ECCLESIOLOGIST 125 ECHINUS a Ecclesiologist (ek-klē'zi-ol"ō-jist), n. One and other bodies. E. Naucrates (the pilot species are remarkable for the singularforms versed in ecclesiology. sucking-fish) is employed by the fisher- of their stems, which are fluted and ribbed Ecclesiology (ek-klē'zi-ol"o-ji), n. [Gr. ek- men of the coast of Mozambique to take or tuberculated. klēsia, an assembly, a church, and logos, dis- marine turtles. A ring is fastened to the The stiff spines are course. The science of antiquities as ap- tail, and a rope being attached to it, the in clusters on plied to churches and other ecclesiastical sucking-fish is carried out by the fishermen woolly cushions. foundations; the science and theory of in their boat, in a vessel" of water, and The flowers are church building and decoration. thrown into the sea where the turtles resort. large and showy. It will furnish future writers in the history and In endeavouring to make its escape the fish They are frequentecclesiology of Ireland with a most valuable store- attaches itself to the nearest turtle; and as ly met with in culhouse of information. Athenaum. its adhesive powers are strong, both are tivation. Eccope (eksko-pē), n. (Gr. ek, out, and hauled in together. Another species is the Echmococcus (ēkopto, to cut.] In surg. the act of cutting E. Remora, the common remora or suck kin'o-kok"kus), n. out; specifically, a perpendicular division ing-fish. See REMORA. pl. Echinococci (eof the cranium by a cutting instrument. Echeveria (ech-e-vēr'i-a), n. A genus of kin'o-kok"si), n. Eccoprotic (ek-ko-prot'ik), a. (Gr. ek, succulent plants, nat. order Crassulaceæ, [Gr. echinos, out, from, and kopros, dung! Having the chiefly natives of Mexico. The leaves are hedgehog, and kokquality of promoting alvine discharges; lax- glaucous, generally spathulate. The brightly Variegated-Powered Echino- kos, a berry.). In ative; loosening; gently cathartic. coloured flowers are in loose racemes. The cactus (E. centeterius). physiol. one of the Eccoprotic (ek-kop-rot'ik), n. A medi- species are placed by some botanists in larval forms (scolicine which purges gently, or which tends Cotyledon. Many of them are in cultivation ces) of the tape - worm of the dog (Tænia to promote evacuations by stool; a mild in England, and they are esteemed as in- Echinococcus), commonly known as hydacathartic. cluding some of the most interesting and tids, which occur in man, commonly in the Eccremocarpus (ek'kre - mo- kär" pus), n. beautiful of greenhouse succulent plants. liver, and cause serious disease. (Gr: ekkremēs, hanging from or upon, and E. secunda and E. glauca are particularly Echinoderm (e-kino-dérm), n. (Gr. echinos, karpos, fruit.] A genus of climbing shrubs, ornamental dwarf herbaceous species. a hedgehog, and derma, skin.] A marine nat order Bignoniaceæ, containing three Echevette (ásh-vet), n. [Fr.) A small animal of the class Echinodermata. species, natives of South America. They hank, the tenth part of a large skein of cot- Echinodermal (e-kin'ö-derm-al), a. Relathave twice-pinnatisect leaves with small ton thread or yarn, and the twenty-second ing to the Echinodermata. membranaceous leaflets, and green or yel- part of an ordinary skein of wool. The harder, spine-clad, or echinodermal species, low, five-lobed flowers. E. scaber is culti- | Echidna (ē-kid'na), n. A genus of Austravated as an ornamental creeper. lian monotrematous, toothless mammals, the extreme complexity and diversity of their con stituent parts. in size and general appearance resembling Eccrinology (ek-krin-ol'o-ji), n. (Gr. ekkri Prof. Owen, ni, to separate, to strain off, and logos, dis- a large hedgehog, excepting that the spines Echinodermata (e-kin'ō-der"ma-ta), n. pl. course.) In physiol. a treatise on the secre are longer, and the muzzle is protracted and A class of invertebrated animals charactertions of the body. slender, with a small aperture at the ex ized by having a tough integument in which Eccrisis (ekskri-sis), n. (Gr. ek, out, and tremity for the protrusion of a long flexible lime is deposited as granules (as in the krino, to separate. In med. excretion of tongue. The habits of Echidna are noctur- star-fish and sea-cucumber), or so as to any excrementitious or morbific matter. nal; it burrows, having short strong legs form a rigid test like that of the sea-urchin; Eccyesis (ek-ki-7'sis), n. [Gr. ekkyeo, to be with five toes, and feeds on insects, which and by the radial arrangement of all the pregnant.) In obstetrics, extra-uterine fæeta- it catches by protruding its long sticky parts of the adult, except the digestive tion; imperfect fætation in some organ tongue. It is nearly allied to the Ornitho- system of the sea-urchin. A water system, exterior to the uterus, as in one of the rhynchus. One species (E. hystrix), from usually communicating with the exterior, ovaria, the Fallopian tube, or the cavity of its appearance, is popularly known as the opens into the ambulacra or tubular feet, the abdomen. Porcupine Ant-eater. Another species is which are the locomotive organs, and are Ecderon (ek'de-ron), n. [Gr. ek, out, and the E. setosa. In several anatomical points put into use by being distended with fluid. deros, skin.) The outer layer of the integu- the Echidna strikingly resembles the birds. Their development is accompanied with ment; the epithelial layer of mucous mem- Echidnine (ē-kid'nin), n. [Gr. echidna, an metamorphosis, and the embryo shows a brane; the epidermal layer of the skin: the adder.) Serpent poison; the secretion from distinctly bilateral aspect. On this account, endoderm is the deeper, dermal layer. the poison glands of the viper and other and because the adult arises as a secondary Ecdysis (ek'di-sis), n. [Gr. ekdysis, a getting serpents. Echidnine is a clear, viscid, growth within the primitive embryo, the out, from ekdyo, to strip off-ek, out of, and neutral, yellowish fluid, containing albu Echinodermata are now removed from the dyő, to enter.] The act of putting off, com- men, mucus, fatty matter, and a yellow Cuvierian Radiata, and classed with the ing out of, or emerging; the act of shedding colouring principle; and among its salts, Scolecida in the sub-kingdom Annuloida. or casting an outer coat or integument, as phosphates and chlorides. Associated with The sexes are distinct. The class is divided in the case of serpents, certain insects, &c.: the albumen is a peculiar nitrogenous body, into seven orders — the Echinoidea (seachiefly a zoological term. to which the name echidnine is more parti urchins), Asteroidea (star-fishes), OphiuroiEchancrure (a-shan-krür), n. A French cularly applied. The poisonous bag of a dea (sand-stars and brittle-stars), Crinoidea word employed by anatomists to designate viper seldom contains more than 2 grains (feather-stars), Cystidea (extinct), Blastoidepressions and notches of various shapes, of the poisonous liquid: oto of a grain is dea (extinct), and Holothuroidea (sea-cuobserved on the surface or edges of bones. sufficient to kill a small bird. cumbers). All are marine. Dunglison. Echimyd (e-ki'mid), n. An individual of the Echinodermatous (e-kin'ö-dér" ma-tus), a. Echet pron. Each; every. Chaucer. genus Echimys (which see). Same as Echinodermal. Echet v.t. (See EKE.) To add ; to add to; Echimyna (e-ki-mi'na), n. pl. A sub-family Echinoidea (e-kin-oid'é-a), n. pl. [Gr. echinos, to increase. To eche it and to draw it out of the rodent sub-order Hystricidæ, of which a hedgehog, and eidos, form.] An order in length.' Shak. the genus Echimys is the type. The ground of Echinodermata, comprising the seaEchea (ek'e-a), n. pl. [Gr., from écheo, to pig belongs also to this sub-family. See urchins. sound. ] In ancient arch. the name which ECHIMYS. Echinomys (e-kin'ō-mis), n. See ECHIMYS. the ancients gave to the sonorous vases of Echimys (ē-ki'mis), n. [Gr. echinos, a hedge- Echinophora (é-kin-of'o-ra), n. [Gr. echinos, bronze or earth, of a bell-like shape, which hog, and mys, a mouse.) A genus of South a hedgehog, and phero, to bear.) A genus they used in the construction of their American rodent quadrupeds, correspond of hardy herbaceous perennials, nat. order theatres to give greater power to the voices ing in some of their characters with dor- I'mbelliferæ, more or less covered with of their actors. mice, but differing from them in having the spines, especially at the base of the flowers. Echelon (e'she-lon), n. [Fr., from échelle ; tail scaly, and the fur coarse and mingled The species are found in the Mediterranean Pr. escala; L. scala, a ladder.) Milit. the with flattened spines. Some of the species region. One species is said to have been position of an army in the form of steps, or are known as spiny rats, the family being found in the south of England. with one division more advanced than an- allied to the porcupines. Written also Echinops (ē-kin'ops), n. [Gr. echinos, a other. The word echelon is used also in Echinomys. hedgehog, and opsis, appearance.) A genus reference to nautical manoeuvres. When a Echinate, Echinated (e-kin'āt, ē-kin'āt-ed), of plants, nat, order Compositæ. The species fleet is in echelon it presents a wedge-form a. [L echinus, a hedgehog) Set with are annual, but chiefly perennial plants. to the enemy, so that the bow-guns and prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; having One species is known by the name of the broadsides of the several ships can mutually sharp points ; bristled; as, an echinated globe-thistle; the pubescence of another defend each other. pericarp. forms the substance called Spanish tinder. Echeloned (esh'e-lond), a. Noting an army Echinidæ (ē-kin'i-dē), n. pl. [Gr. echinos, a Echinorhynchus (e-kin'o-ring'kus), n. [Gr. formed in echelon. hedgehog, and eidos, resemblance.) A family echinos, a hedgehog, and rhynchos, snout. ] Echeneididæ (e-ken'e-id"i-dė), n. pl. [See of invertebrates comprehending those mar- A genus of intestinal worms, the only memECHENEIS.) The sucking-fish or remora ine animals popularly known by the name bers of the Acanthocephala, or thorn-headed family, a sub-family of teleostean fishes, of sea-eggs or sea-urchins. See ECHINUS. family, living in the digestive organs of which resemble in general character the Echinidan (e-kin'i-dan), n. An animal of vertebrated animals, and sometimes found Gadidæ, and which, as the species have in the family Echinidæ. in the abdominal cavity. general no spines in the rays of the fins, Echinital (e-kin'ît-al), a. Relating to or Echinostachys (ē-ki-nos'ta-kis), n. (Gr. have been placed in the order Anacanthini. like an echinite or the echinites. echinos, a hedgehog, and stachys, a head of See ECHENEIS. Echinite (ē-kin'it), 12. (See ECHINUS.) A flowers.) A genus of fossil plants found in Echeneis (ek-e-nē'is), n., [Gr. echenēis, the fossil sea-urchin or cidaris. These fossils the new red sandstone, supposed to be akin remora or sucking-fish (supposed to have vary greatly in form and structure, and are to the Typhaceæ, or reed-maces. the power of holding ships back), from echo, accordingly arranged into many sub-genera. Echinozoa (ē-ki'no-zō“a), n. Same as Annuto bold, and naus, a ship.) A genus of fishes They are found in all formations, but they loida. remarkable for having the top of the head are most abundant and best preserved in Echinulate (e-kin'ü-lát), a. (See ECHINUS.) flattened and occupied by a laminated disc, the chalk, some being exceedingly beauti- In bot. possessing spines. composed of numerous transverse cartila- ful. Echinus (e-kin'us), n. (L.; Gr. echinos, a ginous plates, the edges of which are spiny, Echinocactus (e-kin'ő-kak-tus), n. [Gr. hedgehog, also a sea-urchin.) A genus of and directed obliquely backwards. echinos, a hedgehog, and kaktos, a prickly annuloids, constituting the type of the class means of this apparatus these fishes attach plant.) A genus of cactaceous plants, inha- Echinodermata. The body is covered with a themselves to ships, large fishes as sharks, biting Mexico and South America. The test or shell, often beset with movable spines By ECHIUM 126 ECONOMIC S M S or prickles. The test consists of ten meri. At the parting the moon, which totally or partially hides dional zones or double rows of calcareous All the church echoed. Shak, the sun's disc; an eclipse of the moon is plates fitting each other accurately. In five 2. To be sounded back. “Echoing noise.' occasioned by the shadow of the earth, of the zones there are little apertures for the Blackmore. which falls on it and obscures it in whole Sounds which echo farther west or in part, but does not entirely conceal it. Than your sires' 'Islands of the Blest.' Byron. The number of eclipses of the sun and moon 3. To produce a sound that reverberates; to cannot be fewer than two nor more than give out a loud sound. seven in one year. The most usual number Drums and trumpets echo loudly, Wave the crimson banners proudly Longfellow. Dryden. i own sentiments or opinion. Sea-urchin (Echinus esculentus). They would have echoed the praises of the men whom they envied, and then have sent to the news. papers libels upon them. Macaulay. protrusion of muscular tubes, which serve as The mouth is armed with calcareous Echometer (e-kom'et-ér), n. feet. [Gr. échos, teeth, and opens into a gullet, which con sound, and metron, measure.) In music, a 1, Solar Eclipse. 2, Lunar Eclipse. ducts to a distinct stomach, whence pro serving to measure the duration of sounds S, Sun. M, Moon. E, Earth. ceeds a convoluted intestine terminating in x, Umbra, or total and to find their intervals and ratios. obscuration. , Penumbra, or partial obscuration. a vent. It is popularly called the Sea- Echometry (e-kom'et-ri), n. 1. The art or urchin or Sea-egg. There are several species, and some of them eatable.- 3. In bot. a act of measuring the duration of sounds. is four, and it is rare to have more than six. prickly head or 2. The art of constructing vaults to produce Jupiter's satellites are eclipsed by passing echoes. through his shadow, and they frequently top of a plant; Eclaircise (e-klár’siz), v.t. pret. & pp. eclair pass over his disc and eclipse a portion of an echinated pericarp.-4. In cised; ppr. eclaircising. [Fr. éclaircir, from his surface. See OCCULTATION.- Annular clair, clear. See CLEAR.) To make clear; and central eclipses. arch, an orna See ANNULAR. to explain; to clear up what is not under 2. Darkness; obscuration; as, his glory has ment of the stood or misunderstood. (Rare.) suffered an eclipse. form of an Echinus. egg, alternating Éclaircissement (a-klár-sis-män), n. [Fr.) All the posterity of our first parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life. Ralegh. Explanation; the clearing up of anything with an anchor-shaped or dart-shaped or He (Earl Hakon) was zealous, in season and out of nament, p.culiar to the ovolo moulding, not before understood. season, to bring back those who in that eclipse of the whence that moulding is sometimes called Nay, madam, you shall stay ... till he has made old faith had either gone over to Christianity or preechinus. an éclaircissement of his love to you. Il'yckerly. ferred to 'trust in themselves,' to what he considered the true fold. Edin. Rev. Echium (ek'i-um), n. [Gr. echion, from echis, Eclampsy (ek-lamp'si), n. [Gr. eklampsis, a the viper.] Viper's bugloss, a genus of shining, from eklampo, to shine-ek, out, and Eclipse (e-klips'), v.t. pret. & pp. eclipsed; plants, nat. order Boraginaceæ. Above fifty lampo, shine.] A flashing of light before ppr. eclipsing. 1. To cause the obscuration species have been described. They are large the eyes; rapid convulsive motions, espe of; to darken or hide, as a heavenly body; hispid or scabrous herbs, with entire leaves cially of the mouth, eyelids, and fingers - as, the moon eclipses the sun.-2. To cloud; and white, red, or blue flowers in racemes. symptomatic of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy to darken; to obscure; to throw into the They are natives of Southern Europe and itself. shade; to degrade; to disgrace. Western Asia. E. vulgare is common on Éclat (ā-klä), n. (Fr., a splinter, noise, cla- I, therefore, for the moment, omit all inquiry how waste ground and on light soils in England; mour, brightness, magnificence from éclater, far the Mariolatry of the early Church did indeed eclipse Christ. Ruskin. E. plantagineum is a native of Jersey. to split, to shiver, to make a great noise, to Another now hath to himself engrossd Echo (eko), n. [L. echo; Gr. echo, from éche, sparkle, to glitter; Pr. esclatar, Walloon All pow'r, and us eclipsed. Milton a sound of any sort, whence écheo, to sound.s sklate, from 0.H.G. skleizan, G. schleissen, 1. A sound reflected or reverberated from a schlitzen, to split. It is easy to understand 3. To extinguish. "Born to eclipse thy life.' solid boly; sound returned ; repercussion Shak. [Rare ] how, the sense of breaking into shivers, of sound; as, an echo from a distant hill. passes into those of making a noise and Eclipse (ē-klips), v.i. To suffer an eclipse. The babbling echo mocks the hounds, shining brilliantly.) 1. A burst, as of ap The labouring moon Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns, Milton. plause; acclamation; approbation; as, his Edipses at their charms. As if a double hunt were heard at once. Shak. speech was received with great éclat. Ecliptic (e-klip'tik), n. [Fr. écliptique; L Which makes appear the songs I made 2. Brilliancy of success; splendour of effect; linea ecliptica, the ecliptic line, or line in As echoes out of weaker times. Tennyson. lustre; as, the éclat of a great achievement. which eclipses take place. See ECLIPTIC, Sound being produced by waves or pulses 3. Renown; glory. a.) 1. A great circle of the sphere supposed of the air, when such a wave meets an opposing surface, as a wall, it is reflected like Yet the éclat it gave was enough to turn the head to be drawn through the middle of the of a man less presumptuous than Egmont. zodiac, making an angle with the equinoctial light and proceeds in another direction, and Prescott. of about 23° 27', which is the sun's greatest the sound so heard is an echo. When the Eclectic (ek-lek’tik), a. (Gr. eklektikos-- ex, declination. The ecliptic is the apparent echo of a soun 1 returns to the point whence and lego, to choose.) Selecting; choosing; path of the sun, but as in reality it is the the sound orig'nated, the reflecting surface not original nor following any one model or earth which moves, the ecliptic is the path is at right angles to a line drawn to it from leader, but choosing at will from the doc- or way among the fixed stars which the that point. An oblique surface sends the trines, works, &c., of others; specifically earth in its orbit appears to describe to an echo of a sound off in another direction, so applied to certain philoso, hers of antiquity eye placed in the sun. The angle of inclin. that it may be heard elsewhere, though not who did not attach themselves to any par- ation of the equator and ecliptic is called at the point where the sound originated. ticular sect, but selected from the opinions the obliquity of the ecliptic. It has been If the direct and reflected sounds succeed and principles of each what they thought subject to a small irregular diminution since each o her with great rapidity, which hap- solid and good. the time of the earliest observations on pens when the reflecting surface is near, the Eclectic (ek-lek'tik), n. One who follows an record. In 1839 it was 23° 27' 46". Its mean echo only clouds the original sound, but is eclectic method in philosophy, science, re- diminution per century is about 48".-2. In not heard distinctly, and it is such indistinct ligion, and the like; specifically, (a) a fol- geog. a great circle on the terrestrial globe, echoes which interfere with the hearing in lower of the ancient eclectic philosophy. See answering to and falling within the plane churches and other large buildings. An the adjective. (6) A Christian who believed of the celestial ecliptic. - Plane of the eclipinterval of about one-ninth of a second is the doctrine of Plato conformable to the tic, an imaginary plane which passes through necessary to discriminate two successive spirit of the gospel. the ecliptic, and is indefinitely extended. sounds; and as sound passes through the Eclectically (ek-lek'tik-al-li), adv. By way In this plane the earth's orbit is situated. atmosphere at the rate of about 1125 feet of choosing or selecting; in the manner of Ecliptic (e-klip'tik), a. [L. eclipticus; Gr. in a second, 1 of 1125. or about 62 feet, will the eclectical philosophers. ekleiptikos, belonging to eclipse. See be the least distance at which an echó can Eclecticism (ek-lek'ti-sizm), n. The act, ECLIPSE.) 1. Pertaining to or described by be heard. The wall of a house or the ram- doctrine, or practice of an eclectic. the ecliptic.- 2. Pertaining to an eclipse. part of a city, the surface of a cloud, a wood, Eclectism (ek-lek'tizm), n. [Fr. eclectisme.] Ecliptic conjunction, is when the moon is rocks, mountains, valleys, produce echoes. Same as Eclecticism. in conjunction with the sun at the time of Some echoes are remarkable for their fre- Eclegm (ek-lem'), n. [L. ecligma; Gr. ek. new moon, both luminaries having then the quency of repetition.-2. In class. myth. a leigma, an electuary-ek, out, up, and leicho, same longitude or right ascension. — Ecliptic nymph, the anghter of the Air and Earth, tolick.) A medicine made by the incor- limits, the greatest distances at which the who, for love of Narcissus, pined away till poration of oils with syrups. moon can be fror her nodes in order that no hing remained of her but her voice. Eclipsareon (ē- klip-sā'rē-on), n. [See an eclipse of the sun or moon may happen. Sweet I cho, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen ECLIPSE.) An instrument for explaining Eclogue (ek'log), n. [Gr. ekloge, choice, se- Milton. lection, from eklego, to select.). In poetry, 3. In arch. a vault or arch for redoubling Eclipse (e-klips), n. [L. eclipsis; Gr. ekleip- a pastoral composition, in which shepherds sounds.-4. Repetition with assent; close sis, defect, from ekleipo, to fail-ek, cut, and are introduced conversing with each other; imitation either in words or sentiments. leipo, to leave.] 1. In astron. an intercep- a bucolic; as, the eclogues of Virgil. 5. In inusic, the repetition of a melodic tion or obscuration of the light of the sun, Eclysis (ek'li-sis), n. [Gr. ek, out, and lyó, phrase, frequently written for the organ on moon, or other luminous body, by the inter- to loose.) In inusic, depression; the loweraccount of the facility with which it can be vention of some other body either between ing of the sound of a string three quarter produced by the stops. it and the eye or between the luminous body tones. Echo (e'ko). v.i 1. To resound; to reflect and that illuminated by it; thus, an eclipse Economic, Economical(ē-kon-om'ik, e-konsound; as, the hall echoed with acclamations. of the sun is caused by the intervention of om'ik-al), a. (See ECONOMY.] 1.1 Relating ECONOMICALLY 127 ECTYPE In an or pertaining to the household; domestic. being one of the greatest importance to the al), a. 1. Pertaining to or resulting from 'In this economical misfortune'(of ill-assorted artist. ecstasy; suspending the senses; entrancing. matrimony). Milton.—2. Pertaining to the Écossaise (X-kos-az), 1. (Fr.) Dance music regulation of household concerns. In pensive trance, and anguish, and ecstatic fit. in the Scotch style. Milton. And doth employ her economic art, Ecostate (e-kos’tāt), a. In bot. a term ap- 2. Rapturous; transporting; ravishing; deAnd busy care, her household to preserve. plied to leaves that have no central rib or Sir y Davies. lightful beyond measure; as, ecstatic bliss costa. 3. Managing domestic or public pecuniary or joy. “Ecstatic dreams.' Pope.-3. t Tend. concerns with frugality; as, an economical Écoute (ā-köt), n. [Fr., a place for listening.) ing to external objects. housekeeper; an economical minister or In fort. a small gallery made in front of the I find in me a great deal of ecstatical love, which administration.-4. Frugal; regulated by glacis for the shelter of troops designed to continually carries me out to good without myself. Norris. frugality: not wasteful or extravagant; as, annoy or interrupt the miners of the enemy. an economical use of money. With econo Ecphasist (ek'fa-sis), n. (Gr. ekphasis, a de Ecstatically (ek-stat'ik-al-li), adv. mic care to save a pittance.' Harte. --5. Re- claration-ek, out, and phēmi, to declare.) ecstatic manner; ravishingly; rapturously. lating to the science of economics, or the An explicit declaration. Ectasis (ek'ta-sis), n. (Gr. ektasis, extension, pecuniary and other productive resources Ecphlysis (ek’fli-sis), n (Gr. ekphlyző, to from ekteino, to stretch out-ek, out, and of a country; relating to the means of living. būbble up.). In pathol. vesicular eruption, teino, to stretch.) In rhet. the lengthening confined in its action to the surface. of a syllable from short to long. There was no economical distress in England to Palfrey. Ecphonemat (ek-fo-nē'ma), n. [Gr. ekphoprompt the enterprises of colonization. Ecthlipsis (ek-thlips'is), n. (Gr. ekthlipsis, nema, , a thing called out -- ek, out, and a squeezing out, from ekthlibo-ek, out, and --- Economical geology, a branch of the science phönē, a sound, the voice.] In rhet. a break- thlibo, to press. ] In Latin pros. the elision of geology which aims at its practical appli ing out of the voice with some interjectional of the final syllable of a word ending in m, cation for the benefit of mankind.-SYN. particle. Frugal, sparing, saving, thrifty, careful. when the next word begins with a vowel. Ecphonesist(ek-fő-ne'sis), n. (Gr. ekphonēsis, Ecthyma (ek'thi-ma or ek-thi'ma), n. (Gr. Economically (e-kon-om'ik-al-li), adv. With pronunciation, exclamation-ek, out, and ekthyma, a pustule.) In pathol. an eruption economy; with frugality. phónē, the voice.] An animated or passion- of pimples. Economics (e-kon-om'iks), n. 1. The science ate exclamation. Ectoblast (ek'to-blast), n. (Gr. ektos, outof household affairs or of domestic manage- Ecphora (ek'fo-ra), n. (Gr. ek, out, and phero. side, and blastos, bud, germ.) In physiol. ment.--2. The science of the useful applica to carry.) In arch. the projection of any the membrane composing the walls of a cell, tion of the wealth or material resources of member or moulding before the face of the as distinguished from inesoblast, the nucleus, a country; political economy. Politics and member or moulding next below it. entoblast, the nucleolus, and from entosthoeconomics Knox. blast, the cell within the nucleolus. Economist (e-kon'om-ist), n. 1. One who Ecphractic (ek-frak’tik), a. (Gr. ekphrakti kos, fit to clear obstructions, from ekphrasso, Ectocarpaceæ, Ectocarpeæ (ek'tó-kär-pā". manages domestic or other concerns with to clear away obstructions-ek, out, and se-ė, ek-to-kär' pēcē), n. pl. [Gr. ektos, outfrugality; one who expends money, time, or phrassi, to inclose.) In med. serving to side, and karpos, fruit.] A family of sealabour judiciously, and without waste. dissolve or attenuate, and so to remove ob- weeds of the order Fucoidex. They are Very few people are good economists of their fortune, and still fewer of their tiine. Lord Chesterfield. Ecphractic (ek-frak'tik), n. structions; deobstruent. olive-coloured, articulated, Alliform, with A medicine sporanges (producing ciliated zoospores) 2. One versed in economics or the science which dissolves or attenuates viscid matter either external, attached to the jointed of political economy. and removes obstructions. ramuli, or formed out of some of the interEconomization (e-kon'om-iz-ā"shon), n. The Ecphyma (ek'i-ma), n. (Gr. ekphyö, to spring stitial cells. act or practice of economizing or managing out.] In pathol. a cutaneous excrescence, Ectocyst (ek’to-sist), n. (Gr. ektos, outside, fruzally, or to the best effect; the result of as a caruncle. and kystis, a bladder.) In zool. the external economizing; economy; saving. Ecpyesis (ek-pi-7'sis), n. (Gr. ekpyeo, to sup- integumentary layer of the Polyzoa. To the extent that augmentation of mass results in purate.) In pathol. a humid scall; impetigo. Ectoderm (ek’to-derm), n. (Gr. ektos, outa greater retention of heat, it effects an economiza. Écraseur (å-krä-zer), n. (Fr. écraser, to side, and derma, skin.) In anat. an outer tion of force. H. Spencer layer or membrane, as the epidermal layer Economize (e-kon'om-iz), v.i. pret. & pp. of the skin. removing tumours or malignant growths. economized; ppr. economizing. To manage It consists of a fine chain, which is placed The Cælenterata may be defined as animals whose pecuniary concerns with frugality; to make round the base of the tumour and gradually alimentary canal communicates freely with the general a prudent use of money, or of the means of tightened by a screw or rack till it passes cavity of the body (somatic cavity'). The body is saving or acquiring property. He does not essentially composed of two layers or membranes, an through the structure. It is used in cases outer layer or ectoderm, and an inner layer or endo. know how to economize.' Smart. derin. of cancer of the tongue, of piles, polypi, &c. Economize (e-kon'om-iz), v.t. To use with Ecstasis (ek'sta-sis), n. [Gr.) Ecstasy. H. A. Nicholson. prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to Ecstasize (ek'sta-siz), v. t. To fill with ecstasy Ectodermal, Ectodermic(ek-to-dérm'al,ekeconomize one's income. to-derm'ik), a. Belonging to the ectoderm. . F. Butler. eu manage and economize the use of circulating Ecstasy (ek'sta:si), n. (Gr. ekstasis, from Ectoparasite (ek-to-para-sit), 1.. [Gr. ektos, medium. outside, and E. parasite.) A parasitic aniexistēmi, to change, to put out of place-ex, mal infesting the outside of animals, as opEconomy (e-kon'o-mi), n. (L. æconomia, Gr. and histēmi, to stand. oikonomia-oikos, house, and nomos, law, posed to endoparasite, which lives in the Note the fetichism wrapped up in the etymologies body. rule.) 1. The management, regulation, and of these Greek words. Catalepsy, a seizing of the Ectopia, Ectopy (ek-toʻpi-a, ek'to-pi),, n. government of a household; especially, the body by some spirit or demon, who holds it rigid. management of the pecuniary concerns of Ecstasy, a dis, lacement or reinoval of the soul from (Gr. ek, out, and topos, place.) In pathol. a household. Hence--2. A frugal and judi the body, into which the demon enters and causes morbid displacement of parts, usually concious use of money: that management which strange laughing, crying, or contortions. It is not genital; as, ectopy of the heart or of the metaphor, but the literal belief in a ghost-world, which bladder. expends money to advantage and incurs no has given rise to such words as these, and to such waste; frugality in the necessary expendi- expressions as, 'a man beside himself or transported.' Ectosarc (ek'to-särk), n. (Gr. ektos, outside, lure of money. It differs from parsimony, John Fiske.] and sarx, sarkos, 1 esh.) In zool. the outer which implies an improper saving of ex 1. A state in which the mind is carried away transparent sarcode-layer of certain rhizopense. Economy includes also a prudent as it were from the body; a trance; a state pods, such as the Ameba. in which the functions of the senses are sus Ectozoa (ek'to-zo-a), n. pl. (Gr. ektos, outmanagement of all the means by which proper y is saved or accumulated, a judicious pended by the contemplation of some extra- side, and zoon, a living being.) A term inapplication of time, of labour, and of the ordinary or supernatural object. troduced in contradistinction to Entozoa, to designate those parasites, as lice, ticks, instruments of labour. Whether what we call ecstasy be not dreaming with many entomostracous crustaceans, &c., I have no o:her notion of economy than that it is our eyes open, I leave to be examined. Locke. which infest the external parts of other the parent of liberty and ease. Stift. There were at that period some houses built upon animals. The term merely has reference to 3. The disposition or arrangement of any a certain high bank called Rialtn, and the boat being the habitation of the animals, and does not work; the system of rules and regulations when St. Mark, snatched into ecstasy, hearil the express any affinity among the animals inwhich control any work, whether divine or voice of an angel saying to him, 'Peace be to thee, cluded in it human Mark; here shall thy body rest.' Ruskin. Ectropium (ek-tro'pi-um), n. (Gr. ektrepī, This economy must be observed in the minutest 2. Excessive joy; rapture; a degree of de- to evert.) In pathol. an unnatural eversion parts of an epic poem. Dryden. light that arrests the whole mind; excessive of the eyelids. Specifically, (a) the operations of nature in elevation and absorption of mind; extreme Ectrotic (ek-trot’ik), a. (Gr. ektrotikos, from the generation, nutrition, and preservation delight; as, a pleasing ecstasy; the ecstasy ektitrösko, to cause abortion--ek, out, and of animals and plants; the regular, harmo. of love. titrosko, to wound.] In med. preventing the nious system in accordance with which the He on the tender grass development or causing the abortion of a functions of living animals and plants are Would sit and hearken even to ecstasy. Villon. disease; as, the ectrotic method of treatment performed; as, the animal economy; the 3.f Excessive grief or anxiety. of small-pox. vegetable economy. (6) The regulation and Better be with the dead. Ectylotic (ek-ti-lot'ik), a. (Gr. ek, out, and disposition of the internal affairs of a state Than on the torture of the mind to lie tylos, a knot) In med. a term applied to a or nation, or of any departme of govern In restless ecstasy. Shak. substance having a tendency to jo nove calment. losities or indurations of the sk n. 4. Madness; distraction. The Jews already had a Sabbath, which as citizens Ectylotic (ek-ti-lot'ik). 1. In med. any suband subjects of that economy they were obliged to Hinder thein from what this ecstasy stance, as nitrate of silver, having a tenkeep, and did keep. Paicy. Shak. dency to remove callosities or indurations --Domestic economy. See DOMESTIC.-Poli 5. In med. a species of catalepsy, in which of the skin, as warts, &c. tical economy See POLITICAL. the person remembers, after the paroxysm Ectypal (ek-tip'al), a. (See E TYPE.) Taken E converso (é kon-vériso). (L.) On the con- is over, the ideas he had during the fit. from the original; imitated. 'Exemplars trary; on the other hand, Ecstasyt (ek'sta-si), v.t. To fill, as with rap- of all the eclypal copies.' Ellis. Écorché (a kor-shá), n. (Fr.) In painting ture or enthusiasm. Ectype (ek'tip), n. (Gr. ektypos, worked in and sculp. the subjert, man or animal, flayed They were so ecstasied with joy, that they made high relief - ek, out, and typos, stamp, or deprived of its skin, so that the muscu- the heavens ring with triumphant shouts and accla. figure.) 1. A reproduction of, or very close nations. Scott. lar system is exposed for the purposes of resemblance to, an original: opposed to study, the study of the muscular system Ecstatic, Ecstatical (ek-stat'ik, ek-stat'ik- prototype. ECTYPOGRAPHY 128 EDGED they Some regarded him (Klopstock) as an edype of the by edder; to fasten the tops of hedge-stakes and the gravigrade family, including the exancient prophets. EN Cyc. tinct megatherium, mylodon, &c.; these, 2. In arch. a copy in relief or embossed. Edder (ed'dér), 1. An adder. (Obsolete and like the sloths, being South American. The Ectypography (ek-tip-ogʻra-fi), n. [Gr. ek- Scotch.) Entomophaga include the hairy ant-eater typos, worked in relief, and graphó, to Eddish, Eadish (ed'dish), n. [A. Sax. edisc, (Myrmecophaga), the scaly pangolin(Manis), write.) A method of etching in which the aftermath, probably from ed, a pretix signi- the cuirassed armadilloes (Dasypus), and lines are in relief upon the plate instead of fying again, anew, as the L. re, whence the extinct glyptodon. The food of this being sunk into it. edgift, a restoration, edneowung, a renew- second group is chiefly insects, but they also Ecumenic, Ecumenical (e-kū-men'ik, e-kū- ing, &c. Wedgwood regards it as another eat carrion and worms. The pangolins and men'ik-al), a. (L ecumenicus, Gr. oikoumeni- form of eatage ] The latter pasture or grass Myrmecophaga are toothless; the others kos, pertaining to all the habitable earth, that comes after mowing or reaping. Called have various numbers of teeth. from oikos, a habitation] General; univer- also Eagra88, Earsh, Etch. Edentate, Edentated (e-dent’át, e-dentätsal; as, ecumenical council, that is, an eccle- Eddish, commonly explained in the sense of after. ed), a. (L. edentatus, pp. of edento, to knock siastical council regarded as representing math, which gives too contined a signification. The out the teeth--e, ex, out of, and dens, dentis, the whole Christian Church, or the Catholic meaning is pasturage, or the eatable growth of either a tooth.) Destitute or deprived of teeth; Wedgwood. Church as opposed to heretical and merely grass or corn field. specifically, pertaining to the Edentata local sects. The designation is claimed by Eddoes, Edders (ed'döz, ed'derz), n. A name Edentate (e-dent'at), n. An animal having Roman Catholics as appropriate to their given by the negroes of the Gold Coast to no fore teeth, as the armadillo. church the Caladium esculentum, an esculent root. Edentationt (e-dent-a'shon), n. A depriving Écurie (ā-kü-rē), n. (Fr.) A stable; a covered Eddy (ed'di), n. [Usually referred to A. Sax. of teeth. place for horses. ed, again, back, and ea, water, but by Wedg. Edentulous (ē-dentū-lus), a. [L. e, out, and Eczema (ekʼzē-ma), n. [Gr., from ekzeo, to wood to Icel, ytha, a whirlpool, from ytha, to dens, dentis, a tooth.) Without teeth; toothboil out-ek, out, and zeó, to boil.) An boil, to rush; A. Sax. yth, a wave, flood, less. Prof. Ouen. eruptive disease of the skin, preceded by ythian, to fluctuate, to overthrow.) 1. A Edge (ej), n. (A. Sax. ecg, edge, whence eegian, redness, heat, and itching of the part. In current of air or water running back, or in eggian, to sharpen, to excite, to egg; cog. G. course of time the minute vesicles burst a direction contrary to the main stream. ecke, Icel. and Sw. egg, edge, corner; from and discharge a thin acrid fluid, which often Thus, a point of land extending into a river an Indo-European root ak, seen in L. acies, gives rise to excoriation. The severest form checks the water near the shore, and turns an edge, acus, a needle, acuo, to sharpen; of the disease is due to the effect of mer- it back or gives it a circular course. - 2. A Gr. ake, a point, edge; Skr. acri, edge of cury on the system; but the disease is like- whirlpool; a current of water or air moving a sword. See also EAGER.] 1. The sharp wise caused by exposure of the skin to irri- in a circular direction. border, the thin cutting side of an instrutating substances, as in the case of the hands And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. Dryder, ment; as, the edge of an axe, razor, knife, of grocers from working amongst raw sugars. Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play, sword, or scythe.--2. The abrupt border or - Eczema epizootica, foot-and-mouth dis Addison. margin of anything; the brink; as, the edge ease (which see). Eddy (ed'di), v.i. pret. & pp. eddied; ppr. of the table; the edge of a book, the edge Eczematous (ek-ze'ma-tus), a. Pertaining eddying. To move circularly, or as an eddy. of a precipice.-3. The border or part adjato or produced by eczema; as, eczematous As they looked down upon the tumult of the people, cent to a line of division; the part nearest eruptions. decpening and eddying in the wide square some limit; the commencement or early -Ed. An affix to weak or new verbs, showing uttered above them the sentence of warning-'Christ part; the beginning; as, the edge of a field; shall come.' Ruskin, past time--an attenuated form of ded or the edge of evening. did. This affix is a relic of reduplication, Eddy (ed'di), v.t. pret. & pp. eddied; ppr. the oldest method of forming the past tense eddying. To cause to move in an eddy; to The new general, unacquainted with his army, and on the edge of winter, would not hastily oppose them. of Aryan verbs. See DID. Its identity with collect as into an eddy. Milton. did is very clearly seen in Gothic salbo The circling mountains addy in 4. Sharpness of mind or appetite; keenness; dod-um, ta mi-ded-um, where Gothic déd= From the bare wild the dissipated storm. intenseness of desire; fitness for action or Thomson. English did, and um = we, wherefore salbo- Eddy (ed'di), a. Whirling; moving circularly, operation; as, the edge of appetite or hunger. ded-um= salve-did-we, tami-ded-um= tame Eddy currents.' Hackluyt. 'Eddy winds.' Silence and solitude set an edge on the genius. did-we. Dryden. Dryden. F.dacious (e-da'shus), a. (L. edax, from edo, Eddy-water (ed'di-wa-tér), n. Naut. the When I got health, thou took'st away my life, to eat. ) Eating; given to eating; greedy; water which falls back on the rudder of a And more; for my friends die, My mirth and eige was lost; a blunted knife voracious ship ander sail. Called also Dead-uater. Was of more use than I. G. Herbert. Edaciously (ē-dā'shus-li), adv. Greedily; Eddy-wind (ed'di-wind), n. The wind revoraciously 5. Keenness; sharpness; acrimony; woundturned or beat back from a sail, a mountain, Edaciousness (ē-da'shus-nes), n. Edacity. ing or irritating power. or anything that hinders its passage. Edacity (ē-das'i-ti), n. [L. edacitas, from Edelforsitë (ed'el-for-sit), n. Shak. In mineral. Abate the edge of traitors. edax, from edo, to eat. ) Greediness; vora Slander, a transparent mineral, of a white or grayish city; ravenousness; rapacity. (Rare.) Whose edge is sharper than the sword. Shak. colour, a neutral silicate of lime. If thou have any vendible faculty, nay, if thou have Edelite (ed'e-lit), n. Prehnite (which see). To set the teeth on edge, to cause a tingling but edacity and loquacity, come. Carlyle. or grating sensation in the teeth. -Syn. BorEdaphodont (e-daf'o-dont), n. (Gr. edaphos, Edematous, Edematose, a. See EDEMA der, rim, brink, verge, skirt, margin, brim. foundation, and odous, odontos, a tooth.] TOUS. Edge (ej), v.t. pret. & pp. edged; ppr. edging. One of a group of fossil chimæroid fishes, Eden (e'den), n. (Heb. and Chal. eden, de 1. To sharpen. “To edge her champion's from the greensand chalk and tertiary strata. light, pleasure, a place of pleasure.) The sword.' Dryden. -2. To furnish with an Edda (ed'da), n. (Icel., great-grandmother. garden in which Adam and Eve were placed edge, fringe, or border; as, to edge a flower bed with box. A name given to the book by Bishop Bryn- by God; hence, a delightful region or resi A sword edged with flint. julf Sveinsson, to indicate that it is the dence. Dryden. A long descending train, mother of all Scandinavian poetry. ) A book | Edenic (ē-den'ik), a. Of or pertaining to With rubies edged. Dryden. containing a system of old Scandinavian Eden. mythology, with narratives of exploits of By the memory of Edenic joys 3. To sharpen; to exasperate; to embitter. Forfeit and lost. the gods and heroes and some account E. B. Browning. By such reasonings the simple were blinded and of the religious doctrines of the ancient Edenize (e'den-īz), v.t. To admit into para. the malicious edged. Hayward Scandinavians. 'Saemund, one of the early dise; to confer the joys of paradise upon. 4. To incite; to provoke; to instigate; to Christian priests there (in Iceland), who * Edenized saints.' Davies. (Rare.) urge on; to egg. perhaps had a lingering fondness for Pa- Edental, Edentalous (ē-dental, 7-dent'al Ardour or passion will edge a man forward when ganism, collected certain of their old us), a. Toothless; having no teeth. arguments fail. Ogilvie. pagan songs, just about becoming obsolete Edental (e-dental), n. A member of the 5. To move sideways; to move by little and there--poems or chants of a mythic, pro- order Edentata. little. phetic, mostly all of a religious character; Edentata (e-den-tā'ta), n. pl. That order of Edging by degrees their chairs forwards, they were this is what Norse critics call the Elder or mammals to which sloths, ant-eaters, arma- in a little time got close to one another. Locke. Poctic Edda Edda, a word of uncertain dilloes, &c., belong. Not all are toothless 13 Edge (ej), v.i. To move sideways; to move etymology, is thought to signify Ancestre88. Snorro Sturleson, an Iceland gentleman, an gradually, or so as not to attract notice; to 1 extremely notable personage, educated by 3 advance or retire gradually; as, edge along this Saemund's grandson, took in hand next, When one has made a bad bet, it's best to edge off. near a century afterwards, to put together, Colman. among several other books he wrote, a kind -To edge away (naut.), to decline gradually of prose synopsis of the whole mythology; elucidated by new fragments of traditionary from the shore, or from the line of the course. To edge in with, to draw near to, as a ship verse. This is the Younger or Prose Edda.' Carlyle. Saemund was born in Ice in chasing. - To edge down upon an object, to land about the middle of the eleventh cen approach it in a slanting direction. tury, and died in 1133. The rump bone of a Sturleson was born Edge-bone (ejbon), n. Cow or ox; said to be so named because in in Iceland in 1178, and was assassinated Edentata. there in 1241, on his return from Norway, dressed beef it presents itself edgeways. 1, Skull and (3) Tooth of Chlamydophorus truncatus, Called also Aitch-bone and watch-bone. where he had been Scald or court poet. 2. Skull of Myrmecophaga jubata (Great Ant-eater). Eddas (ed'daz), n. Edged (ejd), p. and a. 1. Furnished with an Same as Eddoes. Edder (ed'der), n. (A. Sax. edor, eder, a the name implies, but the teeth when present edge; sharp; keen. hedige) 1. In agri. such wood as is worked are replaced by a second set only in arma O! turn thy edged sword another way. Shak. into the top of hedge-stakes to bind them dilloes; whilst incisors are rarely, the central 2. Having a border or fringe of a different together. -2. In Scotland, straw-ropes used incisors never present. The teeth are with- substance, colour, &c., from that of the in thatching corn-ricks, transversely to bind out enamel, and are rootless, growing inde- body, as a piece of cloth or a flower, the together the ropes which go over the top of finitely. The Phytophaga or plant-eaters body of which is of one colour and the rim the ricks. are the sloths (Bradypus and Cholapus), of another.-3. In her, applied to an ordi. Edder (ed'der), v.t. To bind or make tight which are exclusively fitted for arboreal life, nary, and noting that the edging is placed this way. EDGELESS 129 EDUCATION 1 only between the ordinary and the field, and Edificatory (ed'i-fi-kā-to-ri), a. Tending to Editorial articles are always anonymous in form. not where it joins the escutcheon. The edification. * An exercise edificatory to the Sir G. C. Lewis. crosses in the union flag are cuged. church.' Bp. Hall. Editorial (ed-i-toʻri-al), n. An article, as in Edgeless (ejles), a. Not sharp; blunt; ob- Edifice (ed'i-lis), n. [L. ædificium, a build- a newspaper, written by the editor; a leadtuse; unfit to cut or penetrate; as, an edge- ing See EDIFY.) A building; a structure; ing article; as, an editorial on the war. lese sword or weapon. a fabric: chiefly applied to elegant houses Editorially (ed-i-to'ri-al-li), adv. In the Edge-longt (ej'long), adv. In the direc- and other large structures. manner or character of an editor. tion of the edge. 'Stuck edge-long into the An edifice too large for him to fill. Editorship (ed'it-ér-ship), n. The business Milton. ground.' Jonson. of an editor; the care and superintendence Edge-rail (ejral), n. A rail placed on edge. Edificial (ed-i-fi'shal), a. Pertaining to an of a publication. The rails of the ordinary railway are laid in edifice or structure; structural. Mansions Editress (ed'it-res), n. A female editor. this way, and are sometimes so named to without any striking edificial attrac- Edituatet (e-dit'ű-át), v.t [L.L. ædituor, distinguish them from the flat-laid rails of tion.' British Critic. from L. ædituus, the keeper of a temple – the tram-road. Edifier (ed'i-fi-ér), n. 1.+ One that builds. @des, a temple, and tucor, to defend. ] To Edge-railway (ejírál-wå), n. A kind of way 2. One who or that which improves another defend or govern, as a house or temple. in which the wheels of the carriages run on by moral or religious instruction. Edriophthalmata (ed'ri-of-thal"ma-ta), n. the edges of iron rails. The wheels are con Edify (ed'i-11), v.t. pret. & pp. edified; ppr. pl. [Gr. (h)edraios, settled, fixed, and ophthalfined to their path by flanges which project edifying. [Fr. édifier, Pr. edifiar, edificar, mo8, the eye.) One of the great divisions about an inch beyond their periphery. See L. ædificare-ædes, a house, and facio, to EDGE-RAIL make. j 1. To build, in a literal sense. (Rare.) Edge-tool (ejstöl), n. 1. An instrument hav. There on a rock of adamant it stood, ing a sharp edge. -2. Fig. a matter danger Resplendent far and wide, Itself of solid diamond edified, ous to deal or sport with. And all around it rolled the fiery flood, You jest: ill.jesting with edge-tools. Tennyson. Southey. Edgewise (ej'wiz), adv. (Edge and wise. ] 2. + To build in or upon; to cover with 1. With the edge turned forward or toward houses. “Countreyes waste, and eke well a particular point; in the direction of the edifyde.' Spenser.-3. To instruct and imedge. -- 2. Sideways; with the side foremost. prove in knowledge generally, and particuEdging (ej'ing), n. 1. That which is added larly in moral and religious knowledge, or on the border or which forms the edge, as in faith and holiness. Edriophthalmata. lace, fringe, trimming, added to a garment Edify one another. 1 Thes. v. 11. 1, Fresh-water shrimp (Gammarus pulex): a, Single for ornament. Bordered with a rosy edg- 4. To convince or persuade. eye. ing.' Dryden. --2. In hort. a row of small You shall hardly edify me that those nations might 2, Head of Cymothoa. b, Cluster of simple eyes. plants set along the border of a flower-bed; not, by the law of nature, have been subdued by any as, an edging of box. nation that had only policy and moral virtue. of the Crustacea, including all those genera Edging-iron (ej'ing-i-érn), n. In gardening, Bacon. which have their eyes sessile, or imbedded a tool consisting of a crescent-shaped steel 5. To benefit; to favour. in the head, and not fixed on a peduncle or blade, fixed by a socket to a wooden handle, My love with words and errors still she feeds; stalk as in the crabs, lobsters, &c. It is Shak. and used for cutting out the outlines of But edifies another with her deeds. divided into three orders, viz. Læmodipoda figures, &c., in turf. Edify (ed'i-fí), v.i. 1. To cause or tend to -abdomen rudimentary, as Cyamus baloEdging-machine (ej'ing-ma-shēn), n. An cause a moral or intellectual improvement; narum (whale-louse); Amphipoda- body adjustable machine tool for dressing irreg- to make people morally better. compressed laterally, abdomen well develular surfaces to given patterns. oped, furnished with limbs, bronchial organs The graver sort dislike all poetry, confined to the thoracic legs, as Gammarus defined; angular. pulex (the common fresh-water shrimp); 2. To be instructed or improved; to become The outlines of their body are sharpe and edgy. Tsopoda--body depressed, abdomen well deR. P. Knight wiser or better. veloped, bronchial organs on the abdominal 2 Keen-tempered; irritable; as, an edgy All you gallants that hope to be saved by your legs. Many genera are parasitic (as Cymotemer. clothes, erdify, edify. Massinger. thoa on fishes), and of the others some live Edibility (ed-i-bil'i-ti), n. Quality or condi- Edifying (ed'i-fi-ing), a. Adapted to instruct. in the sea and some on land, as the common tion of being edible; suitableness for being · Edifying conversation.' L'Estrange. and the sea woodlouse. eaten. Edifyingly (ed'i-fi-ing-li), adv. In an edify- Edriophthalmous (ed'ri-of-thal"mus), a. Edible (ed'i-bl), a. (From L. edo, to eat. ) ing manner. (See EDRIOPHTHALMATA.) Pertaining to Eatable; fit to be enten as food; esculent. Edifyingness (ed'i-fi-ing-nes), n. the Edriophthalmata (which see). "Of fishes some are edible.' Bacon. lity of being edifying. Educability (ed'ū-ka-bil'i-ti), n. Capability Edible (ed'i-bl), n. Anything that may be Edile (ē'dil), n. [L. ædilis, from ædes, a of being educated; capacity for receiving eaten for food; an article of food; a constit- building. ! În Rom. antiq. a magistrate whose instruction. uent of a meal; as, bring forward the edibles. chief business was to superintend buildings Educable (ed'ū-ka-bl), a. That may be eduEdibleness (ed'i-bl-nes), n. The quality of of all kinds, more especially public edifices, cated. being edible. temples, bridges, aqueducts, &c., and who Educate (edū-kāt), v. t. pret. & pp. educated; Edict (e'dikt), n. (L. edictum, from edico, to had also the care of the highways, public ppr. educating. (L. educo, educatum, to bring utter or proclaim-e, out, and dico, to speak.] places, weights and measures, &c. up a child physically or mentally. from 1. That which is uttered or proclaimed by Edileship (ë'dil-ship), n. The office of an educo, eductuin, to lead forth, to bring up a authority as a rule of action; an order issued edile. child-e, out, and duco, to lead.) To bring by a prince to his subjects, as a rule or law Edingtonite (ed'ing-ton-it), n. A rare zeo- up, as a child; to instruct; to inform and requiring obedience; a proclamation of com litic mineral which occurs in the cavities of enlighten the understanding of; to cultivate mand or prohibition; as, the edicts of the thomsonite near Dumbarton. and train the mental powers of; to instil into Roman emperors; the edicts of the French Edit (ed'it), v.t. (L. edo, editum, to give the mind of, principles of art, science, morals, monarchs. forth, to publish-e, forth, and do, datum, religion, and behaviour; to qualify for the Edicts, properly speaking, cannot exist in Britain, to give.) To publish; to superintend the business and duties of life; as, to educate because the enacting of laws is lodged in the parlia. publication of; to prepare, as a book or children well is one of the most important ment, and not in the sovereign, Ogilvie. paper, for the public eye, by writing, cor2 A Scotch ecclesiastical term for various duties of parents and guardians. -SYN.To inrecting, or selecting the matter; to conduct struct, teach, inform, bring up, train, rear, proclamations or notices made of certain or manage, as a periodical. discipline, indoctrinate. things which a church court has resolved upon doing. -SYN. Decree, proclamation, Abelard wrote many philosophical treatises which Education (ed-ū-kā'shon), n. (L. educatio. have never been edited. Enfield. See EDUCATE.) The bringing up, as of a child; or linance, rescript, manifesto, command. Edition (ē-di'shon), n. (L. editio, from edo, instruction; formation of manners. EducaEdictal (e-dikt'al), a. Pertaining to an edict. - Edictal citation, in Scots law, a citation to publish. See EDIT.) 1. A literary work tion comprehends all that course of instrucmade upon a foreigner who is not resident as bearing a special stamp or form when tion and discipline which is intended to first published or subsequently; a work as enlighten the understanding, correct the within Scotland, but who has a landed characterized by editorial labours; as, my temper, cultivate the taste, and form the estate there; or upon a native of Scotland edition of Milton is not the same as yours. who is out of the country. Formerly it was manners and habits of youth, and fit them The which I also have more at large set for usefulness in their future stations. In published at the cross of Edinburgh, and the oute in the seconde edition of my booke.' its most extended signification it may be shore and pier of Leith; but since 1825, all Whitgift. *To set forth Nature in a second defined, in reference to man, to be the art citations against persons out of Scotland and fairer edition.' South..-2. The whole must be given at the Record Office of the of developing and cultivating the various Court of Session. number of copies of a work published at physical, intellectual, æsthetic, and moral once; as, the third edition of this book is faculties; and may thence be divided into Edificant (ed'i-8-kant), a. (See EDIFY. ) all exhausted. four branches -- physical, intellectual, esBuilding. (Rare.) Edition (e-di'shon), v.t. To edit; to publish. thetic, and moral education. This definiEdification (ed'i-fi-kā"shon), n. [L. wifi Mules Darier. catio, the act of building. See EDIFY.) Editio princeps (e-di'shi-o prin’seps), n. tion is by no means complete; but is used merely as indicative of the manner in which 1. The act of building up; construction. (L.) The first or earliest edition of a book; this subject has generally been discussed. We were licenced to enter the castle or fortresse the first printed edition. Under physical education is included all of Corfu, which is not only of situation the strongest I have seene, but also of edification. Hack/nyt. Editor (ed'it-er), n. (L., from edo, to pub- that relates to the organs of sensation and 2. + The thing built; a building; an edifice. lish. ] One who edits; particularly, a person the muscular and nervous system. Intel who superintends an impression of a book; lectual education comprehends the means Bullorer. 3. A building up, in a moral and religious sense; instruction; improvement the person who superintends, revises, cor- by which the powers of the understanding rects, and prepares a book, newspaper, or are to be developed and improved, and a and progress of the mind, in knowledge, in magazine for publication, view of the various branches of knowledge morals, or in faith and holiness. Editorial (ed-i-to'ri-al), a Pertaining to, which form the objects of instruction of He that prophesieth, speaketh to men to edification. proceedling from, or written by an editor; the four departments above stated. Æs 1 Cor. xiv. 3. Out of these magazines I shall supply the town as, editorial labours; an editorial remark or thetic education comprehends the agencies with what may tend to their edification. Addison note. which purify and refine the mind by train The qua ch, Sc. loch; 6. go; j, job; , Fr. ton; ng, sing; ch, chain; TH, then; th, thin; w, wig; wh, whig; zh, azure.-- See KEY, |