Part 626

And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.

Dryden.

Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.

Addison.

Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds. Dryden.

Ed"dy, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Eddied (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Eddying.] To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.

Eddying round and round they sink.

Wordsworth.

Ed"dy, v. t. To collect as into an eddy. [R.]

The circling mountains eddy in From the bare wild the dissipated storm.

Thomson.

||E"del*weiss (?), n. [G., fr. edel noble + weiss white.] (Bot.) A little, perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the Alps.

E*de"ma (?), n. [NL.] (Med.) Same as œdema.

{ E*de"ma*tous (?), or E*de"ma*tose` (?) }, a. (Med.) Same as œdematous.

E"den (?), n. [Heb. den delight, pleasure; also, a place of pleasure, Eden.] The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence.

E*den"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to Eden; paradisaic. "Edenic joys." Mrs. Browning.

E"den*ite (?), n. [From Edenville, N. Y.] (Min.) A variety of amphibole. See Amphibole.

E"den*ized (?), a. Admitted to a state of paradisaic happiness. [R.] Davies (Wit's Pilgr. ).

E*den"tal (?), a. See Edentate, a. -- n. (Zoöl.) One of the Edentata.

E*den"tal*ous (?), a. See Edentate, a.

||E`den*ta"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., neut. pl. from L. edentatus, p. p. of edentare to render toothless; e out + dens, dentis, tooth.] (Zoöl.) An order of mammals including the armadillos, sloths, and anteaters; -- called also Bruta. The incisor teeth are rarely developed, and in some groups all the teeth are lacking.

E*den"tate (?), a. 1. Destitute of teeth; as, an edentate quadruped; an edentate leaf.

2. (Zoöl.) Belonging to the Edentata.

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E*den"tate (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Edentata.

E*den`ta*ted (?), a. Same as Edentate, a.

E`den*ta"tion (?), n. A depriving of teeth. [R.] Cockeram.

E*den"tu*lous (?; 135), a. [L. edentulus; e out + dens, dentis, tooth.] Toothless.