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<h1>Edulcorant</h1> <Xpage=471>

<hw>E*dul"co*rant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Edulcorate</er>.]</ety> <def>Having a tendency to purify or to sweeten by removing or correcting acidity and acrimony.</def>

<h1>Edulcorant</h1> <Xpage=471>

<hw>E*dul"co*rant</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An edulcorant remedy.</def>

<h1>Edulcorate</h1> <Xpage=471>

<hw>E*dul"co*rate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Edulcorated</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Edulcorating</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>e</ets> ou<?/ + <ets>dulcoratus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>dulcorare</ets> to sweeten, fr. <ets>dulcor</ets> sweetness, fr. <ets>dulcis</ets> sweet: cf. F. <ets>\'82dulcorer</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity.</def>

<blockquote>Succory . . . <b>edulcorated</b> with sugar and vinegar. <i>Evelyn.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>To free from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, by washing; to purify.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Edulcoration</h1> <Xpage=471>

<hw>E*dul`co*ra"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>\'82dulcoration</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of sweetening or edulcorating.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>The act of freeing from acids or any soluble substances, by affusions of water.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Ure.</i>

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<h1>Edulcorative</h1> <Xpage=472>

<hw>E*dul"co*ra*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Tending to <?/weeten or purify by affusions of water.</def>

<h1>Edulcorator</h1> <Xpage=472>

<hw>E*dul"co*ra`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A contrivance used to supply small quantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bottle.</def>

<h1>Edulious</h1> <Xpage=472>

<hw>E*du"li*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>edulis</ets>, fr. <ets>edere</ets> to eat.]</ety> <def>Edible.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Edulious</i> pulses."

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>

<h1>-ee</h1> <Xpage=472>

<hw>-ee</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[Formed on the F. p. p. ending <ets>-\'82</ets>, masc.]</ety> <def>A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one <i>to whom</i> an act <i>is done</i> or <i>on whom</i> a right <i>is conferred</i>; as in assign<i>ee</i>, don<i>ee</i>, alien<i>ee</i>, grant<i>ee</i>, etc. It is correlative to <i>-or</i>, the agent or doer.</def>

<h1>Eek, Eeke</h1> <Xpage=472>

<hw><hw>Eek</hw>, <hw>Eeke</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>See <er>Eke</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Eel</h1> <Xpage=472>