Name Report For First Name EDE:
EDE
First name EDE's origin is English. EDE means "wealthy". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with EDE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of ede.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with EDE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with EDE - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming EDE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES EDE AS A WHOLE:
federikke medea benedetta mercede vedette kaede nedelcu edet edern frederik raedeman agamedes diomedes ganymede lycomedes fredek edee edeen edelina eden edenia fedelm frederica frederika frederike kaedence louredes mercedes odede sigfriede vedetta braeden drygedene edelmarr eder federico frederic frederick frederico heallstede jaeden jedediah kaeden palamedes palsmedes stedeman gedeon diederich edelmar brede edeline bede edel amedee bedegrayne clamedeus zedekiah kaedeeNAMES RHYMING WITH EDE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (de) - Names That Ends with de:
grishilde ode bertilde aude brighde adelaide brunhilde zenaide tunde ade akintunde babatunde dzigbode matunde berde jibade kazemde davide adelheide bathilde beorhthilde bride candide clarimonde clotilde eldride emeraude enide ethelinde gerde gertrude griselde grisjahilde griswalde hayley-jade heide hildagarde hilde holde hulde ide isolde isoude jade jayde magnilde maitilde mathilde matilde maude mayde melisande mide otthilde rolande romhilde romilde rosalinde rosamonde rosemonde serihilde shayde tibelde trenade trude vande wande wilde winifride yolande ysolde andwearde attewode ayrwode birde cade calfhierde carmelide cinneide claude clyde dwade ealdwode evinrude eweheorde forde gilbride giollabrighde heortwode hide jerande jude kade kayde kermode kyrkwode ladde macbride merewode northwodeNAMES RHYMING WITH EDE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ed) - Names That Begins with ed:
eda edan edana edbert edda eddie eddis eddison eddrick eddy edfu edgar edgard edgardo edie ediline edina edine edingu edison edit edita edith editha editta edjo edla edlen edlin edlyn edlynn edlynne edmanda edmee edmon edmond edmonda edmondo edmund edmunda edmundo edna edoardo edorta edra edrea edred edric edrick edrigu edrik edris edrys edsel edson eduard eduarda eduardo edur edurne edva edvard edw edwa edwald edwaldo edward edwardo edwardson edwin edwina edwinna edwy edwyn edyt edyth edytha edytheNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH EDE:
First Names which starts with 'e' and ends with 'e':
eadsele eadwardsone eadwine earie earle earlene earline earwine eastre ebiere eevee effie eftemie egbertine egbertyne eglantine eguskine ehawee eileene eilene eirene eithne elaine elayne elberte elbertine elcie eldridge elene eleonore elfie elgine eliane elidure elinore elisa-mae elisamarie elise elke ellaine ellayne elle ellee ellene ellesse ellette ellice ellie ellone ellyce elmore elne eloise eloisee elpide else elsie elsje elvie elvine elvyne elwine elyce elye elyse elzie emele emelene emeline emestine emile emilee emilie emma-lise emmalee emmaline emmanuele emmanuelle emmarae emmeline emmie emylee endre ene enerstyne engelbertine enite enrique eostre ephie ercole erianthe erie erienne erigone eriphyle erle erlene erline ermengardineEnglish Words Rhyming EDE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES EDE AS A WHOLE:
abovedeck | adjective (a.) On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. |
accedence | noun (n.) The act of acceding. |
acceder | noun (n.) One who accedes. |
anomalipede | adjective (a.) Having anomalous feet. |
antecedence | noun (n.) The act or state of going before in time; precedence. |
noun (n.) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation. |
antecedency | noun (n.) The state or condition of being antecedent; priority. |
antecedent | noun (n.) That which goes before in time; that which precedes. |
noun (n.) One who precedes or goes in front. | |
noun (n.) The earlier events of one's life; previous principles, conduct, course, history. | |
noun (n.) The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence "Solomon was the prince who built the temple," prince is the antecedent of who. | |
noun (n.) The first or conditional part of a hypothetical proposition; as, If the earth is fixed, the sun must move. | |
noun (n.) The first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, Every man is mortal; therefore the king must die. | |
noun (n.) The first of the two terms of a ratio; the first or third of the four terms of a proportion. In the ratio a:b, a is the antecedent, and b the consequent. | |
adjective (a.) Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause. | |
adjective (a.) Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability. |
archimedean | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc. |
archimedes | noun (n.) An extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw. |
andromede | noun (n.) Alt. of Andromed |
bedehouse | noun (n.) An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors. |
noun (n.) Same as Beadhouse. |
bedesman | noun (n.) A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. |
noun (n.) Same as Beadsman. |
bedeswoman | noun (n.) Fem. of Beadsman. |
bede | noun (n.) A kind of pickax. |
verb (v. t.) To pray; also, to offer; to proffer. |
bedecking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bedeck |
bedeguar | noun (n.) Alt. of Bedegar |
bedegar | noun (n.) A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosae). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties. |
bedel | noun (n.) Alt. of Bedell |
bedell | noun (n.) Same as Beadle. |
bedelry | noun (n.) Beadleship. |
beden | noun (n.) The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible. |
bedeviling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bedevil |
bedevilment | noun (n.) The state of being bedeviled; bewildering confusion; vexatious trouble. |
bedewing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bedew |
bedewer | noun (n.) One who, or that which, bedews. |
bedewy | adjective (a.) Moist with dew; dewy. |
belvedere | noun (n.) A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect. |
bleeder | noun (n.) One who, or that which, draws blood. |
noun (n.) One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding. |
brede | noun (n.) Alt. of Breede |
noun (n.) A braid. |
breede | noun (n.) Breadth. |
breeder | noun (n.) One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc. |
noun (n.) A cause. |
confederacy | noun (n.) A league or compact between two or more persons, bodies of men, or states, for mutual support or common action; alliance. |
noun (n.) The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation. | |
noun (n.) A combination of two or more persons to commit an unlawful act, or to do a lawful act by unlawful means. See Conspiracy. | |
noun (n.) With the, the Confederate States of America. |
confederate | noun (n.) One who is united with others in a league; a person or a nation engaged in a confederacy; an ally; also, an accomplice in a bad sense. |
noun (n.) A name designating an adherent to the cause of the States which attempted to withdraw from the Union (1860-1865). | |
adjective (a.) United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an independent nation styled the Confederate States of America; as, the Confederate congress; Confederate money. | |
verb (v. t.) To unite in a league or confederacy; to ally. | |
verb (v. i.) To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together. |
confederating | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Confederate |
confederater | noun (n.) A confederate. |
confederation | noun (n.) The act of confederating; a league; a compact for mutual support; alliance, particularly of princes, nations, or states. |
noun (n.) The parties that are confederated, considered as a unit; a confederacy. |
confederative | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a confederation. |
confederator | noun (n.) A confederate. |
credence | noun (n.) Reliance of the mind on evidence of facts derived from other sources than personal knowledge; belief; credit; confidence. |
noun (n.) That which gives a claim to credit, belief, or confidence; as, a letter of credence. | |
noun (n.) The small table by the side of the altar or communion table, on which the bread and wine are placed before being consecrated. | |
noun (n.) A cupboard, sideboard, or cabinet, particularly one intended for the display of rich vessels or plate, and consisting chiefly of open shelves for that purpose. | |
verb (v. t.) To give credence to; to believe. |
credendum | noun (n.) A thing to be believed; an article of faith; -- distinguished from agendum, a practical duty. |
credent | adjective (a.) Believing; giving credence; credulous. |
adjective (a.) Having credit or authority; credible. |
credential | noun (n.) That which gives a title to credit or confidence. |
noun (n.) Testimonials showing that a person is entitled to credit, or has right to exercise official power, as the letters given by a government to an ambassador or envoy, or a certificate that one is a duly elected delegate. | |
adjective (a.) Giving a title or claim to credit or confidence; accrediting. |
dasypaedes | noun (n. pl.) Those birds whose young are covered with down when hatched. |
decede | noun (n.) To withdraw. |
decedent | noun (n.) A deceased person. |
adjective (a.) Removing; departing. |
dede | adjective (a.) Dead. |
dedecoration | noun (n.) Disgrace; dishonor. |
dedecorous | adjective (a.) Disgraceful; unbecoming. |
dedentition | noun (n.) The shedding of teeth. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH EDE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (de) - English Words That Ends with de:
abode | noun (n.) Act of waiting; delay. |
noun (n.) Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn. | |
noun (n.) Place of continuance, or where one dwells; abiding place; residence; a dwelling; a habitation. | |
verb (v. t.) An omen. | |
verb (v. t.) To bode; to foreshow. | |
verb (v. i.) To be ominous. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Abide | |
() pret. of Abide. |
aborticide | noun (n.) The act of destroying a fetus in the womb; feticide. |
accolade | noun (n.) A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword. |
noun (n.) A brace used to join two or more staves. |
acerbitude | noun (n.) Sourness and harshness. |
acetaldehyde | noun (n.) Acetic aldehyde. See Aldehyde. |
acetamide | noun (n.) A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl. |
acetanilide | noun (n.) A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain; -- called also antifebrine. |
acnode | noun (n.) An isolated point not upon a curve, but whose coordinates satisfy the equation of the curve so that it is considered as belonging to the curve. |
acritude | noun (n.) Acridity; pungency joined with heat. |
alamode | noun (n.) A thin, black silk for hoods, scarfs, etc.; -- often called simply mode. |
adverb (adv. & a.) According to the fashion or prevailing mode. |
alcade | noun (n.) Same as Alcaid. |
noun (n.) Var. of Alcaid. |
alcayde | noun (n.) A commander of a castle or fortress among the Spaniards, Portuguese, and Moors. |
noun (n.) The warden, or keeper of a jail. | |
noun (n.) Same as Alcaid. |
alcalde | noun (n.) A magistrate or judge in Spain and in Spanish America, etc. |
aldehyde | noun (n.) A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain processes of oxidation. |
alfenide | noun (n.) An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver. |
alidade | noun (n.) The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument |
alkalamide | noun (n.) One of a series of compounds that may be regarded as ammonia in which a part of the hydrogen has been replaced by basic, and another part by acid, atoms or radicals. |
allemande | noun (n.) A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel. |
noun (n.) A figure in dancing. |
allhallowtide | noun (n.) The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st. |
almude | noun (n.) A measure for liquids in several countries. In Portugal the Lisbon almude is about 4.4, and the Oporto almude about 6.6, gallons U. S. measure. In Turkey the "almud" is about 1.4 gallons. |
altitude | noun (n.) Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree. |
noun (n.) The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object, above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between such point and the horizon. It is either true or apparent; true when measured from the rational or real horizon, apparent when from the sensible or apparent horizon. | |
noun (n.) The perpendicular distance from the base of a figure to the summit, or to the side parallel to the base; as, the altitude of a triangle, pyramid, parallelogram, frustum, etc. | |
noun (n.) Height of degree; highest point or degree. | |
noun (n.) Height of rank or excellence; superiority. | |
noun (n.) Elevation of spirits; heroics; haughty airs. |
amaritude | noun (n.) Bitterness. |
amende | noun (n.) A pecuniary punishment or fine; a reparation or recantation. |
amide | noun (n.) A compound formed by the union of amidogen with an acid element or radical. It may also be regarded as ammonia in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by an acid atom or radical. |
amplitude | noun (n.) State of being ample; extent of surface or space; largeness of dimensions; size. |
noun (n.) Largeness, in a figurative sense; breadth; abundance; fullness. | |
noun (n.) Of extent of capacity or intellectual powers. | |
noun (n.) Of extent of means or resources. | |
noun (n.) The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the center of the sun, or a star, at its rising or setting. At the rising, the amplitude is eastern or ortive: at the setting, it is western, occiduous, or occasive. It is also northern or southern, when north or south of the equator. | |
noun (n.) The arc of the horizon between the true east or west point and the foot of the vertical circle passing through any star or object. | |
noun (n.) The horizontal line which measures the distance to which a projectile is thrown; the range. | |
noun (n.) The extent of a movement measured from the starting point or position of equilibrium; -- applied especially to vibratory movements. | |
noun (n.) An angle upon which the value of some function depends; -- a term used more especially in connection with elliptic functions. |
anelectrode | noun (n.) The positive pole of a voltaic battery. |
anhydride | noun (n.) An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; -- so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water. |
anilide | noun (n.) One of a class of compounds which may be regarded as amides in which more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl. |
anode | noun (n.) The positive pole of an electric battery, or more strictly the electrode by which the current enters the electrolyte on its way to the other pole; -- opposed to cathode. |
anticathode | noun (n.) The part of a vacuum tube opposite the cathode. Upon it the cathode rays impinge. |
antipode | noun (n.) One of the antipodes; anything exactly opposite. |
anxietude | noun (n.) The state of being anxious; anxiety. |
apode | noun (n.) One of certain animals that have no feet or footlike organs; esp. one of certain fabulous birds which were said to have no feet. |
aptitude | noun (n.) A natural or acquired disposition or capacity for a particular purpose, or tendency to a particular action or effect; as, oil has an aptitude to burn. |
noun (n.) A general fitness or suitableness; adaptation. | |
noun (n.) Readiness in learning; docility; aptness. |
arcade | noun (n.) A series of arches with the columns or piers which support them, the spandrels above, and other necessary appurtenances; sometimes open, serving as an entrance or to give light; sometimes closed at the back (as in the cut) and forming a decorative feature. |
noun (n.) A long, arched building or gallery. | |
noun (n.) An arched or covered passageway or avenue. |
arquebusade | noun (n.) The shot of an arquebus. |
noun (n.) A distilled water from a variety of aromatic plants, as rosemary, millefoil, etc.; -- originally used as a vulnerary in gunshot wounds. |
arsenide | noun (n.) A compound of arsenic with a metal, or positive element or radical; -- formerly called arseniuret. |
aside | noun (n.) Something spoken aside; as, a remark made by a stageplayer which the other players are not supposed to hear. |
adverb (adv.) On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart. | |
adverb (adv.) Out of one's thoughts; off; away; as, to put aside gloomy thoughts. | |
adverb (adv.) So as to be heard by others; privately. |
assuetude | noun (n.) Accustomedness; habit; habitual use. |
attitude | noun (n.) The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue. |
noun (n.) The posture or position of a person or an animal, or the manner in which the parts of his body are disposed; position assumed or studied to serve a purpose; as, a threatening attitude; an attitude of entreaty. | |
noun (n.) Fig.: Position as indicating action, feeling, or mood; as, in times of trouble let a nation preserve a firm attitude; one's mental attitude in respect to religion. |
aubade | noun (n.) An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning. |
aurochloride | noun (n.) The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate. |
aurocyanide | noun (n.) A double cyanide of gold and some other metal or radical; -- called also cyanaurate. |
arillode | noun (n.) A false aril; an aril originating from the micropyle instead of from the funicle or chalaza of the ovule. The mace of the nutmeg is an arillode. |
backside | noun (n.) The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal. |
bactericide | noun (n.) Same as Germicide. |
ballade | noun (n.) A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy. |
balotade | noun (n.) See Ballotade. |
balustrade | noun (n.) A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building. |
bambocciade | noun (n.) A representation of a grotesque scene from common or rustic life. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH EDE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (ed) - Words That Begins with ed:
edacious | adjective (a.) Given to eating; voracious; devouring. |
edacity | noun (n.) Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity. |
edda | noun (n.) The religious or mythological book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes. |
eddaic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Eddic |
eddic | adjective (a.) Relating to the Eddas; resembling the Eddas. |
edder | noun (n.) An adder or serpent. |
noun (n.) Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together. | |
verb (v. t.) To bind the top interweaving edder; as, to edder a hedge. |
eddish | noun (n.) Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See Arrish. |
eddoes | noun (n. pl.) The tubers of Colocasia antiquorum. See Taro. |
eddy | noun (n.) A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current. |
noun (n.) A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool. | |
verb (v. i.) To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle. | |
verb (v. t.) To collect as into an eddy. |
eddying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eddy |
edelweiss | noun (n.) A little, perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the Alps. |
edema | noun (n.) Same as oedema. |
edematous | adjective (a.) Alt. of Edematose |
edematose | adjective (a.) Same as oedematous. |
eden | noun (n.) The garden where Adam and Eve first dwelt; hence, a delightful region or residence. |
edenic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Eden; paradisaic. |
edenite | noun (n.) A variety of amphibole. See Amphibole. |
edenized | adjective (a.) Admitted to a state of paradisaic happiness. |
edental | noun (n.) One of the Edentata. |
adjective (a.) See Edentate, a. |
edentalous | adjective (a.) See Edentate, a. |
edentata | noun (n. pl.) 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. |
edentate | noun (n.) One of the Edentata. |
adjective (a.) Destitute of teeth; as, an edentate quadruped; an edentate leaf. | |
adjective (a.) Belonging to the Edentata. |
edentated | adjective (a.) Same as Edentate, a. |
edentation | noun (n.) A depriving of teeth. |
edentulous | adjective (a.) Toothless. |
edging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Edge |
noun (n.) That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden. | |
noun (n.) The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal. |
edgebone | noun (n.) Same as Aitchbone. |
edgeless | adjective (a.) Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon. |
edgeshot | adjective (a.) Having an edge planed, -- said of a board. |
edgy | adjective (a.) Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper. |
adjective (a.) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined. |
edh | noun (n.) The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It is sounded as "English th in a similar word: //er, other, d//, doth." |
edibility | noun (n.) Suitableness for being eaten; edibleness. |
edible | noun (n.) Anything edible. |
adjective (a.) Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. |
edibleness | noun (n.) Suitableness for being eaten. |
edict | noun (n.) A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch. |
edictal | adjective (a.) Relating to, or consisting of, edicts; as, the Roman edictal law. |
edificant | adjective (a.) Building; constructing. |
edification | noun (n.) The act of edifying, or the state of being edified; a building up, especially in a moral or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or spiritual improvement; instruction. |
noun (n.) A building or edifice. |
edificatory | adjective (a.) Tending to edification. |
edifice | noun (n.) A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehouse. |
edificial | adjective (a.) Pertaining to an edifice; structural. |
edifier | noun (n.) One who builds. |
noun (n.) One who edifies, builds up, or strengthens another by moral or religious instruction. |
edifying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Edify |
adjective (a.) Instructing; improving; as, an edifying conversation. |
edile | noun (n.) See Aedile. |
edileship | noun (n.) The office of aedile. |
edingtonite | noun (n.) A grayish white zeolitic mineral, in tetragonal crystals. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta. |
editing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Edit |
edition | noun (n.) A literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner; as, a good edition of Chaucer; Chalmers' edition of Shakespeare. |
noun (n.) The whole number of copies of a work printed and published at one time; as, the first edition was soon sold. |
editioner | noun (n.) An editor. |
editor | noun (n.) One who edits; esp., a person who prepares, superintends, revises, and corrects a book, magazine, or newspaper, etc., for publication. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH EDE:
English Words which starts with 'e' and ends with 'e':
eagle | noun (n.) Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Haliaeetus. The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight. The most noted species are the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetus); the imperial eagle of Europe (A. mogilnik / imperialis); the American bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus); the European sea eagle (H. albicilla); and the great harpy eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). The figure of the eagle, as the king of birds, is commonly used as an heraldic emblem, and also for standards and emblematic devices. See Bald eagle, Harpy, and Golden eagle. |
noun (n.) A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars. | |
noun (n.) A northern constellation, containing Altair, a star of the first magnitude. See Aquila. | |
noun (n.) The figure of an eagle borne as an emblem on the standard of the ancient Romans, or so used upon the seal or standard of any people. |
eaglestone | noun (n.) A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aetites. |
eagre | noun (n.) A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly called the bore. See Bore. |
eale | noun (n.) Ale. |
eame | noun (n.) Uncle. |
earable | adjective (a.) Arable; tillable. |
earache | noun (n.) Ache or pain in the ear. |
earcockle | noun (n.) A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms. |
earsore | noun (n.) An annoyance to the ear. |
earthdrake | noun (n.) A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. |
earthenware | noun (n.) Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain. |
earthquake | noun (n.) A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities and many thousand lives; -- called also earthdin, earthquave, and earthshock. |
adjective (a.) Like, or characteristic of, an earthquake; loud; starling. |
earthquave | noun (n.) An earthquake. |
ease | noun (n.) Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment. |
noun (n.) Freedom from anything that pains or troubles; as: (a) Relief from labor or effort; rest; quiet; relaxation; as, ease of body. | |
noun (n.) Freedom from care, solicitude, or anything that annoys or disquiets; tranquillity; peace; comfort; security; as, ease of mind. | |
noun (n.) Freedom from constraint, formality, difficulty, embarrassment, etc.; facility; liberty; naturalness; -- said of manner, style, etc.; as, ease of style, of behavior, of address. | |
noun (n.) To free from anything that pains, disquiets, or oppresses; to relieve from toil or care; to give rest, repose, or tranquility to; -- often with of; as, to ease of pain; ease the body or mind. | |
noun (n.) To render less painful or oppressive; to mitigate; to alleviate. | |
noun (n.) To release from pressure or restraint; to move gently; to lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in machinery. | |
noun (n.) To entertain; to furnish with accommodations. |
eatable | noun (n.) Something fit to be eaten. |
adjective (a.) Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible. |
eatage | noun (n.) Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath. |
ebionite | noun (n.) One of a sect of heretics, in the first centuries of the church, whose doctrine was a mixture of Judaism and Christianity. They denied the divinity of Christ, regarding him as an inspired messenger, and rejected much of the New Testament. |
ebonite | noun (n.) A hard, black variety of vulcanite. It may be cut and polished, and is used for many small articles, as combs and buttons, and for insulating material in electric apparatus. |
ebracteate | adjective (a.) Without bracts. |
ebracteolate | adjective (a.) Without bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a pedicel or flower stalk. |
ebrauke | adjective (a.) Hebrew. |
ebrillade | noun (n.) A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn. |
ebullience | noun (n.) Alt. of Ebulliency |
ebullioscope | noun (n.) An instrument for observing the boiling point of liquids, especially for determining the alcoholic strength of a mixture by the temperature at which it boils. |
eburnine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to ivory. |
ecarte | noun (n.) A game at cards, played usually by two persons, in which the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive others from the pack. |
noun (n.) A game at cards for two persons, with 32 cards, ranking K, Q, J, A, 10, 9, 8, 7. Five cards are dealt each player, and the 11th turned as trump. Five points constitute a game. |
ecaudate | adjective (a.) Without a tail or spur. |
adjective (a.) Tailless. |
ecbole | noun (n.) A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his own words. |
ecboline | noun (n.) An alkaloid constituting the active principle of ergot; -- so named from its power of producing abortion. |
eccle | noun (n.) The European green woodpecker; -- also called ecall, eaquall, yaffle. |
ecgonine | noun (n.) A colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine. |
echauguette | noun (n.) A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle. |
eche | noun (a. / a. pron.) Each. |
echidnine | noun (n.) The clear, viscid fluid secreted by the poison glands of certain serpents; also, a nitrogenous base contained in this, and supposed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus. |
echinate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Echinated |
echinite | noun (n.) A fossil echinoid. |
echinulate | adjective (a.) Set with small spines or prickles. |
echoscope | noun (n.) An instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax. |
eclipse | noun (n.) An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an occultation. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet. |
noun (n.) The loss, usually temporary or partial, of light, brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun. | |
verb (v. t.) To obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster, honor, etc., of; to sully; to cloud; to throw into the shade by surpassing. | |
verb (v. i.) To suffer an eclipse. |
eclogite | noun (n.) A rock consisting of granular red garnet, light green smaragdite, and common hornblende; -- so called in reference to its beauty. |
eclogue | noun (n.) A pastoral poem, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established. |
ecorche | noun (n.) A manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study. |
ecossaise | noun (n.) A dancing tune in the Scotch style. |
ecostate | adjective (a.) Having no ribs or nerves; -- said of a leaf. |
ecoute | noun (n.) One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners. |
ecphoneme | noun (n.) A mark (!) used to indicate an exclamation. |
ectomere | noun (n.) The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in many segmenting ova, as those of mammals. |
ectoparasite | noun (n.) Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; -- opposed to endoparasite. |
ectype | noun (n.) A copy, as in pottery, of an artist's original work. Hence: |
noun (n.) A work sculptured in relief, as a cameo, or in bas-relief (in this sense used loosely). | |
noun (n.) A copy from an original; a type of something that has previously existed. |
ecurie | noun (n.) A stable. |
edomite | noun (n.) One of the descendants of Esau or Edom, the brother of Jacob; an Idumean. |
educable | adjective (a.) Capable of being educated. |
educative | adjective (a.) Tending to educate; that gives education; as, an educative process; an educative experience. |
educible | adjective (a.) Capable of being educed. |
eductive | adjective (a.) Tending to draw out; extractive. |
edulcorative | adjective (a.) Tending to /weeten or purify by affusions of water. |
eelfare | noun (n.) A brood of eels. |
eerie | adjective (a.) Alt. of Eery |
eerisome | adjective (a.) Causing fear; eerie. |
effable | adjective (a.) Capable of being uttered or explained; utterable. |
effaceable | adjective (a.) Capable of being effaced. |
effectible | adjective (a.) Capable of being done or achieved; practicable; feasible. |
effective | noun (n.) That which produces a given effect; a cause. |
noun (n.) One who is capable of active service. | |
noun (n.) Specie or coin, as distinguished from paper currency; -- a term used in many parts of Europe. | |
noun (n.) The serviceable soldiers in a country; an army or any military body, collectively; as, France's effective. | |
adjective (a.) Having the power to produce an effect or effects; producing a decided or decisive effect; efficient; serviceable; operative; as, an effective force, remedy, speech; the effective men in a regiment. |
effectuose | adjective (a.) Alt. of Effectuous |
effeminate | adjective (a.) Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak. |
adjective (a.) Womanlike; womanly; tender; -- in a good sense. | |
verb (v. t.) To make womanish; to make soft and delicate; to weaken. | |
verb (v. i.) To grow womanish or weak. |
effervescence | noun (n.) Alt. of Effervescency |
effervescible | adjective (a.) Capable of effervescing. |
effervescive | adjective (a.) Tending to produce effervescence. |
effete | adjective (a.) No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile. |
efficience | noun (n.) Alt. of Efficiency |
efflorescence | noun (n.) Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth. |
noun (n.) A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc. | |
noun (n.) The formation of the whitish powder or crust on the surface of efflorescing bodies, as salts, etc. | |
noun (n.) The powder or crust thus formed. |
effluence | noun (n.) A flowing out, or emanation. |
noun (n.) That which flows or issues from any body or substance; issue; efflux. |
effluviable | adjective (a.) Capable of being given off as an effluvium. |
effrayable | adjective (a.) Frightful. |
effulgence | noun (n.) The state of being effulgent; extreme brilliancy; a flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor. |
effuse | noun (n.) Effusion; loss. |
adjective (a.) Poured out freely; profuse. | |
adjective (a.) Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal. | |
adjective (a.) Spreading loosely, especially on one side; as, an effuse inflorescence. | |
adjective (a.) Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading; -- said of certain shells. | |
verb (v. t.) To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed. | |
verb (v. i.) To emanate; to issue. |
effusive | adjective (a.) Pouring out; pouring forth freely. |
egence | noun (n.) The state of needing, or of suffering a natural want. |
egre | noun (a. & n.) See Eager, and Eagre. |
adjective (a.) Sharp; bitter; acid; sour. |
eglandulose | adjective (a.) Alt. of Eglandulous |
eglantine | noun (n.) A species of rose (Rosa Eglanteria), with fragrant foliage and flowers of various colors. |
noun (n.) The sweetbrier (R. rubiginosa). |
eglatere | noun (n.) Eglantine. |
egranulose | adjective (a.) Having no granules, as chlorophyll in certain conditions. |
egrette | noun (n.) Same as Egret, n., 2. |
egritude | noun (n.) Sickness; ailment; sorrow. |
ehlite | noun (n.) A mineral of a green color and pearly luster; a hydrous phosphate of copper. |
eightetethe | adjective (a.) Eighteenth. |
eightscore | noun (a. & n.) Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty. |
eigne | adjective (a.) Eldest; firstborn. |
adjective (a.) Entailed; belonging to the eldest son. |
eikosane | noun (n.) A solid hydrocarbon, C20H42, of the paraffine series, of artificial production, and also probably occurring in petroleum. |
eikosylene | noun (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C20H38, of the acetylene series, obtained from brown coal. |
eire | noun (n.) Air. |
eirie | noun (n.) See Aerie, and Eyrie. |
eke | noun (n.) An addition. |
verb (v. t.) To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other. | |
adverb (adv.) In addition; also; likewise. |
ekebergite | noun (n.) A variety of scapolite. |
ekename | noun (n.) An additional or epithet name; a nickname. |
elaborate | adjective (a.) Wrought with labor; finished with great care; studied; executed with exactness or painstaking; as, an elaborate discourse; an elaborate performance; elaborate research. |
verb (v. t.) To produce with labor | |
verb (v. t.) To perfect with painstaking; to improve or refine with labor and study, or by successive operations; as, to elaborate a painting or a literary work. |
elaborative | adjective (a.) Serving or tending to elaborate; constructing with labor and minute attention to details. |
elaeolite | noun (n.) A variety of hephelite, usually massive, of greasy luster, and gray to reddish color. |
elaeoptene | noun (n.) The more liquid or volatile portion of certain oily substance, as distinguished from stearoptene, the more solid parts. |