Edg"y (?), a. [From Edge.] 1. Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.
2. (Fine Arts) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined. "An edgy style of sculpture." Hazlitt.
Edh (?), n. The name of the Anglo- Saxon letter ð, capital form Ð. It is sounded as "English th in a similar word: ðer, other, dôð, doth." March.
Ed`i*bil"i*ty (?), n. Suitableness for being eaten; edibleness.
Ed"i*ble (?), a. [L. edibilis, fr. edere to eat. See Eat.] Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. Bacon. -- n. Anything edible.
Edible bird's nest. See Bird's nest, 2. -- Edible crab (Zoöl.), any species of crab used as food, esp. the American blue crab (Callinectes hastatus). See Crab. -- Edible frog (Zoöl.), the common European frog (Rana esculenta), used as food. -- Edible snail (Zoöl.), any snail used as food, esp. Helix pomatia and H. aspersa of Europe.
Ed"i*ble*ness, n. Suitableness for being eaten.
E"dict (?), n. [L. edictum, fr. edicere, edictum, to declare, proclaim; e out + dicere to say: cf. F. édit. See Diction.] 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.
It stands as an edict in destiny.
Shak.
Edict of Nantes (French Hist.), an edict issued by Henry IV. (A. D. 1598), giving toleration to Protestants. Its revocation by Louis XIV. (A. D. 1685) was followed by terrible persecutions and the expatriation of thousands of French Protestants.
Syn. -- Decree; proclamation; law; ordinance; statute; rule; order; manifesti; command. See Law.
E*dic"tal (?), a. Relating to, or consisting of, edicts; as, the Roman edictal law.
Ed"i*fi*cant (?), a. [L. aedificans, -antis, p. pr. of aedificare. See Edify.] Building; constructing. [R.] Dugard.
Ed`i*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [L. aedificatio: cf. F. édification. See Edify.] 1. 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.
The assured edification of his church.
Bp. Hall.
Out of these magazines I shall supply the town with what may tend to their edification.
Addison.