Word Meanings - EDACIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Given to eating; voracious; devouring. Swallowed in the depths of edacious Time. Carlyle. -- E*da"cious*ly, adv. -- E*da"cious*ness, n.

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• EATAGE
  Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath.
• EATH
  Easy or easily. "Eath to move with plaints." Fairfax.
• EATABLE
  Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible. -- n.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• SWALLOW
  Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidæ, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight. Note:
• EDACIOUS
  Given to eating; voracious; devouring. Swallowed in the depths of edacious Time. Carlyle. -- E*da"cious*ly, adv. -- E*da"cious*ness, n.
• EAT
  akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan, G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. äta, Dan. æde, Goth. itan, Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. 1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. "To eat grass
• EATING
  1. The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding. 2. Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating. Eating house, a house where cooked provisions are sold, to be eaten on the premises.
• DEVOUR
  1. To eat up with greediness; to consume ravenously; to feast upon like a wild beast or a glutton; to prey upon. Some evil beast hath devoured him. Gen. xxxvii. 20. 2. To seize upon and destroy or appropriate greedily, selfishly, or wantonly; to
• SWALLOWER
  One who swallows; also, a glutton. Tatler.
• EATER
  One who, or that which, eats.
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• DEVOURABLE
  That may be devoured.
• SWALLOWWORT
  See Celandine. A poisonous plant of the Milkweed family, at one time used in medicine; -- also called white swallowwort. African swallowwort, a plant of the genus Stapelia.
• SWALLOWTAIL
  A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.
• SWALLOW-TAILED
  United by dovetailing; dovetailed. Swallow-tailed duck , the old squaw. -- Swallow-tailed gull , an Arctic gull , which has a deeply forked tail. -- Swallow-tailed hawk or kite , the fork-tailed kite. -- Swallow-tailed moth , a European moth
• DEVOURER
  One who, or that which, devours.
• DEVOURINGLY
  In a devouring manner.
• VORACIOUS
  Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool. Dampier. -- Vo*ra"cious*ly, adv. -- Vo*ra"cious*ness, n.
• MEATY
  Abounding in meat.
• COLLINEATION
  The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. Johnson.
• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• REPEAT
  To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn.
• PALACIOUS
  Palatial. Graunt.
• STEATOPYGOUS
  Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• UNCREATED
  1. Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl. 2. Not yet created; as, misery uncreated. Milton. 3. Not existing by creation; self-existent; eternal; as, God is an uncreated being. Locke.
• LEAT
  An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill. C. Kingsley.
• WEATHERING
  The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.
• UNSHEATHE
  To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
• IDEAT; IDEATE
  The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.
• PRENUNCIOUS
  Announcing beforehand; presaging. Blount.
• PANCREATIN
  One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion. Note: By some the term pancreatin is restricted to the amylolytic
• AUSPICIOUS
  1. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay. 2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years.
• WEATHERWISER
  Something that foreshows the weather. Derham.
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• OFFICIOUS
  1. Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty. If there were any lie in the case, it could be no more than as officious and venial one. Note on Gen. xxvii. . 2. Disposed to serve; kind; obliging. Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries
• TRIOECIOUS
  Having three sorts of flowers on the same or on different plants, some of the flowers being staminate, others pistillate, and others both staminate and pistillate; belonging to the order Trioecia.