Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume DE-- Ecumenical Bishop, a title assumed by the popes. -- Ecumenical council. See under Council. Ec"uˇrie (?), n. [F. See Equerry.] A stable. Ec"zeˇma (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. εκζεμα; εκ out + ζειν to boil.] (Med.) An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum. Ecˇzem"aˇtous (?), a. (Med.) Pertaining to eczema; having the characteristic of eczema. -ed (?). The termination of the past participle of regular, or weak, verbs; also, of analogous participial adjectives from nouns; as, pigmented; talented. Eˇda"cious (?), a. [L. edax, edacis, fr. edere to eat.] Given to eating; voracious; devouring. Swallowed in the depths of edacious Time. -- Eˇda"ciousˇly, adv. -- Eˇda"ciousˇness, n. Eˇdac"iˇty (?), n. [L. edacitas.] Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity. Bacon. E"dam (?), n., or Edam cheese. A Dutch pressed cheese of yellow color and fine flavor, made in balls weighing three or four pounds, and usually colored crimson outside; -- so called from the village of Edam, near Amsterdam. Also, cheese of the same type, wherever made. Ed"da (?), n.; pl. Eddas (#). [Icel., lit. great-grandmother (i. e., of Scandinavian poetry), so called by Bishop Brynjúlf Sveinsson, who brought it again to light in 1643.] 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. |