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Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating. [Colloq.] Eating house, a house where cooked provisions are sold, to be eaten on the premises.

the nature, or in a state, of ecstasy; as, ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance. This ecstatic fit of love and jealousy. Hammond.

Sharpness; readiness of fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire. The full edge of our indignation. Sir W. Scott. Death and persecution lose all the ill that they can have, if we do not set an edge upon them by our fears and by our vices. Jer. Taylor.

Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. Bacon. -- n.

To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill. A fit instrument to effectuate his desire. Sir P. Sidney. In order to effectuate the thorough reform. G. T. Curtis.

prayer, or the exclamation or prayer uttered. In your dressing, let there be jaculations fitted to the several actions of dressing. Jer. Taylor.

Casting or throwing out; fitted to eject; as, ejaculatory vessels.

r or jointed part of any structure, as the raised arm of a chair or sofa, or a short pipe fitting, turning at an angle or bent.

e's election, to choose. He has made his election to walk, in the main, in the old paths. Fitzed. Hall.

ebt, all of his lands are delivered, to be held till the debt is paid by the rents and profits, or until the defendant's interest has expired.

The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin. South. Those profitable and excellent emanations from God. Jer. Taylor.

The growing crop, or profits of a crop which has been sown or planted; -- used especially in the plural. The produce of grass, trees, and the like, is not emblement. Wharton's Law Dict.

The profit arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation; advantage; perquisites, fees, or salary. A long . . . enjoyment of the emoluments of office. Bancroft.

Pertaining to an emolument; profitable. [R.] Evelyn.

Fit to be applied as a plaster; glutinous; adhesive; as, emplastic applications.

Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use. Boyle.

se; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody encounter. As one for . . . fierce encounters fit. Spenser. To join their dark encounter in mid-air. Milton .

Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying. [R.] "All loves are endless." Beau. & Fl.

arely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.

mplishment; natural capacity; talents; -- usually in the plural. His early endowments had fitted him for the work he was to do. I. Taylor.