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Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together. [Obs.] Tusser.

That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden. Dryden.

To instruct and improve, especially in moral and religious knowledge; to teach. It does not appear probable that our dispute [about miracles] would either edify or enlighten the public. Gibbon.

The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education. To prepare us…

Having the lips, or edges, of the aperture abruptly spreading; -- said of certain shells.

r disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provides for.

Having the edges truncated.

Having the edge broken like battlements; -- said of a bearing such as a fess, bend, or the like.

Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.

To put in pawn; to pledge; to impawn. To sell, empawn, and alienate the estates. Milman.

The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment.

Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray. Pope. The sins of emptiness, gossip, and spite. Tennyson.

Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy; as, empty brains; an empty coxcomb. That in civility thou seem'st so empty. Shak.

The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge; esp., a work in which the various branches of science or art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia.

he art of writing or compiling encyclopedias; also, possession of the whole range of knowledge; encyclopedic learning.

compiler of an encyclopedia, or one who assists in such compilation; also, one whose knowledge embraces the whole range of the sciences. The Encyclopedists, the writers of the great French encyclopedia which appeared in 1751-1772. The editors were Diderot and D'Alembert. Among the contributors were Voltaire and Roussea…

To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as by a pledge, oath, or promise; to bind by contract or promise. "I to thee engaged a prince's word." Shak.

Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed.

The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take some one as husband or wife.

Indented with small concave curves, as the edge of a bordure, bend, or the like.