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Not willing to speak; mute; silent; not speaking; not accompanied by words; as, dumb show. This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him. Shak. To pierce into the dumb past. J. C. Shairp.

Beaten; hence, blunted. [Obs.] Fencer's swords . . . having the edge dunted. Fuller.

inue. I 'll rather dwell in my necessity. Shak. Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart. Wordsworth.

Of or pertaining to dying or death; as, dying bed; dying day; dying words; also, simulating a dying state.

ses, a proof of the real existence of such a thing as instinct must necessarily be fatal. Word (Dynamic Sociology).

Sharp; keen; bitter; severe. [Obs.] "A nipping and an eager air." "Eager words." Shak.

or most readily through, or in terms related to, the sense of hearing; specif., thinking words as spoken, as a result of familiarity with speech or of mental peculiarity; -- opposed to eye-minded.

Reach of the ear; distance at which words may be heard. Dryden.

regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China, etc.; as, the riches of the East; the diamonds and pearls of the East; the kings of the East. The gorgeous East, with richest hand, Showers on her kings barbaric…

To eat of (partitive use). "Eat of the bread that can not waste." Keble. -- To eat one's words, to retract what one has said. (See the Citation under Blurt.) -- To eat out, to consume completely. "Eat out the heart and comfort of it." Tillotson. -- To eat the wind out of a vessel (Naut.), to gain slowly to windward o…

A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his own words.

A morbid condition characterized by automatic and purposeless repetition of words or imitation of actions.

other; a bucolic; an idyl; as, the Ecloques of Virgil, from which the modern usage of the word has been established.

ss. [Obs.] That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy. Shak. Our words will but increase his ecstasy. Marlowe.

The dropping out or suppression from a word of a consonant, with or without a vowel.

ove as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle. Eddying round and round they sink. Wordsworth.

The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument; as, the edge of an ax, knife, sword, or scythe. Hence, figuratively, that which cuts as an edge does, or wounds deeply, etc. He which hath the sharp sword with two edges. Rev. ii. 12. Slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword. Shak.

Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.

With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge. Glad to get in a word, as they say, edgeways. Sir W. Scott.

The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter edh, capital form th in a similar word: oedher, other, dôedh, doth." March.