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Dividend; share. [Obs.] Foxe.

See Edentate, a. -- n. (Zoöl.)

See Edentate, a.

An order of mammals including the armadillos, sloths, and anteaters; -- called also Bruta. The incisor teeth are rarely developed, and in some groups all the teeth are lacking.

Destitute of teeth; as, an edentate quadruped; an edentate leaf.

Same as Edentate, a.

A depriving of teeth. [R.] Cockeram.

Toothless.

A medicine which eats away extraneous growths; a caustic.

understanding, and satisfactory to the judgment; as, the figure or color of a body is evident to the senses; the guilt of an offender can not always be made evident. Your honor and your goodness is so evident. Shak. And in our faces evident the sings Of foul concupiscence. Milton.

ce; indicative; especially, relating to the evidences of Christianity. Bp. Fleetwood. "Evidential tracks." Earle.. -- Ev`i*den"tial*ly, adv.

Furnishing evidence; asserting; proving; evidential. When a fact is supposed, although incorrectly, to be evidentiary of, a mark of, some other fact. J. S. Mill.

In an evident manner; clearly; plainly. Before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth. Gal. iii. 1. He has evidently in the prime of youth. W. Irving.

State of being evident.

Excess. [R.]

Eating out; consuming. [R.]

An instrument or agent causing explosion; an exploder; also, an explosive.

Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree. [R.]

Identical. [Obs.] Hudibras.

The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing. I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction . . . that I, the same identical person who now remember that event, did then exist. Reid.