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To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. "To eat grass as oxen." Dan. iv. 25. They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead. Ps. cvi. 28. The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine. Gen. xli. 20. The lion had not eaten the carcass. 1 Kings xiii. 28. With stori…

Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible. -- n.

Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath.

One who, or that which, eats.

Easy or easily. [Obs.] "Eath to move with plaints." Fairfax.

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.

To lay bare, as the roots of a tree. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle.

Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate.

Aftergrass.

Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract. Bouvier.

See Allineation.

To align. [R.] Herschel.

Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young.

Formed or vaulted like a beehive.

A salt formed by the combination of ambreic acid with a base or positive radical.

An oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats about an open space called the arena.

Amphitheatrical; resembling an amphitheater.

Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.