eden

a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were driven from their paradise (the fall of man) ; any place of complete bliss and delight and peace ;

edentata

order of mammals having few or no teeth including: New World anteaters; sloths; armadillos ;

edentate

primitive terrestrial mammal with few if any teeth; of tropical Central America and South America ;

ederle

United States swimmer who in 1926 became the first woman to swim the English Channel (1906-2003) ;

edgar

the younger brother of Edwy who became king of Northumbria when it renounced Edwy; on Edwy's death he succeeded to the throne of England (944-975) ;

edgar albert guest

United States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959) ;

edgar allan poe

United States writer and poet (1809-1849) ;

edgar degas

French impressionist painter (1834-1917) ;

edgar douglas adrian

English physiologist who conducted research into the function of neurons; 1st baron of Cambridge (1889-1997) ;

edgar guest

United States journalist (born in England) noted for his syndicated homey verse (1881-1959) ;

edgar lee masters

United States poet (1869-1950) ;

edgar rice burroughs

United States novelist and author of the Tarzan stories (1875-1950) ;

edgar varese

United States composer (born in France) whose music combines dissonance with complex rhythms and the use of electronic techniques (1883-1965) ;

edgar wallace

English writer noted for his crime novels (1875-1932) ;

edgard lawrence doctorow

United States novelist (born in 1931) ;

edge

a sharp side formed by the intersection of two surfaces of an object; "he rounded the edges of the box" ; a strip near the boundary of an object; "he jotted a note on the margin of the page" ; a slight competitive advantage; "he had an edge on the competition" ; the attribute of urgency; "his voice had an edge to it" ; the boundary of a surface ; a line determining the limits of an area ;

edge tool

any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge) ;

edger

garden tool for cutting grass around the edges of a yard ; a person who puts finishing edges on a garment ;

edgeworth-kuiper belt

a disk-shaped region of minor planets outside the orbit of Neptune ;

edginess

feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable ;

edging

border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug) ;

edibility

the property of being fit to eat ;

edible

any substance that can be used as food ;

edible-pod pea

a variety of pea plant producing peas having soft thick edible pods lacking the fibrous inner lining of the common pea ;

edible-podded pea

a variety of pea plant producing peas having soft thick edible pods lacking the fibrous inner lining of the common pea ;

edible asparagus

plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable ;

edible banana

widely cultivated species of banana trees bearing compact hanging clusters of commercially important edible yellow fruit ;

edible bean

any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food ;

edible cockle

common edible European cockle ;

edible corn

ears of corn grown for human food ;

edible fat

oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue ;

edible fruit

edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh ;

edible mussel

a mussel with a dark shell that lives attached to rocks ;

edible nut

a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell ;

edible sea urchin

a sea urchin that can be eaten ;

edible seed

many are used as seasoning ;

edible snail

one of the chief edible snails ;

edibleness

the property of being fit to eat ;

edict

a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there" ; a formal or authoritative proclamation ;

edification

uplifting enlightenment ;