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n. [ L. edacitas. ] Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., or . A mild Dutch pressed cheese of yellow color and fine flavor, made in balls weighing three or four pounds, and usually colored crimson outside; -- so called from the village of Edam, near Amsterdam. Also, cheese of the same type, wherever made. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. an extinct heavy-bodied reptile of the late Paleozoic having a dorsal sail or crest. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Eddas [ Icel., lit. great-grandmother (i. e., of Scandinavian poetry), so called by Bishop Brynjúlf Sveinsson, who brought it again to light in 1643. ] The religious or mythological book of the old Scandinavian tribes of German origin, containing two collections of Sagas (legends, myths) of the old northern gods and heroes. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ There are two Eddas. The older, consisting of 39 poems, was reduced to writing from oral tradition in Iceland between 1050 and 1133. The younger or prose Edda, called also the Edda of Snorri, is the work of several writers, though usually ascribed to Snorri Sturleson, who was born in 1178.

n. [ See Adder. ] (Zoöl.) An adder or serpent. [ Prov. Eng. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bind the top interweaving edder; as, to edder a hedge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. edor hedge, fence; akin to etar. ] Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together. [ Obs. ] Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. Relating to the Eddas; resembling the Eddas. [ 1913 Webster ]