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Word Meanings - EDIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. Bacon. -- n.

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  • BACON
    The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
  • BACONIAN
    Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
  • EATABLE
    Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible. -- n.
  • EDIBLENESS
    Suitableness for being eaten.
  • EDIBLE
    Fit to be eaten as food; eatable; esculent; as, edible fishes. Bacon. -- n.
  • ESCULENT
    Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish. Esculent grain for food. Sir W. Jones. Esculent swallow , the swallow which makes the edible bird's- nest. See Edible bird's-nest, under Edible.
  • INCREDIBLENESS
    Incredibility.
  • WINTER-BEATEN
    Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
  • CHEATABLE
    Capable of being cheated.
  • THREATEN
    1. To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
  • UNCREDIBLE
    Incredible. Bacon.
  • OBEDIBLE
    Obedient. Bp. Hall.
  • UNCOMEATABLE
    Not to be come at, or reached; inaccessible. Addison. My honor is infallible and uncomeatable. Congreve.
  • CHEATABLENESS
    Capability of being cheated.
  • INTREATABLE
    Not to be entreated; inexorable.
  • CREDIBLE
    Capable of being credited or believed; worthy of belief; entiled to confidence; trustworthy. Things are made credible either by the known condition and quality of the utterer or by the manifest likelihood of truth in themselves. Hooker.
  • TREATABLE
    Manageable; tractable; hence, moderate; not violent. " A treatable disposition, a strong memory." R. Parr. A kind of treatable dissolution. Hooker. The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable than with us. Sir W. Temple.
  • ESCHEATABLE
    Liable to escheat.
  • CREATABLE
    That may be created.
  • THREATENER
    One who threatens. Shak.
  • BEATEN
    1. Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use. "A broad and beaten way." Milton. "Beaten gold." Shak. 2. Vanquished; conquered; baffled. 3. Exhausted; tired out. 4. Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase. 5. Tried; practiced. Beau.

 

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