n. the final, decisive battle between the forces of good and evil, as foretold in the Apocolypse of Saint John. Also, the site of that battle. Used metaphorically for a vast and decisive conflict, attended by cataclysmic destruction. [ PJC ]

a. Provided with a bed; as, double-bedded room; placed or arranged in a bed or beds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an ornamental plant suitable for planting in a flowerbed.
Syn. -- bedding plant. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ AS. bedding, beding. See Bed. ] 1. A bed and its furniture; the materials of a bed, whether for man or beast; bedclothes; litter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) The state or position of beds and layers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Bloodshed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to, or made at, Cheddar, in England; as, Cheddar cheese. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To mix; to mingle, to temper. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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.

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

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

n. [ AS. edisc; cf. AS. pref. ed- again, anew. Cf. Eddy, and Arrish. ] Aftermath; also, stubble and stubble field. See Arrish. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. (Bot.) The tubers of Colocasia antiquorum. See Taro. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Eddies [ Prob. fr. Icel. iða; cf. Icel. pref. ið- back, AS. ed-, OS. idug-, OHG. ita-; Goth. id-. ] 1. A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool. [ 1913 Webster ]

And smiling eddies dimpled on the main. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Used also adjectively; as, eddy winds. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Eddied p. pr. & vb. n. Eddying. ] To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Eddying round and round they sink. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To collect as into an eddy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The circling mountains eddy in
From the bare wild the dissipated storm. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Elec.) An induced electric current circulating wholly within a mass of metal; -- called also Foucault current. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Called also Malay kite. [ After William A. Eddy, American kite expert. ] A quadrilateral, tailless kite, with convex surfaces exposed to the wind. This kite was extensively used by Eddy in his famous meteorological experiments. It is now generally superseded by the box kite. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ W., session, fr. eistedd to sit. ] An assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, -- being a patriotic revival of the old custom. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. enclosed or fixed firmly in a surrounding mass; surrounded on all sides; as, found pebbles embedded in the silt; stone containing many embedded fossils; as, peach and plum seeds embedded in a sweet edible pulp. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- fixed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. inserted as an integral part of a surrounding whole; as, confused by the embedded Latin quotations; an embedded subordinate clause. [ wns=2 ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The European pike. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Heddles [ Cf. Heald. ] (Weaving) One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To draw (the warp thread) through the heddle-eyes, in weaving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Weaving) The eye or loop formed in each heddle to receive a warp thread. [ 1913 Webster ]

vb. n. The act of drawing the warp threads through the heddle-eyes of a weaver's harness; the harness itself. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ OE. entremedlen, entermellen, to mix together, OF. entremedler, entremeller, entremesler, F. entremêler. See Inter-, and Meddle. ] To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. [ 1913 Webster ]

The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon.

Syn. -- To interpose; interfere. See Interpose. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To intermix; to mingle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Many other adventures are intermeddled. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who meddles with, or intrudes into, the affairs of others. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inclined or disposed to intermeddle. -- In`ter*med"dle*some*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. The act of improperly interfering. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stone mason's tool, having a flat face and a pointed part. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Malay kedah, fr. Ar. qadah hole. ] An inclosure constructed to entrap wild elephants; an elephant trap. [ India ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖pos>n. pl. [ Dan. ] See Kitchen middens. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. [ AS. lēden, l&ymacr_;den, language, speech. Cf. Leod. ] Language; speech; voice; cry. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or process of disconnecting the electric current on certain lines when the demand becomes greater than the supply. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To mix; to mingle. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

“Wine meddled with gall.” Wyclif (Matt. xxvii. 34). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Meddled p. pr. & vb. n. Meddling ] [ OE. medlen to mix, OF. medler, mesler, F. mêler, LL. misculare, a dim. fr. L. miscere to mix. √271. See Mix, and cf. Medley, Mellay. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To mix; to mingle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

More to know
Did never meddle with my thoughts. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- in a good sense. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business. Tyndale. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To interest or engage one's self unnecessarily or impertinently, to interfere or busy one's self improperly with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub another's property without permission; -- often followed by with or in. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt? 2 Kings xiv. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

The civil lawyers . . . have meddled in a matter that belongs not to them. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

To meddle and make, to intrude one's self into another person's concerns. [ Archaic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To interpose; interfere; intermeddle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive. -- Med"dle*some*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

a. Meddlesome. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a meddling manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Adder. ] (Zool.) An adder. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Neddies (Zool.) A pet name for a donkey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To meddle unduly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Excessive interference. “Justly shent for their overmeddling.” Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ From Peddler. ] 1. To travel about with wares for sale; to go from place to place, or from house to house, for the purpose of retailing goods; as, to peddle without a license. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To do a small business; to be busy about trifles; to piddle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Peddled p. pr. & vb. n. Peddling ] To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around from customer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very small quantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. pedlere, pedlare, also peddare, peoddare, fr. OE. ped a basket, of unknown origin. ] One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker. [ Written also pedlar and pedler. ] “Some vagabond huckster or peddler.” Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]