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A rail set edgewise. Edgerton, in Ohio, a post-village of Williams cc., about 64 m. W. by S. of Toledo. Edgerton, in Wisconsin , a city of Rock co., on C., M. & St. P. R. R., 25 m. S. E. of Madison. In the center of an important tobacco-raising district, of which product large quantities are shipped. Pop . (1897) about 2,100. Edge-tool, n. A tool or instrument po e ing a sharp edge; also used figuratively. "There must be no jesting with edge- tools .-L'Estrange. Edgewise ( ěj - wiz ), adv . With the edge turned forward, or toward a particular point; in the direction of the edge; sideways; with the side foremost. Edge'wood, in Illinois , a post-town of Effing ham co. Edge'wood, in Maryland , a post-office of Harford co. Edge'worth, in Penna ., a former P. O. of Bucks co. Edge/worth, MARIA, a celebrated Irish novelist, born in Berks hire, 1766. She was the daughter of Richard Lovell E. , an author of some merit, and was greatly a isted by him in her early literary efforts. The famous E ay on Irish Bulls , the joint production of herself and her father, was published in 1801. Her Castle Rack rent abounds in admirable sketches of Irish life and manners, for which most of her tales and novels are distinguished. In 1804 she published her Popular Tales , 3 vols.; and two years afterwards, Leonora, a novel in 2 vols. In 1809 she i ued 3 vols. of Tales of Fashionable Life , of a more powerful and varied cast than any of her previous productions. Three other vols. of Fash i on able Tales appeared in 1812, and fully sustained the high reputation which she had attained. In 1814 her novel of Patronage , in 4 vols., was published. Its object is to show the miseries resulting from a dependence on the great, and she paints the manners and characters of high life with her usual vigor and fidelity. In 1817 appeared two tales, named Harrington and Ormond. In 1822, Mi Edge worth published a work of a different kind, namely, Rosamond, a sequel to Early Le ons, which had been previously published, being tales for the young. In 1825 she i ued 4 vols. of similar tales, under the title of Harriet and Lucy , being a continuation of that course of moral instruction for youthful readers on which she had so succe fully entered, and in which she had so few equals. Mi Edge worth's last work of fiction, a novel entitled Helen , in 3 vols., appeared in 1834. It is not inferior to any of her other works. Besides those already mentioned, she also wrote Tie Modern Gricelda , Frank , Garry Owen, Laurent le Pare eux , Little Plays Fig. 907.-EDGE WORTH'S-TOWN. for Young People , Moral Tales , Parents' A istant, Patronage, and Comic Dramas, . Sir Walter Scott, with whom she lived in the closest friendship, has acknowledged that to her descriptions of Irish character and manners we are indebted, in a great measure, for the "Waverley Novels." "The rich humour, pathetic tenderne and admirable tact" of her Irish delineations, he declared, led him first to think that something might be attempted for his own country of the same kind. In private life, Mi Edge worth was highly beloved and re tum, to speak.] ( Hist .) An instrument signed and sealed to serve as a law. - In ancient Rome the name was given to the ordinances of the magistrates, but especially of the two prætors, prætor urban us and pra tor peregrin us, who on their acce ion to office published edicts or rules for regulating the practice of their courts, as well as for their own guidance in the decision of doubtful cases. Under the emperor Hadrian, a digest of the best decisions of the prætors from the earliest times was made by Sylvius Julian us, collected into a volume called Edictum Perpetuum, or Perpetual Edict, ratified by the emperor and senate, and fixed as the invariable standard of civil jurisprudence. (Gibbon's Roman Empire , ch. xliv.) - The Edict of Milan was a proclamation i ued by Const an tine after the conquest of Italy (A. D. 313), to secure to the Christians the restitution of their civil and religious rights, of which they had long been deprived, and to establish throughout his extended dominions the principles of a wise and enlightened toleration. The most famous edict of modern history is the Edict of Nantes, i ued by Henry IV. in 1598, to secure to the Protestants the free exercise of their religion. This act, after continuing in force for nearly a century, was repealed by Louis XIV.; and, as is well known, its revocation led to a renewal of the persecutions against the Protestants. The depopulation caused by the sword was also increased by emigration. Above half a million of her most useful and industrious subjects deserted France, and exported, together with immense sums of money, those arts and manufactures which had chiefly tended to enrich the kingdom. Edict'al, a . Relating or pertaining to an edict or edicts. Edificant, a . [Lat. from ædificare .] Constructing; erecting; building. Edification, n. [Lat. ædificatio . See EDIFY.] A building up, in a moral or religious sense; instruction; improvement and progre of the mind, in knowledge, in morals, or in faith and holine ; improvement of the mind in any species of useful knowledge. Edifice, ( ed'i - fis ,) n. [Fr., from Lat. ædificium . EDIFY. A fabric; but appropriately a large or splendid building. See IMG:content-0737.png:[blocks in formation] -v. n. To be built up, in a moral or religious sense; to be instructed or improved; to become wiser or better. Ed'ifyingly, adv . In an edifying manner. Ed'ifyingne , n . Quality of being edifying. Edile, n . See ÆDILE. E'din, in Okio, a village of Delaware co., abt. 30 m. N. of Columbus. Edi'na, in Mi ouri , a post-village and township, cap. of Knox co., on the South Fabius river, 125 m. N. of Jefferson city. Pop . (1897) about 1,650. Ed'in borough, in North Carolina, a former post-office of Montgomery co. Ed'in borough, in Pennsylvania , a post-borough of Erie co., on Conniattee creek, 20 m. S. of Erie. Pop . (1897) about 1,350, Ed'in burgh, the capital of Scotland, situated 357 m. N.N.W. from London, and 2 miles S. from the Frith of Forth; Lat. 55° 57′ 24" N., Lon. 3° 11′ W. It stands on high, uneven ground, being built on three ridges running E. and W. The central ridge, on which the city was originally built, terminates abruptly, on the W., in a precipitous rock nearly 400 feet above the level of the sea, on which is the castle, (Fig 908,) while to the E. it inclines to a plain or valley. On the rising ground to the N. of this valley stands the new town of E. In the old town, covering both sides of the central ridge, the buildings are crowded together in the closest array. The new town is built on the lower and northernmost of the ridges, and is connected with the old town by the North Bridge and the Earthen Mound. Its streets and squares are of great beauty and regularity. E. is connected with the Calton Hill and Prince's Street by an elegant bridge, called Waterloo Bridge, and with Leithe by a broad and fine road, called Leith Walk. The scenery around the city is very fine, and much has been done by art to develop its natural advantages. The Castle is the most remarkable of its public buildings. The date of its foundation is unknown. Queen Margaret, widow of Malcolm Caenmore, died in this fortre in 1093; and James VI. of Scotland, afterward James I. of England, was born in it in 1556. At the opposite or E. extremity of the old town stands the palace and abbey of Holyrood, q. v. Of the churches, the metropolitan church, dedicated to St. Giles, the tutelar saint of the Fig . 908. CASTLE OF EDINBURGH. city, is the most ancient. It was erected into a collegiate church in 1466, but is said to have been founded nearly 600 years before. It was in old Grey friars' church, in 1638, that the Solemn League and Covenant was first signed, and subscribed in 1643, in St. Giles' church, by the English commi ioners, the commi ion of the Church and the committee of estates of Parliament. The other churches are Trinity College Church, founded by Mary of Guelder land in 1462; the Old and New Grey friars, the Tron, the Can on gate, St. Cuthbert's, Lady Yester's, St. Andrew's, and St. George's; and a number of other churches, chapels, and places of worship for the various sects and denominations of which the inhabitants consist. The university of Edinburgh has long since attained to general celebrity. It was originally tounded in the year 1582. Besides the High School, there are other educational establishments, affording every facility for the highest cla of instruction that can anywhere be obtained, in almost every department of knowledge. Among these may be named the Edinburgh Academy, the Scottish Naval and Military Academy, and the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. Of literary a ociations, the principal is the Royal Society, instituted in 1782; the Royal Society of Antiquaries, the Wernerian Society, and the Astronomical Institution, for the purpose of promoting the science of astronomy, with an observatory on the Calton Hill; the Highland Society, established for advancing the interests of agriculture, manufactures, and arts in the Highlands of Scotland; the Faculty of Advocates, and the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons. The principal charitable institutions are Heriot's Hospital, and Watson's Hospital. The prison and Bridewell stand on the Calton Hill, on the top of which is Nelson's monument, and near to it other monuments to Dugald Stewart, Play fair, and Burns. That of Sir Walter Scott is in Prince's Street, and is a very striking object. The chief places of public amusement are the theatre and the A embly Rooms. - Manuf . Unimportant, and chiefly confined to the requirements of the citizens. The principal are household furniture, carriages, engraving in all its branches, musical instruments, gla , linen, silk, sarcenet, and fine shawl-weaving. The trade of bookselling and printing is carried on to a great extent; and various periodical and other works of high celebrity are published. Among these may be mentioned the Edin burgh Review (the first number of which appeared in 1802), and Blackwood's Magazine . E. was founded in the 7th century, and was described as a considerable village in the 8th. Pop . (1891) 261,260. Ed'in burgh, in Indiaua ; a post-town of Johnson co., on Blue river, 10 m. N. of Columbus; on P., C., C. & St. L. R. R. Has considerable manufacturing interests and a good local trade. Pop . (1897) about 2,650. Ed'in burgh, in Maine, a township of Penobscot co., about 25 m. N. E. of August a. Ed'in burgh, in Michigan, a former P. O. of Hills dale county. Ed'in burgh, in Mi i ippi, a post-village of Leake co., about 76 m. N. E. of Jackson. Ed'in burgh, in Mi ouri, a post-town of Grundy co. -A village of Scotland co., about 140 m. N. of Jefferson City. Ed'in burgh, in New Jersey, a post-village of Mercer co., about 9 m. E. N. E. of Trenton. Edinburgh. in North Dakota, a post-village of Walsh co., 22 m. W. by N. of Grafton. Ed'in burgh, in New York , a post-town of Saratoga co., about 45 m. N N. W. of Albany. Ed'in burgh, in Ohio , a post-town and township of Portage co., about 140 m. N. E. of Columbns. -A village of Wayne co., about 80 nm. N. E. of Columbus. Ed'in burgh, in Tezas , a village and port of entry of Cameron co., on the Rio Grande. -A post-village, cap. of Hidalgo co., on the Rio Grande, about 60 m. above Brownsville. Ed'in burghs hire, or Mid loth i an, a county of Scotland, having on the N. the Frith of Forth and the river Almond; E. the co. of Hadding ton; S. the cos. of Lanark, Peebles, and Berwick: and on the W. corner a part of the co. of Linlithgow. Area , 338 sq. m. Surface , pleasing, fertile, and highly cultivated, but intersected by the Moorfoot and Pentland hills. The Lothian farms are among the best in the world. Rivers. Small; the chief are the Esk, the Almond, the Water of Leith, and the Tyne. Prod. Wheat, barley, and general crops. Min . Coal, iron, sandstone, and limestone. Cup . Edinburgh. Pop . (1897) 451,450. Ed'ington, in Illinois, a post-office and township of Rock Island co. Edis'to River, in S. C., formed by the union of the N. and S. Edisto, flowing S.E., enters the Atlantic Ocean. Ed'it, v. a. [Lat, edo, editum-e, ez, and do , to give.] To superintend a publication; to prepare a book, treatise, or newspaper for publication; to conduct or manage, as a periodical or literary publication.