edible (edibl)

and n. [ plied to be habitually gaten by man, or specially fit to be eaten, among similar things not fit for eating: as, edible birds'-nests; edible crabs; edible sea-urchins. Of fishes some are edible; some, except it be in famine, Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 859. not. The edible Creation decks the Board. Prior, Solomon, ii. II. n. Anything that may be eaten for food; an article of food; an eatable; a constituent of a meal: generally in the plural: as, bring forward the edibles .