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Eider. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1897, rev. 2025. Eider sb. Also 8–9 edder. [Ultimately a. Icel. æðar (pron. aiðăr), genit. of æð-r eider-duck, in the comb. æðar-dún eider-down. The continental forms, Sw. † eider, now ejder(-gås), Da. eder(-fugl), Ger. eider(-ente), are similarly adopted from. Icel. The present Eng. spelling is probably from the Sw. used by Von Troil.]

1   1.  A species of duck, Somateria mollissima, abundant in the Arctic regions, that lines its nest with EIDER-DOWN; also, King-eider (Somateria spectabilis). Chiefly attrib., as in eider-bird, -duck, EIDER-DOWN.

2 1743.  in Phil. Trans., XLII. 612. Amongst the Sea-birds are the Edder, Ducks of Three Kinds.

3 1780.  Von Troil, Iceland, 143. The eider-bird is yet more useful to the natives.

4 1852.  D. Moir, Fowler, viii. The eider ducks, With their wild eyes, and necks of changeful blue.

5 1863.  Kingsley, Water-bab., 269. Swans and brantgeese, harlequins and eiders.

6 1864.  [H. W. Wheelwright], Spring in Lapl., 384. The king eider and Barrow’s Iceland duck are only occasionally seen in the autumn.

7   2.  The down itself.

8 1766.  Pennant, Zool. (1812), II. 243. The down known by the name of Eider or Edder which these birds furnish.

9   3.  attrib. or adj. Resembling eider-down.

10 1791.  E. Darwin, Bot. Gard., II. 18. Sleep protects him with his eider wings.

11 1848.  Kingsley, Saint’s Trag., III. ii. 259. Beneath her eider robe the … earth Watches … for the sun.

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