Chapter Economy of Nature to Edyrn of E by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

(W. Hepworth Dixon: New America, i. 16.)
    The present and proper form of this word is Adobe (Spanish, adobar, plaster).

"They make adobes, or sun-dried bricks, by mixing ashes and earth with water, which is then moulded into large blocks and dried in the sun." - Bancroft: Native Races, vol. i. p. 535.

Edward Edward the Confessor's sword. Curtana (the cutter), a blunt sword of state, emblematical of mercy.
   The Chevalier Prince Charles Edward. The Young Pretender. Introduced by Sir Walter Scott in Redgauntlet, first as "Father Buonaventura," and afterwards as Pretender to the Crown. Again in Waverley.

Edwidge Wife of William Tell. (Rossini's opera of Guglielmo Tell.)

Edwin The hero of Beattie's Minstrel.

"And yet poor Edwin was no vulgar boy;
Deep thought oft seemed to fix his infant eye,
Dainties he heeded not, nor gaud, nor toy,
Save one short pipe of rudest minstrelsy;
Silent when glad; affectionate, though shy.
And now his look was most demurely sad;
And now he laughed aloud, yet none knew why.
The neighbours stared and sighed, yet blessed the lad;
Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad."
Canto i. 16.

Edyrn Son of Nudd; called the "Sparrowhawk." He ousted the Earl of Yniol from his earldom, and tried to win E'nid, the earl's daughter, but failing in this, became the evil genius of the gentle earl. Being overthrown in a tournament by Prince Geraint', he was sent to the court of King Arthur, where his whole nature was completely changed, and "subdued to that gentleness which, when it weds with manhood, makes a man." (Idylls of the King; Enid.)