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DESCRIPTIV, E, adjective Containing description; tending to describe; having the quality of representing; as a descriptive figure; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age.
Each
EACH, adjective Every one of any number separately considered or treated.
To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment. .
And the princes of Israel, being twelve men, each one was for the house of his fathers. .
Simeon and Levi took each man his sword. .
The emperor distributed to each soldier in his army a liberal donative.
To each corresponds other. Let each esteem other better than himself. It is our duty to assist each other; that is, it is our duty to assist, each to assist the other.
Eachwhere
E'ACHWHERE, adverb Every where.
Ead
EAD, ED, in names, is a Saxon word signifying happy, fortunate; as in Edward, happy preserver; Edgar, happy power; Edwin, happy conqueror; Eadulph, happy assistance; like Macarius and Eupolemus in Greek and Fausta, Fortunatus, Felicianus, in Latin.
Eadish
E'ADISH, noun The latter pasture or grass that comes after mowing or reaping; called also eagrass, earsh, etch. [Not used, I believe, in America.]
Eager
E'AGER, adjective [Latin acer, fierce, brisk, sharp, sour; acus, Eng.edge.]
1. Excited by ardent desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform or obtain; inflamed by desire; ardently wishing or longing. The soldiers were eager to engage the enemy. Men are eager in the pursuit of wealth. The lover is eager to possess the object of his affections.
2. Ardent; vehement; impetuous; as eager spirits; eager zeal; eager clamors.
3. Sharp; sour; acid; as eager droppings into milk. [Little used.]
4. Sharp; keen; biting; severe; as eager air; eager cold. [Little used.]
5. Brittle; inflexible; not ductile; as, the gold is too eager [Local.]
Eagerly
E'AGERLY, adverb With great ardor of desire; ardently; earnestly; warmly; with prompt zeal; as, he eagerly flew to the assistance of his friend.
1. Hastily; impetuously.
2. Keenly; sharply.
Eagerness
E'AGERNESS, noun Ardent desire to do, pursue or obtain any thing; animated zeal; vehement longing; ardor of inclination. Men pursue honor with eagerness Detraction is often received with eagerness With eagerness the soldier rushes to battle. The lover's eagerness often disappoints his hopes.
1. Tartness; sourness.
Eagle
E'AGLE, noun [Latin aquila.]
1. A rapacious fowl of the genus Falco. The beak is crooked and furnished with a cere at the base, and the tongue is cloven or bifid. There are several species, as, the bald or white-headed eagle the sea eagle or ossifrage, the golden eagle etc.
The eagle is one of the largest species of fowls, has a keen sight, and preys on small animals, fish, etc. He lives to a great age; and it is said that one died at Vienna, after a confinement of a hundred and four years. On account of the elevation and rapidity of his flight, and of his great strength, he is called the king of birds. Hence the figure of an eagle was made the standard of the Romans, and a spread eagle is a principal figure in the arms of the United States of America. Hence also in heraldry, it is one of the most noble bearings in armory.
2. A gold coin of the United States, of the value of ten dollars, or forty-five shillings sterling.
3. A constellation in the northern hemisphere, having its right wing contiguous to the equinoctial.
Eagle-Eyed
E'AGLE-EYED, adjective Sharpsighted as an eagle; having an acute sight.
1. Discerning; having acute intellectual vision.
Eagle-Sighted
E'AGLE-SIGHTED, adjective Having acute sight.
Eagle-Speed
E'AGLE-SPEED, noun Swiftness like that of an eagle.
Eagle-Stone
E'AGLE-STONE, noun Etite, a variety of argillaceous oxyd of iron, occurring in masses varying from the size of a walnut to that of a man's head. Their form is spherical, oval or nearly reniform, or sometimes like a parallelopiped with rounded edges and angles. They have a rough surface, and are essentially composed of concentric layers. These nodules often embrace at the center a kernel or nucleus, sometimes movable, and always differing from the exterior in color, density and fracture. To these hollow nodules the ancients gave the name of eagle-stones, from an opinion that the eagle transported them to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs.
Eagle-Winged
E'AGLE-WINGED, adjective Having the wings of an eagle; swift as an eagle.
Eagless
E'AGLESS, noun A female or hen eagle.
Eaglet
E'AGLET, noun A young eagle or a diminutive eagle.
Eagre
EA'GRE, noun A tide swelling above another tide, as in the Severn.
Ealderman
EALDERMAN. [See Alderman.]
Eame
EAME, noun Uncle.
Ean
EAN, verb transitive or i. To yean. [See Yean.]
Eanling
E'ANLING, noun A lamb just brought forth. [Not used.]
Ear
E'AR, noun [Latin auris, whence auricula; audio.]
1. The organ of hearing; the organ by which sound is perceived; and in general, both the external and internal part is understood by the term. The external ear is a cartilaginous funnel, attached, by ligaments and muscles, to the temporal bone.
2. The sense of hearing, or rather the power of distinguishing sounds and judging of harmony; the power of nice perception of the differences of sound, or of consonances and dissonances. She has a delicate ear for music, or a good ear
3. In the plural, the head or person.
It is better to pass over an affront from one scoundrel, than to draw a herd about one's ears.
4. The top, or highest part.
The cavalier was up to the ears in love.
5. A favorable hearing; attention; heed; regard. Give no
ear to flattery.
I cried to God--and he gave ear to me. .
He could not gain the prince's ear
6. Disposition to like or dislike what is heard; opinion; judgment; taste.
He laid his sense closer--according to the style and ear of those times.
7. Any part of a thing resembling an ear; a projecting part from the side of any thing; as the ears of a vessel used as handles.
8. The spike of corn; that part of certain plants which contains the flowers and seeds; as an ear of wheat or maiz.
To be by the ears, ------------------
To fall together by the ears, ------- to fight or scuffle; to
To go together by the ears, --------- quarrel.
To set by the ears, to make strife; to cause to quarrel.
EAR, verb intransitive To shoot, as an ear; to form ears, as corn.
EAR, verb transitive [Latin aro.] To plow or till.
Ear-Bored
E'AR-BORED, adjective Having the ear perforated.
Ear-Deafening
E'AR-DEAFENING, adjective Stunning the ear with noise.
Ear-Erecting
EAR-ERECT'ING, adjective Setting up the ears.
Ear-Piercing
E'AR-PIERCING, adjective Piercing the ear, as a shrill or sharp sound.
Ear-Witness
E'AR-WITNESS, noun One who is able to give testimony to a fact from his own hearing.
Earable
E'ARABLE, adjective Used to be tilled.
Earache
E'ARACHE, noun [See Ache.] Pain in the ear.
Earal
E'ARAL, adjective Receiving by the ear. [Not used.]
Eared
E'ARED, participle passive Having ears; having spikes formed, as corn.
Earing
E'ARING, noun In seamen's language, a small rope employed to fasten the upper corner of a sail to its yard.
E'ARING, noun A plowing of land. .
Earl
EARL, noun erl.
A British title of nobility, or a nobleman, the third in rank, being next below a marquis, and next above a viscount. The title answers to count [compte] in France, and graaf in Germany. The earl formerly had the government of a shire, and was called shireman. After the conquest earls were called counts, and from them shires have taken the name of counties. earl is now a mere title, unconnected with territorial jurisdiction.
Earl-Marshal
EARL-M'ARSHAL, noun An officer in Great Britain, who has the superintendence of military solemnities. He is the eighth great officer of state. The office was originally conferred by grant of the king, but is now hereditary in the family of the Howards.
Earlap
E'ARLAP, noun The tip of the ear.
Earldom
EARLDOM, noun erl'dom. The seignory, jurisdiction or dignity of an earl.
Earles-Penny
EARLES-PENNY, noun Money given in part payment. [Latin arrha.] [Not in use.]
Earless
E'ARLESS, adjective Destitute of ears; disinclined to hear or listen.
Earliness
EARLINESS, noun er'liness. [See Early and Ere.]
A state of advance or forwardness; a state of being before anything, or at the beginning; as the earliness of rising in the morning is a rising at the dawn of the morning, or before the usual time of rising. So we speak of the earliness of spring, or the earliness of plants, to express a state somewhat in advance of the usual time of spring, or growth of plants.
Earlock
E'ARLOCK, noun A lock or curl of hair, near the ear.
Early
EARLY, adjective er'ly. [Eng.ere.]
1. In advance of something else; prior in time; forward; as early fruit, that is, fruit that comes to maturity before other fruit; early growth; early manhood; early old age or decrepitude, that is, premature old age. So an early spring; an early harvest.
2. First; being at the beginning; as early dawn.
3. Being in good season; as, the court met at an early hour.
EARLY, adverb er'ly. Soon; in good season; betimes; as, rise early; come early; begin early to instill into children principles of piety.
Those who seek me early shall find me. .
Earmark
E'ARMARK, noun A mark on the ear, by which a sheep is known.
E'ARMARK, verb transitive To mark, as sheep by cropping or slitting the ear.
Earn
EARN, verb transitive ern.
1. To merit or deserve by labor, or by any performance; to do that which entitles to a reward, whether the reward is received or not. Men often earn money or honor which they never receive.
EARN money before you spend it, and spend less than you earn
2. To gain by labor, service or performance; to deserve and receive as compensation; as, to earn a dollar a day; to earn a good living; to earn honors or laurels.
Earned
EARNED, participle passive ern'ed. Merited by labor or performance; gained.
Earnest
EARNEST, adjective ern'est.
1. Ardent in the pursuit of an object; eager to obtain; having a longing desire; warmly engaged or incited.
They are never more earnest to disturb us, than when they see us most earnest in this duty.
2. Ardent; warm; eager; zealous; animated; importunate; as earnest in love; earnest in prayer.
3. Intent; fixed.
On that prospect strange
Their earnest eyes were fixed.
4. Serious; important; that is, really intent or engaged; whence the phrase, in earnest To be in earnest is to be really urging or stretching towards an object; intent on a pursuit. Hence, from fixed attention, comes the sense of seriousness in the pursuit, as opposed to trifling or jest. Are you in earnest or in jest?
EARNEST, noun ern'est. Seriousness; a reality; a real event; as opposed to jesting or feigned appearance.
Take heed that this jest do not one day turn to earnest
And given in earnest what I begg'd in jest.
1. First fruits; that which is in advance, and gives promise of something to come. Early fruit may be an earnest of fruit to follow. The first success in arms may be an earnest of future success. The christian's peace of mind in this life is an earnest of future peace and happiness. Hence earnest or earnest-money is a first payment or deposit giving promise or assurance of full payment. Hence the practice of giving an earnest to ratify a bargain.
This sense of the word is primary, denoting that which goes before, or in advance. Thus the earnest of the spirit is given to saints, as a pledge or assurance of their future enjoyment of God's presence and favor.
Earnestly
EARNESTLY, adverb ern'estly. Warmly; zealously; importunately; eagerly; with real desire.
Being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly .
That ye should earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints. .
2. With fixed attention; with eagerness.
A certain maid looked earnestly upon him. .
Earnestness
EARNESTNESS, noun ern'estness. Ardor or zeal in the pursuit of any thing; eagerness; animated desire; as, to seek or ask with earnestness; to engage in a work with earnestness
1. Anxious care; solicitude; intenseness of desire.
2. Fixed desire or attention; seriousness; as, the charge was maintained with a show of gravity and earnestness
Earnful
EARNFUL, adjective ern'ful. Full of anxiety. [Not used.]
Earning
EARNING, participle present tense ern'ing. Meriting by services; gaining by labor or performance.
EARNING, noun ern'ing.plu. earnings. That which is earned; that which is gained or merited by labor, services or performance; wages; reward. The folly of young men is to spend their earnings in dissipation or extravagance. It is wise for the poor to invest their earnings in a productive fund.
Earpick
E'ARPICK, noun An instrument for cleansing the ear.
Earring
E'ARRING, noun A pendant; an ornament, sometimes set with diamonds, pearls or other jewels, worn at the ear, by means of a ring passing through the lobe.
Earsh
EARSH, noun [See Ear, to plow.] A plowed field. [Not in use.]
Earshot
E'ARSHOT, noun Reach of the ear; the distance at which words may be heard.
Earth
EARTH, noun erth.
1. earth in its primary sense, signifies the particles which compose the mass of the globe, but more particularly the particles which form the fine mold on the surface of the globe; or it denotes any indefinite mass or portion of that matter. We throw up earth with a spade or plow; we fill a pit or ditch with earth; we form a rampart with earth This substance being considered, by ancient philosophers, as simple, was called an element; and in popular language, we still hear of the four elements, fire, air, earth, and water.
2. In chimistry, the term earth was, till lately, employed to denote a simple elementary body or substance, tasteless, inodorous, uninflammable and infusible. But it has also been applied to substances which have a very sensible alkaline taste, as lime. The primitive earths are reckoned ten in number, viz, silex, alumin, lime, magnesia, baryte, strontian, zircon, glucin, yttria and thorina. Recent experiments prove that most or all of them are compounds of oxygen with bases, some of which appear to possess the properties of metals. In this case the earths are to be considered as metallic oxyds.
3. The terraqueous globe which we inhabit. The earth is nearly spherical, but a little flatted at the poles, and hence its figure is called an oblate spheroid. It is one of the primary planets, revolving round the sun in an orbit which is between those of Venus and Mars. It is nearly eight thousand miles in diameter, and twenty five thousand miles in circumference. Its distance from the sun is about ninety five millions of miles, and its annual revolution constitutes the year of 365 days, 5 hours, and nearly 49 minutes.
4. The world, as opposed to other scenes of existence.
5. The inhabitants of the globe.
The whole earth was of one language. .
6. Dry land, opposed to the sea.
God called the dry land earth .
7. Country; region; a distinct part of the globe.
In this sense, land or soil is more generally used.
In scripture, earth is used for a part of the world. .
8. The ground; the surface of the earth He fell to the earth The ark was lifted above the earth
In the second month--was the earth dried.
9. In scripture, things on the earth are carnal, sensual, temporary things; opposed to heavenly, spiritual or divine things.
10. Figuratively, a low condition. .
11. [from ear, Latin aro, to plow.] The act of turning up the ground in tillage. [Not used.]
EARTH, verb transitive To hide in the earth
The fox is earthed.
1. To cover with earth or mold.
EARTH, verb intransitive To retire under ground; to burrow. Here foxes earthed.
Earth-Created
EARTH-CREA'TED, adjective Formed of earth.
Earthbag
EARTH'BAG, noun A bag filled with earth, used for defense in war.
Earthbank
EARTH'BANK, noun A bank or mound of earth.
Earthboard
EARTH'BOARD, noun The board of a plow that turns over the earth; the mold-board.
Earthborn
EARTH'BORN, adjective Born of the earth; terrigenous; springing originally from the earth; as the fabled earthborn giants.
1. Earthly; terrestrial.
All earthborn cares are wrong.
Earthbound
EARTH'BOUND, adjective Fastened by the pressure of the earth.
Earthbred
EARTH'BRED, adjective Low; abject; groveling.
Earthen
EARTH'EN, adjective erth'n. Made of earth; made of clay; as an earthen vessel; earthen ware.
Earthfed
EARTH'FED, adjective Low; abject.
Earthflax
EARTH'FLAX, noun Amianth; a fibrous, flexile, elastic mineral substance, consisting of short interwoven, or long parallel filaments.
Earthiness
EARTH'INESS, noun The quality of being earthy, or of containing earth; grossness.
Earthliness
EARTH'LINESS, noun [from earthly.] The quality of being earthly; grossness.
1. Worldliness; strong attachment to worldly things.
Earthling
EARTH'LING, noun An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal; a frail creature.
Earthly
EARTH'LY, adjective Pertaining to the earth, or to this world.
Our earthly house of this tabernacle. .
1. Not heavenly; vile; mean,
This earthly load
Of death called life.
2. Belonging to our present state; as earthly objects; earthly residence.
3. Belonging to the earth or world; carnal; vile; as opposed to spiritual or heavenly.
Whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things. .
4. Corporeal; not mental.
Earthly-Minded
EARTHLY-MINDED, adjective Having a mind devoted to earthly things.
Earthly-Mindedness
EARTHLY-MINDEDNESS, noun Grossness; sensuality; extreme devotedness to earthly objects.
Earthnut
EARTH'NUT, noun The groundnut, or root of the Arachis; a small round bulb or knob, like a nut. This root or bulb is formed from the germen, which becomes a pod and is thrust into the ground by a natural motion of the stalk.
It is properly the fruit of the plant, and differs from other fruit only in the circumstance of ripening in the earth.
EARTH'NUT, noun The pignut, or bunium; a globular root, somewhat resembling in taste a chestnut, whence it is called bulbocastanum.
Earthquake
EARTH'QUAKE, noun A shaking, trembling or concussion of the earth; sometimes a slight tremor; at other times a violent shaking or convulsion; at other times a rocking or heaving of the earth. Earthquakes are usually preceded by a rattling sound in the air, or by a subterraneous rumbling noise. Hence the name, earthdin, formerly given to an earthquake
Earthshaking
EARTH'SHAKING, adjective Shaking the earth; having power to shake the earth.
Earthworm
EARTH'WORM, noun The dew worm, a species of Lumbricus; a worm that lives under ground.
1. A mean sordid wretch.
Earthy
EARTH'Y, adjective Consisting of earth; as earthy matter.
1. Resembling earth; as an earthy taste or smell.
2. Partaking of earth; terrene.
3. Inhabiting the earth; terrestrial; as earthy spirits.
4. Relating to earth; as an earthy sign.
5. Gross; not refined; as an earthy conceit.
6. earthy fracture, in mineralogy, is when the fracture of a mineral is rough, with minute elevations and depressions.
Earwax
E'ARWAX, noun The cerumen; a thick viscous substance, secreted by the glands of the ear into the outer passage.
Earwig
E'ARWIG, noun A genus of insects of the order of Coleopters. The antennae are bristly; the elytra dimidiated; the wings covered; and the tail forked. This animal is called in Latin forficula, from the forceps at the end of the abdomen. The English name was given to it from an ill founded notion that the animal creeps into the ear and causes injury.
In New England, this name is vulgarly given to a species of centiped.
Ease
EASE, noun s as z. [Latin otium.]
1. Rest; an undisturbed state. Applied to the body, freedom from pain, disturbance, excitement or annoyance. He sits at his ease He takes his ease
2. Applied to the mind, a quiet state; tranquillity; freedom from pain, concern, anxiety, solicitude, or any thing that frets or ruffles the mind.
His soul shall dwell at ease .
Wo to them that are at ease in Zion. .
3. Rest from labor.
4. Facility; freedom from difficulty or great labor. One man will perform this service with ease This author writes with ease
5. Freedom from stiffness, harshness, forced expressions, or unnatural arrangement; as the ease of style.
6. Freedom from constraint or formality; unaffectedness; as ease of behavior.
At ease in an undisturbed state; free from pain or anxiety.
EASE
, verb transitive To free from pain or any disquiet or annoyance, as the body; to relieve; to give rest to; as, the medicine has eased the patient.
1. To free from anxiety, care or disturbance, as the mind; as, the late news has eased my mind.
2. To remove a burden from, either of body or mind; to relieve; with of. ease me of this load; ease them of their burdens.
3. To mitigate; to alleviate; to assuage; to abate or remove in part any burden, pain, grief, anxiety or disturbance.
EASE thou somewhat the grievous servitude of thy father. .
4. To quiet; to allay; to destroy; as, to ease pain.
To ease off or ease away, in seamen's language, is to slacken a rope gradually.
To ease a ship, is to put the helm hard alee, to prevent her pitching, when close hauled.
Easeful
E'ASEFUL, adjective Quiet; peaceful; fit for rest.
Easefully
E'ASEFULLY, adverb With ease or quiet.
Easel
E'ASEL, noun The frame on which painters place their canvas.
Easel-pieces, among painters, are the smaller pieces, either portraits or landscapes, which are painted on the easel as distinguished from those which are drawn on walls, ceilings, etc.
Easement
E'ASEMENT, noun Convenience; accommodation; that which gives ease, relief or assistance.
He has the advantage of a free lodging, and some other easements.
In law, any privilege or convenience which one man has of another, either by prescription or charter, without profit; as a way through his land, etc.
Easily
E'ASILY, adverb [from easy.] Without difficulty or great labor; without great exertion, or sacrifice of labor or expense, as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen.
1. Without pain, anxiety or disturbance; in tranquillity; as, to pass life well and easily
2. Readily; without the pain of reluctance.
Not soon provoked, she easily forgives.
3. Smoothly; quietly; gently; without tumult or discord.
4. Without violent shaking or jolting; as, a carriage moves easily
Easiness
E'ASINESS, noun Freedom from difficulty; ease.
Easiness and difficulty are relative terms.
1. Flexibility; readiness to comply; prompt compliance; a yielding or disposition to yield without opposition or reluctance.
Give to him, and he shall but laugh at your easiness
So we say, a man's easiness of temper is remarkable.
2. Freedom from stiffness, constraint, effort or formality; applied to manners or to the style of writing.
3. Rest; tranquillity; ease; freedom from pain.
4. Freedom from shaking or jolting, as of a moving vehicle.
5. Softness; as the easiness of a seat.
East
EAST, noun [Latin oriens, this word may belong to the root of hoise, hoist.]
1. The point in the heavens, where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or when it is in the equinoctial, or the corresponding point on the earth; one of the four cardinal points. The east and the west are the points where the equator intersects the horizon. But to persons under the equinoctial line, that line constitutes east and west.
2. The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe, or other country. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China, etc. We speak of the riches of the east the diamonds and pearls of the east the kings of the east
The gorgeous east with richest hand,
Pours on her kings barbaric, pearl and gold.
EAST, adjective Towards the rising sun; or towards the point where the sun rises, when in the equinoctial; as the east gate; the east border; the east side. The east wind is a wind that blows from the east
Easter
E'ASTER, noun
A festival of the christian church observed in commemoration of our Savior's resurrection. It answers to the pascha or passover of the Hebrews, and most nations still give it this name, pascha, pask, paque.
Easterling
E'ASTERLING, noun A native of some country eastward of another.
1. A species of waterfowl.
Easterly
E'ASTERLY, adjective Coming from the eastward; as an easterly wind.
1. Situated towards the east; as the easterly side of a lake or country.
2. Towards the east; as, to move in an easterly direction.
3. Looking towards the east; as an easterly exposure.
E'ASTERLY, adverb On the east; in the direction of east.
Eastern
E'ASTERN, adjective Oriental; being or dwelling in the east; as eastern kings; eastern countries; eastern nations.
1. Situated towards the east; on the east part; as the eastern side of a town or church; the eastern gate.
2. Going towards the east, or in the direction of east; as an eastern voyage.
Eastward
E'ASTWARD, adverb [east and ward.] Toward the east; in the direction of east from some point or place. New Haven lies eastward from New York. Turn your eyes eastward
Easy
E'ASY, adjective s as z. [See Ease.] Quiet; being at rest; free from pain, disturbance or annoyance. The patient has slept well and is easy
1. Free from anxiety, care, solicitude or peevishness; quiet; tranquil; as an easy mind.
2. Giving no pain or disturbance; as an easy posture; an easy carriage.
3. Not difficult; that gives or requires no great labor or exertion; that presents no great obstacles; as an easy task. It is often more easy to resolve, than to execute.
Knowledge is easy to him that understandeth. .
4. Not causing labor or difficulty. An easy ascent or slope, is a slope rising with a small angle.
5. Smooth; not uneven; not rough or very hilly; that may be traveled with ease; as an easy road.
6. Gentle; moderate; not pressing; as a ship under easy sail.
7. Yielding with little or no resistance; complying; credulous.
With such deceits he gained their easy hearts.
8. Ready; not unwilling; as easy to forgive.
9. Contented; satisfied. Allow hired men wages that will make them easy
10. Giving ease; freeing from labor, care or the fatigue of business; furnishing abundance without toil; affluent; as easy circumstances; an easy fortune.
11. Not constrained; not stiff or formal; as easy manners; an easy address; easy movements in dancing.
12. Smooth; flowing; not harsh; as an easy style.
13. Not jolting; as, the horse has an easy gait.
14. Not heavy or burdensome.
My yoke is easy and my burden light. .
Eat
EAT, verb transitive preterit tense ate; participle passive eat or eaten. [Latin edo, esse, esum.]
1. To bite or chew and swallow, as food.
Men eat flesh and vegetables.
They shall make thee to eat grass as oxen. .
2. To corrode; to wear away; to separate parts of a thing gradually, as an animal by gnawing. We say a cancer eats the flesh.
3. To consume; to waste.
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them. .
4. To enjoy.
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land. .
5. To consume; to oppress.
Who eat up my people as they eat bread. .
6. To feast.
Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. .
In scripture, to eat the flesh of Christ, is to believe on him and be nourished by faith.
To eat one's words, is to swallow back; to take back what has been uttered; to retract.
EAT, verb intransitive To take food; to feed; to take a meal, or to board.
He did eat continually at the king's table. 2 Sam.
Why eateth your master with publicans and sinners. .
1. To take food; to be maintained in food.
To eat or to eat in or into, is to make way by corrosion; to gnaw, to enter by gradually wearing or separating the parts of a substance. A cancer eats into the flesh.
Their word will eat as doth a canker. .
To eat out, to consume.
Their word will eat out the vitals of religion, corrupt and destroy it.
Eatable
E'ATABLE, adjective That may be eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent.
E'ATABLE, noun Any thing that may be eaten; that which is fit for food; that which is used as food.
Eaten
E'ATEN, participle passive ee'tn. Chewed and swallowed; consumed; corroded.
Eater
E'ATER, noun One who eats; that which eats or corrodes; a corrosive.
Eath
EATH, adjective easy, and adverb easily.
Eating
E'ATING, participle present tense Chewing and swallowing; consuming; corroding.
Eating-House
E'ATING-HOUSE, noun A house where provisions are sold ready dressed.
Eaves
EAVES, noun plural [In English the word has a plural ending.]
The edge or lower border of the roof of a building, which overhangs the walls, and casts off the water that falls on the roof.
Eaves-Drop
E'AVES-DROP, verb intransitive [eaves and drop.] To stand under the eaves or near the windows of a house, to listen and learn what is said within doors.
Eaves-Dropper
E'AVES-DROPPER, noun One who stands under the eaves or near the window or door of a house, to listen and hear what is said within doors, whether from curiosity, or for the purpose of tattling and making mischief.
Ebb
EBB, noun The reflux of the tide; the return of tidewater towards the sea; opposed to flood or flowing.
1. Decline; decay; a falling from a better to a worse state; as the ebb of life; the ebb of prosperity.
EBB, verb intransitive To flow back; to return as the water of a tide towards the ocean; opposed to flow. The tide ebbs and flows twice in twenty four hours.
1. To decay; to decline; to return or fall back from a better to a worse state.
Ebbing
EBB'ING, participle present tense Flowing back; declining; decaying.
EBB'ING, noun The reflux of the tide.
Ebbtide
EBB'TIDE, noun The reflux of tide-water; the retiring tide.
Ebionite
EB'IONITE, noun The ebionites were heretics who denied the divinity of Christ and rejected many parts of the scriptures.
Ebon
EB'ON, adjective [See Ebony.] Consisting of ebony; like ebony; black.
Ebonize
EB'ONIZE, verb transitive [See Ebony.] To make black or tawny; to tinge with the color of ebony; as, to ebonize the fairest complexion.
Ebony
EB'ONY, noun [Latin ebenus.] A species of hard, heavy and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss; said to be brought from Madagascar. The most usual color is black, red or green. The best is a jet black, free from veins and rind, very heavy, astringent and of an acrid pungent taste. On burning coals it yields an agreeable perfume, and when green it readily takes fire from its abundance of fat. It is wrought into toys, and used for mosaic and inlaid work.
Ebony-Tree
EB'ONY-TREE, noun The Ebenus, a small tree constituting a genus, growing in Crete and other isles of the Archipelago.
Ebracteate
EBRAC'TEATE, adjective [e priv. and bractea.] In botany, without a bractea or floral leaf.
Ebriety
EBRI'ETY, noun [Latin ebrietas, from ebrius, intoxicated.]
Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors.
Ebrillade
EBRIL'LADE, noun A check given to a horse, by a sudden jerk of one rein, when he refuses to turn.
Ebriosity
EBRIOS'ITY, noun [Latin ebriositas.] Habitual drunkenness.
Ebulliency
EBUL'LIENCY, noun [See Ebullition.] A boiling over.
Ebullient
EBUL'LIENT, adjective Boiling over, as a liquor.
Ebullition
EBULLI'TION, noun [Latin ebullitio, from ebullio, bullio; Eng. to boil, which see.]
1. The operation of boiling; the agitation of a liquor by heat, which throws it up in bubbles, or more properly, the agitation produced in a fluid by the escape of a portion of it, converted into an aeriform state by heat. ebullition is produced by the heat of fire directly applied, or by the heat or caloric evolved by any substance in mixture. Thus, in slaking lime, the caloric set at liberty by the a absorption of water, produces ebullition
2. Effervescence, which is occasioned by fermentation, or by any other process which causes the extrication of an aeriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali.
Ecaudate
ECAU'DATE, adjective [ e priv. and Latin cauda, a tail.] In botany, without a tail or spur.
Eccentric
ECCEN'TRIC,
ECCEN'TRICAL, adjective [Latin eccentricus; ex, from , and centrum, center.]
1. Deviating or departing from the center.
2. In geometry, not having the same center; a term applied to circles and spheres which have not the same center, and consequently are not parallel; in opposition to concentric, having a common center.
3. Not terminating in the same point, nor directed by the same principle.
4. Deviating from stated methods, usual practice or established forms or laws; irregular; anomalous, departing from the usual course; as eccentric conduct; eccentric virtue; an eccentric genius.
ECCEN'TRIC, noun A circle not having the same center as another.
1. That which is irregular or anomalous.
Eccentrical
ECCEN'TRICAL, a. [L. eccentricus; ex, from , and centrum, center.] 1. Deviating or departing from the center.2. In geometry, not having the same center; a term applied to circles and spheres which have not the same center, and consequently are not parallel; in opposition to concentric, having a common center.3. Not terminating in the same point, nor directed by the same principle.4. Deviating from stated methods, usual practice or established forms or laws; irregular; anomalous, departing from the usual course; as eccentric conduct; eccentric virtue; an eccentric genius.
Eccentricity
ECCENTRIC'ITY, noun Deviation from a center.
1. The state of having a center different from that of another circle.
2. In astronomy, the distance of the center of a planet's orbit from the center of the sun; that is, the distance between the center of an ellipsis and its focus.
3. Departure or deviation from that which is stated, regular or usual; as the eccentricity of a man's genius or conduct.
4. Excursion from the proper sphere.
Ecchymosis
ECCHYM'OSIS, noun In medicine, an appearance of livid spots on the skin, occasioned by extravasated blood.
Ecclesiastes
ECCLESIAS'TES, noun [Gr.] a canonical book of the old testament.
Ecclesiastic
ECCLESIAS'TIC, ECCLESIAS'TICAL, . [L; Gr.an assembly or meeting, whence a church; to call forth or convoke; to call.]
Pertaining or relating to the church; as ecclesiastical discipline or government; ecclesiastical affairs, history or policy; ecclesiastical courts.
Ecclesiastical State is the body of the clergy.
ECCLESIAS'TIC, noun A person in orders, or consecrated to the service of the church and the ministry of religion.
Ecclesiastical
ECCLESIAS'TICAL, . [L; Gr.an assembly or meeting, whence a church; to call forth or convoke; to call.]
Pertaining or relating to the church; as ecclesiastical discipline or government; ecclesiastical affairs, history or policy; ecclesiastical courts.
Ecclesiastical State is the body of the clergy.
Ecclesiasticus
ECCLESIAS'TICUS, noun A book of the aprocrypha.
Eccoprotic
ECCOPROT'IC, adjective [Gr. out or from, and stercus.] Having the quality of promoting alvine discharges; laxative; loosening; gently cathartic.
ECCOPROT'IC, noun A medicine which purges gently, or which tends to promote evacuations by stool; a mild cathartic.
Echelon
ECHELON', noun In military tactics, the position of an army in the form of steps, or with one division more advanced than another.
Echinate
ECH'INATE
ECH'INATED, adjective [Latin echinum, a hedgehog.] Set with prickles, prickly, like a hedgehog; having sharp points; bristled; as an echinated pericarp.
Echinated pyrites, in mineralogy.
Echinite
ECH'INITE, noun [See Echinus.] A fossil found in chalk pits, called centronia; a petrified shell set with prickles or points; a calcarious petrifaction of the echinus or sea-hedgehog.
Echinus
ECH'INUS, noun [Latin from Gr.] A hedgehog.
1. A shell-fish set with prickles or spines. The echinus in natural history, forms a genus of Mollusca. The body is roundish, covered with a bony crust, and often beset with movable prickles. There are several species and some of them eatable.
2. With botanists, a prickly head or top of a plant; an echinated pericarp.
3. In architecture, a member or ornament near the bottom of Ionic, Corinthian or Composite capitals, so named from its roughness, resembling, in some measure, the spiny coat of a hedgehog.
Echo
ECH'O, noun [Latin echo; Gr.sound, to sound.]
1. A sound reflected or reverberated from a solid body; sound returned; repercussion of sound; as an echo from a distant hill.
The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
2. In fabulous history, a nymph, the daughter of the Air and Tellus, who pined into a sound, for love of Narcissus.
3. In architecture, a vault or arch for redoubling sounds.
ECH'O, verb intransitive To resound; to reflect sound.
The hall echoed with acclamations.
1. To be sounded back; as echoing noise.
ECH'O, verb transitive To reverberate or send back sound; to return what has been uttered.
Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.
Echoed
ECH'OED, participle passive Reverberated, as sound.
Echoing
ECH'OING, participle present tense Sending back sound; as echoing hills.
Echometer
ECHOM'ETER, noun [Gr. sound, and measure.] Among musicians, a scale or rule, with several lines thereon, serving to measure the duration of sounds, and to find their intervals and ratios.
Echometry
ECHOM'ETRY, noun The art or act of measuring the duration of sounds.
The art of constructing vaults to produce echoes.
Eclaircise
ECLA'IRCISE, verb transitive To make clear; to explain; to clear up what is not understood or misunderstood.
Eclaircissement
ECLA'IRCISSEMENT, noun Explanation; the clearing up of any thing not before understood.
Eclampsy
ECLAMP'SY, noun [Gr. a shining, to shine.] A flashing of light, a symptom of epilepsy. Hence, epilepsy itself.
Eclat
ECLAT, noun ecla.
1. Primarily, a burst of applause; acclamation. Hence, applause; approbation; renown.
2. Splendor; show; pomp.
Eclectic
ECLEC'TIC, adjective [Gr. to choose.] Selecting; choosing; an epithet given to certain philosophers of antiquity, who did not attach themselves to any particular sect, but selected from the opinions and principles of each, what they thought solid and good. Hence we say, an eclectic philosopher; the eclectic sect.
ECLEC'TIC, noun A philosopher who selected from the various systems such opinions and principles as he judged to be sound and rational.
1. A christian who adhered to the doctrines of the Eclectics. Also, one of a sect of physicians.
Eclectically
ECLEC'TICALLY, adverb By way of choosing or selecting; in the manner of the eclectical philosophers.
Eclegm
ECLEGM', noun [Gr.] A medicine made by the incorporation of oils with syrups.
Eclipse
ECLIPSE, noun eclips'. [Latin eclipsis; Gr. defect, to fail, to leave.]
1. Literally, a defect or failure; hence in astronomy, an interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon or other luminous body. An eclipse of the sun is caused by the intervention of the moon, which totally or partially hides the sun's disk; an eclipse of the moon is occasioned by the shadow of the earth, which falls on it and obscures it in whole or in part, but does not entirely conceal it.
2. Darkness; obscuration. We say, his glory has suffered an eclipse
All the posterity of our first parents suffered a perpetual eclipse of spiritual life.
ECLIPSE, verb transitive eclips'. To hide a luminous body in whole or in part and intercept its rays; as, to eclipse the sun or a star.
1. To obscure; to darken, by intercepting the rays of light which render luminous; as, to eclipse the moon.
2. To cloud; to darken; to obscure; as, to eclipse the glory of a hero. Hence,
3. To disgrace.
4. To extinguish.
Born to eclipse thy life.
ECLIPSE, verb intransitive eclips'. To suffer an eclipse
Eclipsed
ECLIPS'ED, participle passive Concealed; darkened; obscured; disgraced.
Eclipsing
ECLIPS'ING, participle present tense Concealing; obscuring; darkening; clouding.
Ecliptic
ECLIP'TIC, noun [Gr. to fail or be defective; Latin eclipticus, linea ecliptica, the ecliptic line, or line in which eclipses are suffered.]
1. A great circle of the sphere supposed to be drawn through the middle of the zodiac, making an angle with the equinoctial of 23deg.30', which is the sun's greatest declination. The ecliptic is the apparent path of the sun, but as in reality it is the earth which moves, the ecliptic is the path or way among the fixed stars which the earth in its orbit appears to describe, to an eye placed in the sun.
2. In geography, a great circle on the terrestrial globe, answering to and falling within the plane of the celestial ecliptic
ECLIP'TIC, adjective Pertaining to or described by the ecliptic
1. Suffering an eclipse.
Eclogue
EC'LOGUE, noun ec'log. [Gr. choice, to select.] Literally, a select piece. Hence, in poetry, a pastoral composition, in which shepherds are introduced conversing with each other, as the eclogues of Virgil; or it is a little elegant composition in a simple natural style and manner. An eclogue differs from an idyllion, in being appropriated to pieces in which shepherds are introduced.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.