- egad
- egal
- egre
- eigh
- eild
- ejoo
- eked
- elan
- ent-
- ergo
- epi-
- epic
- erke
- ersh
- erst
- etch
- each
- enow
- envy
- epha
- exit
- elix
- elmy
- elve
- emeu
- emir
- emit
- eyas
- eyed
- eyen
- eyer
- eyne
- eyen
- eyot
- eyra
- eyry
- emyd
- end-
- etui
- etym
- ease
- easy
- eath
- ebon
- euge
- eche
- eval
- ever
- evil
- edgy
- edit
- ewry
- e'en
- e'er
- eery
- ect-
(interj.) An exclamation expressing exultation or surprise, etc.
(a.) Equal; impartial.
(a.) Sharp; bitter; acid; sour.
(a. & n.) See Eager, and Eagre.
(interj.) An exclamation expressing delight.
(n.) Age.
(n.) Gomuti fiber. See Gomuti.
(imp. & p. p.) of Eke
(b.) Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.
() A prefix signifying within. See Ento-.
(conj. / adv.) Therefore; consequently; -- often used in a jocular
way.
() A prefix, meaning upon, beside, among, on the outside, above,
over. It becomes ep-before a vowel, as in epoch, and eph-before a Greek
aspirate, as in ephemeral.
(a.) Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a
kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or
fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are narrated
in an elevated style.
(n.) An epic or heroic poem. See Epic, a.
(a.) ASlothful.
(n.) See Arrish.
(adv.) First.
(adv.) Previously; before; formerly; heretofore.
(n.) A variant of Eddish.
(v. t.) To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or
the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of
some strong acid.
(v. t.) To subject to etching; to draw upon and bite with acid, as
a plate of metal.
(v. t.) To sketch; to delineate.
(v. i.) To practice etching; to make etchings.
(a. / a. pron.) Every one of the two or more individuals composing
a number of objects, considered separately from the rest. It is used
either with or without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of
you.
(a. / a. pron.) Every; -- sometimes used interchangeably with
every.
() A form of Enough.
(n.) Malice; ill will; spite.
(n.) Chagrin, mortification, discontent, or uneasiness at the
sight of another's excellence or good fortune, accompanied with some
degree of hatred and a desire to possess equal advantages; malicious
grudging; -- usually followed by of; as, they did this in envy of
Caesar.
(n.) Emulation; rivalry.
(n.) Public odium; ill repute.
(n.) An object of envious notice or feeling.
(v. t.) To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a
feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising
from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to
possess it.
(v. t.) To feel envy on account of; to have a feeling of grief or
repining, with a longing to possess (some excellence or good fortune of
another, or an equal good fortune, etc.); to look with grudging upon;
to begrudge.
(v. t.) To long after; to desire strongly; to covet.
(v. t.) To do harm to; to injure; to disparage.
(v. t.) To hate.
(v. t.) To emulate.
(v. i.) To be filled with envious feelings; to regard anything
with grudging and longing eyes; -- used especially with at.
(v. i.) To show malice or ill will; to rail.
(n.) A Hebrew dry measure, supposed to be equal to two pecks and
five quarts. ten ephahs make one homer.
() He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.
(n.) The departure of a player from the stage, when he has
performed his part.
(n.) Any departure; the act of quitting the stage of action or of
life; death; as, to make one's exit.
(n.) A way of departure; passage out of a place; egress; way out.
(v. t.) To extract.
(a.) Abounding with elms.
(n.) An old form of Elf.
(n.) Alt. of Emew
(n.) Alt. of Emeer
(v. t.) To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to
give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke;
boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light.
(v. t.) To issue forth, as an order or decree; to print and send
into circulation, as notes or bills of credit.
(n.) A nesting or unfledged bird; in falconry, a young hawk from
the nest, not able to prey for itself.
(a.) Unfledged, or newly fledged.
(imp. & p. p.) of Eye
(a.) Heaving (such or so many) eyes; -- used in composition; as
sharp-eyed; dull-eyed; sad-eyed; ox-eyed Juno; myriad-eyed.
(n. pl.) Eyes.
(n.) One who eyes another.
(n.) Alt. of Eyen
(n.) Plural of eye; -- now obsolete, or used only in poetry.
(n.) A little island in a river or lake. See Ait.
(n.) A wild cat (Felis eyra) ranging from southern Brazil to
Texas. It is reddish yellow and about the size of the domestic cat, but
with a more slender body and shorter legs.
(n.) The nest of a bird of prey or other large bird that builds in
a lofty place; aerie.
(n.) A fresh-water tortoise of the family Emydidae.
() A combining form signifying within; as, endocarp, endogen,
endocuneiform, endaspidean.
(n.) A case for one or several small articles; esp., a box in
which scissors, tweezers, and other articles of toilet or of daily use
are carried.
(n.) See Etymon.
(n.) Satisfaction; pleasure; hence, accommodation; entertainment.
(n.) Freedom from anything that pains or troubles; as: (a) Relief
from labor or effort; rest; quiet; relaxation; as, ease of body.
(n.) Freedom from care, solicitude, or anything that annoys or
disquiets; tranquillity; peace; comfort; security; as, ease of mind.
(n.) Freedom from constraint, formality, difficulty,
embarrassment, etc.; facility; liberty; naturalness; -- said of manner,
style, etc.; as, ease of style, of behavior, of address.
(n.) To free from anything that pains, disquiets, or oppresses; to
relieve from toil or care; to give rest, repose, or tranquility to; --
often with of; as, to ease of pain; ease the body or mind.
(n.) To render less painful or oppressive; to mitigate; to
alleviate.
(n.) To release from pressure or restraint; to move gently; to
lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in
machinery.
(n.) To entertain; to furnish with accommodations.
(v. t.) At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint
(v. t.) Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like;
quiet; as, the patient is easy.
(v. t.) Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like;
not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind.
(v. t.) Free from constraint, harshness, or formality;
unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style.
(v. t.) Not causing, or attended with, pain or disquiet, or much
exertion; affording ease or rest; as, an easy carriage; a ship having
an easy motion; easy movements, as in dancing.
(v. t.) Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight;
inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory.
(v. t.) Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor;
furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair
or cushion.
(v. t.) Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable;
yielding; complying; ready.
(v. t.) Moderate; sparing; frugal.
(v. t.) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is
easy; -- opposed to tight.
(a. & adv.) Easy or easily.
(a.) Consisting of ebony.
(a.) Like ebony, especially in color; black; dark.
(n.) Ebony.
(n.) Applause.
(a. / a. pron.) Each.
(a.) Relating to time or duration.
(adv.) At any time; at any period or point of time.
(adv.) At all times; through all time; always; forever.
(adv.) Without cessation; continually.
(a.) Having qualities tending to injury and mischief; having a
nature or properties which tend to badness; mischievous; not good;
worthless or deleterious; poor; as, an evil beast; and evil plant; an
evil crop.
(a.) Having or exhibiting bad moral qualities; morally corrupt;
wicked; wrong; vicious; as, evil conduct, thoughts, heart, words, and
the like.
(a.) Producing or threatening sorrow, distress, injury, or
calamity; unpropitious; calamitous; as, evil tidings; evil arrows; evil
days.
(n.) Anything which impairs the happiness of a being or deprives a
being of any good; anything which causes suffering of any kind to
sentient beings; injury; mischief; harm; -- opposed to good.
(n.) Moral badness, or the deviation of a moral being from the
principles of virtue imposed by conscience, or by the will of the
Supreme Being, or by the principles of a lawful human authority;
disposition to do wrong; moral offence; wickedness; depravity.
(n.) malady or disease; especially in the phrase king's evil, the
scrofula.
(adv.) In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily;
injuriously; unkindly.
(a.) Easily irritated; sharp; as, an edgy temper.
(a.) Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too
sharply defined.
(v. t.) To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare
for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for
publication; as, to edit a newspaper.
(n.) An office or place of household service where the ewers were
formerly kept.
(adv.) A contraction for even. See Even.
(adv.) A contraction for ever. See Ever.
(a.) Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild;
weird; as, eerie stories.
(a.) Affected with fear; affrighted.
() Alt. of Ecto-