Old English | sp | English |
Ea | n | A river, stream, running water. |
Each | phr | "A Bit Each Way" - a bet backing a horse etc either for a win or a place. |
Each | adv | Every one considered as an individual or individually. |
Each | phr | "Each and Every" - each without exception; used for emphasis. 2. each single individual (person or thing)in a group of people or things, without exception. 3. every last, single one. |
Each | phr | "Each/Every Man for Himself and the Devil Take the Hindmost" - everybody does what they can to further their own interests. |
Each | phr | "Each Other" to one another; one to the other. |
Each | phr | "Each To His Own" - each person individually according to one's wishes and desires. |
Each | phr | "Made for Each Other" - well matched romantically or maritally for each other. |
Eachwhere | adv | In each part, on every side, everywhere. |
Eade, Eadi | adj. | Rich , happy, prosperous, blessed. Also: |
Eadily | adv | In a blessed, fortunate manner |
Eadiness | n | Happiness, prosperity, blessedness. |
Eadish | adj | Somewhat happy |
Eadmede | n | Humility, genteelness, humbleness. |
Eadness | n | Happiness. |
Eafish | n. | A river fish, a fresh water fish. |
Ealdorman | n | Alderman: a member of a municipal body in town or city. |
Eam | n | An uncle. |
Ean | n. | Of ewes. to bring forth lambs. |
Eanling | n | A young lamb. |
Eaning-mood | n | Time of lambing |
Ear | n | Organ of hearing in men and animals. |
Ear | n | A spike or head of corn. |
Ear | n | The act of ploughing. (earland; eartime) |
Ear | vb | To plough, till the soil, turn up or over the ground with a plough. |
Ear | vb | Of corn: to produce ears, come into corn. |
Ear | phr | "Bend Somebody's Ear" - talk boringly to someone. |
Ear | phr | "Be Out On One's Ear" - have one's services abruptly terminated. |
Ear | phr | "Be Over Head and Ears" - up to the ears, full of animation, as a horse. |
Ear | phr | "Be Willing To Give One's Ear" - to be ready to make any sacrifice. |
Ear | phr | "Blow Down Thine Ear" - condescend to listen. |
Ear | phr | "Bow Down One's Ears" - to listen graciously. |
Ear | phr | "Chew One's Ear" - to force one's conversation on an unwilling listener. |
Ear | phr | "Come To One's Ears" - become or be made aware of. |
Ear | phr | "Drag By One's Ear" - to force a person to reveal the full facts. |
Ear | phr | "Eat, Drink Until It Comes Out of Your Ears" - eat and drink excessively. |
Ear | phr | "Fall on Deaf Ears" - be deliberately ignored; fall on stony ground. |
Ear | phr | "For One's Ears Only" - for one's knowledge or information. |
Ear | phr | "Get the rong Sow By the Ear" - to reach the wrong conclusion. |
Ear | phr | "Give Ear To" - to listen, take note of. |
Ear | phr | "Go, Come, Fall Together By the Ears" - said f animals fighting; hence also of people. |
Ear | phr | "Go In One Ear and Out the Other" - not listen or pay attention to waht others are saying. 2. give no heed or important to the sayings of others. |
Ear | phr | "Hang One's Ears" - to be discouraged, cowed. |
Ear | phr | "Have an Ear for" - an appreciation of music. |
Ear | phr | "Have By the Ears" - to keep, to obtain a secure hold on. |
Ear | phr | "Have Itching Ears" - to be eager to hear novelties. 2. be scandal mongering; hear new or current gossip. |
Ear | phr | "Have One's Ear to the Ground" - the practice of gathering. 2. a state or mindset of being attentive. 3. having the characteristic of carefully gathering information; well-informed. |
Ear | phr | "Have the Ear of" - have access to a higher source of information. 2. have one's full attention. |
Ear | phr | "Hear Both Ears" - to be impartial. ("Not To Be Hear Both Ears" - partisan, prejudiced. |
Ear | phr | "I'm All Ears" - to be eagerly attentive or listening. |
Ear | phr | "Keep One's Ears Open" - be on the look out for useful information. |
Ear | phr | "Lend an Ear to" - listen attentively. |
Ear | phr | "Make/Have One's Ear's Burn" - be disconcerted by what one hears about oneself. 2. be aware that, think that, other people are or have been discussing one, one's 9good or bad0 character, etc. |
Ear | phr | "Over Head and Ears" - wholly desperately; said of being in love, in debt, trouble etc. |
Ear | phr | "Pin Back One's Ears" - listen carefully. |
Ear | phr | "Play By Ear" - play a music instrument without using printed music sheet. |
Ear | phr | "Play It by Ear" - see how the situation develops and react. |
Ear | phr | "Pull (or Drag) by One's Ear(s)" - to keep in abject dependence. |
Ear | phr | "Reach Somebody's Ears" - come to somebody's notice, attention. |
Ear | phr | "Send Someone Away with a Flea in their Ear" - give a person frank but unwelcome facts. |
Ear | phr | "Shake One's Ears" - to make the best of a bad bargain. |
Ear | phr | "Throw Somebody Out on Their Ear" - forcibly eject someone. |
Ear | phr | "Turn a Deaf ear to" - deliberately ignored. |
Ear | phr | "Turn Something On its Ear" - reverse something. |
Ear | phr | "Up to One's Ears In" - overwhelmed with/ submerged win. 2. be deeply involved in something. |
Ear | phr | "Walls Have Ears" - there may be listener everywhere. |
Ear | phr | "Wet Behind the Ears" - naive, inexperienced. |
Ear | phr | "Willing to Give One's Ears" - be prepared to make a considerable sacrifice. |
Ear | phr | "Within Earshot" - within hearing distance (relatively near). |
Ear ache | n | A pain in the middle or inner ear. |
Earbone | n | Any bone in the ear. |
Ear-deafening | adj | Extremely loud, ear-splitting, ear-piercing. |
Earded | adj | Having ears; earedness. |
Ear-deep | adj | Reaching the ears only. |
Earder | n | A native, citizen, countryman. |
Ear drop | n | Medicine administered to the ear. |
Eared | adj | Ploughed |
Eared | adj | Furnished with or resembling ears. |
Eared | adj | Of corn: that comes into ear. |
Earer | n | A ploughman. |
Earer | n | One who listens intently. |
Ear-finger | n | The little finger, which, because of its convenient size, can be thrust into the ear when it itches, |
Earful | adj | A reprimand, castigation, or telling off. 2. intimate gossip. |
Earhole | n | The aperture or orifice of the ear. |
Earing | n | The action of ploughing, tilling the soil; a ploughing. |
Earing-land | n | Ear-land; land suitable for ploughing or tilling. |
Earing-time | n | Ear-time: the time of ploughing and tilling. |
Earish | adj | Auricular. |
Earl | n | OE: brave man, warrior, leader, chief. 2. after 1066 becoming the equivalent of count. |
Earldom | n | The rank and dignity of an earl. |
Earleaf | n | The cotyledon |
Earlength | adj | Fetal ear-length as a screening method for identification of fetuses with Down Syndrome. |
Earless | adj | Having no ears, destitute of hearing or of a musical ear. 2. of places: in which nothing could be heard. |
Earlessness | n | The state or condition of being without an earl. |
Earlet | n | Anything resembling a small ear. 2. an auricle of the heart. |
Earliness | n | State or quality of being early. |
Ear-like | adj | Characteristic or resembling an ear in some aspect. |
Earliness | n | The condition of being early. |
Earlishness | n | The distinctive quality of an earl, as noble like an earl. 2. the quality of being somewhat early. |
Earlock | n | A lock of curly hair worn by the ear, often by Jewish men for religious reasons. 2. the curl of the hair near the ear. |
Earlship | n | Manliness, bravery, nobility, lordship.(only in OE.) 2. the dignity or office of an earl. |
Early | adj | At a time in advance of the usual. 2. arriving at a time before expected. 3. near the start or beginning. 4. illness: having began to occur. |
Early | adv | At a time before expected; sooner than usual. 2. soon; in good time; seasonably. 3. prematurely |
Early | phr | "At the Earliest" - not before a certain time or date. |
Early | phr | "Bright and Early" - first thing in the morning. |
Early | phr | "Early Bird Gets the Worm" - whoever arrives first has the best chance of success. 2. opportunity is often only available to the first competitors. |
Early | phr | "Early Days Yet" - it rather too soon to come to the conclusions about, or past the judgements on, or a situation that still has to develop. |
Early | phr | "Early in the Day" - too soon to be sure. |
Early | phr | "Early On" - early in the process. 2. at an early stage. 3. soon after the start of an event, proceeding, situations. |
Early | phr | "Early to Bed, Early to Rise, Makes a Man Healthy, Wealthy and Wise" - said to emphasize that someone who gets enough sleep and starts work early in the day will a successful life. |
Early | phr | "Go to an Early Grave" - die young, untimely, or prematurely. |
Early | phr | "Have an Early Night" - an occasion on which a person goes to bed early. |
Early | phr | "The Early Days" - a time too soon to make a decision or come to a conclusion. 2. an initial period of an innovation. 3. initial stages of a project. |
Early-beam | n | Dawn, sunrise. |
Early bird | n | One who usually arrives first. |
Early-blooming | n | A plant that blooms in early spring. 2. characterized by exceptionally early development or maturity.
3. exhibiting advanced skills and aptitudes at an abnormally early age. |
Early childhood | n | A stage in human development, generally from a toddler and some time afterward. |
Early days | n | A time too soon to make a decision or come to a conclusion. 2. an initial period of an innovation. 3. initial stages of a project. |
Early doors | n | Early; near the start or beginning. |
Early doors | adv | Early; before a time expected. 2. sooner than usual. |
Early English | n | The English language between !250AD and 1500AD. |
Earlyhood | n | The state or condition of being idle. 2. the habit of being idle.3. earliness. |
Early innings | n | Early stages of any project or extended event. |
Earlyish | adj | Somewhat or rather early. |
Early-onset | n | Of the start of the first stage of a disease at an age younger than normal. |
Early riser | n | Someone who rises (or gets out of bed) early. |
Early warning | adj | An advance warning of a problem or of an imminent attack. |
Earman | n | A cultivator, tiller, farmer. |
Earmark | n | A mark of identification on the ear of an animal to indicate ownership. 2. a distinguishing mark. 3. in politics, the designation of specific projects in appropriateness of funding for general programs. |
Earmark | vb | To mark a person by cutting his ear when he was in the pillory. 2. to mark an identification on the ear of an animal to indicate ownership. 3. to mark with a distinguishing mark. 4. in politics, to designate specific projects according to appropriateness for funding. |
Ear-minded | adj | Having a marked preference forr auditory images in the various mental processes. 2. having one's mental imagery predominantly auditory : inclined to remember and think of things in terms of their sounds : audile — compare eye-minded. |
Ear-mindedness | n | The condition of being ear-minded. |
Ear moth | n | Amphipoea oculea, the ear moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. |
Earmould | n | The part of a hearing aid that direct sound to where it is meant to go in the ear. |
Earn | n. | An OE word found mostly in compounds, as Barn (barley earn), sleepern, hordern & saltern. 2. dwelling, place, hut. |
Earn | vb | To curdle milk. |
Earn | vb | Purchased by equivalent in labour, esp. in phrase 'well-earned'; 'hardly earned'. |
Earn | vb | To curdle (milk), esp. for making it into cheese. |
Earn | vb | (variant of 'yearn') - to desire strongly, to long for. 2. to be affected with poignant grief or compassion. 3. to tremble. 4. of hounds, to utter a prolonged cry |
Earn | phr | "Earn One's Keep" - to perform physical labor or to provide other services in return for payment, lodging or other benefits. 2. to support oneself financially. |
Earn | phr | "Earn One's Living" - to work for a wage or salary , in order to obtain the food, services, etc necessary to maintain oneself. |
Earned income | n | Income derived from wages etc. |
Earner | n | One who or that which earns. |
Earnest | n | Ardor in battle. 2. intense passion or desire. 3. seriousness, serious intention, as opposed to jest or play. |
Earnest | adj | Usually of a person: serious (as opposed to trifling); gravely, impassioned, conviction of action. 2. of feelings: conviction, sincerely zealous. 3. intense, ardent, intensity of feeling in words. |
Earnest | adv | In a serious, ardent, intense manner or way. |
Earnest | vb | To use in earnest, to render earnest. |
Earnest | phr | "Be Deadly Earnest" - be very serious. |
Earnestful | adj | Important. |
Earnestfully | adv | Importantly. |
Earnestly | adv | OE: in truth, in reality; in an earnest manner, being very sincere; putting forth genuine effort. |
Earnestness | n | State or quality of being earnest. |
Earnful | adj | (Yearnful); anxious, full of longing, desire, sorrowful. |
Earning | n | The action of giving labour or an equivalent; of acquiring money by labour. 2. income produced by invested capital. 3. the fact of deserving merit, gain, profit. |
Earning | n | A longing desire, poignant grief or compassion. 2. the prolonged crying of a hound or deer. 3. the curdling of milk for cheese. |
Earnings | n | wages, moneys earned, income, gains, returns. |
Ear-opening | n | Unexpectedly enlightening. |
Earnout | n | In business, a formula by which company management earns a share of the company share capital by achieving results above the determined level. |
Ear-reach | n | Ear-shot; within an audible distance. |
Ear-ring | n | A piece of jewelry worn on the ears. |
Ear-say | n | Hearsay |
Earsh | n | A plowed field; a field of stubble. |
Ear-shaped | adj | Resembling the shape of an ear. |
Ear shell | n | An ear-shaped shell. |
Ear-shot | n | The distance at which the voice can be heard. |
Ear-shrift | n | Auricular condemnation. |
Ear-sore | adj | Something painful or disagreeable to the ear. 2. an unpleasant or cacophonous noise or din. |
Earth | n | The water, air and earthen planet of the solar system that we inhabit. |
Earth | n | The action of ploughing; a ploughing. |
Earth | vb. | To plough, bury, commit corpse to the grave. 2. to plunge or hide in the earth; cover with earth. 3. to heap the earth over. 4. of a fox to hide in the earth. 5. to drive a fox to his earth, lair. |
Earth | phr | "Born On the Earth" - earthly or mortal race, as opposed to angelic or divine. 2. of things produced by the earth; as rising from the earth. |
Earth | phr | "Bring Down To the Earth" - to bring a person to their place of burial. 2. make somebody face up to reality. |
Earth | phr | "Come Back/Down to Earth" - face or return reality. |
Earth | phr | "Earth Up" - to cover the stalk of plants with soil in order to encourage root growth or to protect it from the cold. |
Earth | phr | "Ends of the Earth" - remotest part of the earth. |
Earth | phr | "Gone to Earth" -go into hiding. |
Earth | phr | "Have Not An Earthly" - have no chance whatsoever. |
Earth | phr | "How On Earth" - however. |
Earth | phr | "Like Heaven on Earth" - idyllic, perfect. |
Earth | phr | "Like Nothing on Earth" -incomparably, indescribably bad. |
Earth | phr | "No Earthly Good" - useless. |
Earth | phr | "On Earth" - existing anywhere (looking like nothing on earth). |
Earth | phr | "Run to Earth" - find somebody/something that is hidden or hard to find. |
Earth | phr | "Salt of the Earth" someone who is very god, worthy.. |
Earth | phr | "What On Earth" - exclamatory question of surprisee. |
Earth-apple | n | Cucumber. 2. potato. |
Earth-aware goods | n | Items, such as bags made from a bio-degradable film. |
Earth bed | n | The grave, tomb, dark inn. 2. a bed upon the ground. |
Earth-bedded | adj | Found deep in the earth. |
Earth-born | adj | Lowly, base, human, earthly, flawed, as opposed to divine and spiritual. 2. born by emerging for the earth- applied to the Titans and their off-spring. 3. born on the earth, of the earthly, mundane or mortal race, as opposed to angelic or divine. 4. as things produce by the earth or arising from the earth. |
Earth-bred | adj | 'The earth-bred thoughts of his gross soul' - lowly, base, secular, mundane, venial as opposed to the angelic or divine. |
Earth-chine | n | Cleft, split in the surface of the earth. |
Earth-creeping | adj | Lowly, base as 'earth-creeping mind that cannot be lifted up'. |
Earth Day | n | Global day of yearly observance of the need to protect the Earth; first held on April 22, 1970. |
Earth-delving | n | Burrowing, mining, excavation. |
Earthdin | n. | Earthquake |
Earth-dog | n | A terrier. |
Earth-drake | n | A mythical monster of Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. |
Earth-eater | n | One or that which eats earth. |
Earth-eating | n | Made out of earth or baked clay, sais disparagingly of the human body, or of the world; characteristic of the earth; merely material. |
Earthed | adj | Grounded; connected electrically to the ground. |
Earthen | adj | Made of earth or mud. 2. made of baked clay, especially pottery. |
Earthen | vb | To bring to earth or the ground. |
Earthenware | n | An opaque, semi-porous ceramic item made from clay. |
Earther | n | Of a person from planet Earth. 2. earthling. |
Earthfall | n | A landslide; avalanche. |
Earthfast | adj | Fixed to the ground; earth-rooted. |
Earth-flax | n | Asbestos, thrumstone, clothstone. |
Earth-floor | n | An earthen floor in a building, which is simply the ground itself, rather than some other coverings such as wood or vinyl. |
Earth-hearted | adj | Materialistic, earthly, as opposed to spiritual. |
Earth-hog | n | The aadvark; earth-wolf. |
Earth holders | n | Inhabitant of the Earth. |
Earthhole | n | A cavern in the ground or earth; a cave. |
Earthhood | n | Having an earthly quality: mundaneity, earthliness, earthiness.. |
Earthhouse | n | A dwelling that been built to blend in with the surrounding landscape being mostly underground with a grass-covered, contoured roof; or it can be completely underground with a topping of intensive growth. |
Earthiness | n | Quality of being earthly, earthy matter. |
Earthily | adv | In an earthly manner. |
Earthiness | n | The state of being earthy. 2. grossness, coarseness. |
Earthing | n | State of being buried; burial, interment. 2. anchorage. 4. action of taking refuge or burrow; driving an animal to earth. |
Earthing | phr | "Earthing Up" - the piling or heaping up of soil around the roots of a plants. |
Earthish | adj | Earthy. 2. somewhat mundane. |
Earthland | n | Arable land. |
Earthless | adj | Unencumbered by earth (by the body). |
Earth-light | n | The partial illumination of the dark portion of the moon's surface by light reflected from the earth; earth-shine. |
Earthlike | adj | Of the planet, resembling the Earth. |
Earthliness | n | The quality of being earthly. |
Earthling | n. | Farmer. 2. a human being. 3. an inhabitant of earth, esp. as regarded in science fiction by aliens. |
Earthly | n | (Slang)- a slightest chance of success, or idea about something. |
Earthly | adj | Relating to the earth or this world, as opposed to heaven; terrestrial. 2. used to emphasize a statement, as in 'no earthly hope'. 3. made of earth, earthy. |
Earthly | adv | In an earthly manner. |
Earth-mad | n | An earthworm. |
Earthman | n | A male inhabitant of the Earth. |
Earthly-minded | adj | Having the affections fixed on the earth; hardly-minded. 2. mundane, secular. |
Earthly-mindness | n | Wise in earthly matters. |
Earth mother | n | The Great Goddess of the Earth and fertility. 2. Eve; Dawn-woman, First-mother |
Earthnut | n | Any of the various roots, tuber or pods that grow underground. 2. peanut, goober. |
Earth Overshoot Day | n | The annual Earth Overshoot Day is set to occur on July 29 this year, three days earlier than last year. That's the day in 2019 when we will have used up all the resources that Earth's natural systems can provide and replace in a year, according to the Global Footprint Network. |
Earthpig | n | The aadvark. |
Earthquake | n | The shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity around faulty geology or motion; earth-din. 2. such a quake specifically occurring on the the Earth. |
Earth-quaking | n | The occurrence of earth-quakes. |
Earthric | n | Earthrike, earth realm, earth as a region; earthdom. |
Earth-rind | n | Earth crust. |
Earthrise | n | The time of day when the earth starts to appear or rise or the horizon of another planet. 2. irregular event of the earth appearing above the horizon of the moon. Apollo 8's crew were the first to witness an Earthrise, on December 24, 1968. A photograph of the Earthrise was taken by Lunar Module Pilot William Anders. |
Earthshaking | n | Earth tremor; earthshock. |
Earth-shakingly | adv | In an earth-shaking manner. |
Earth-shine | adj | The light of the Earth. 2. the glow caused by sunlight reflected on the earth, especially on the darker portion of a crescent moon. |
Earthship | n | A solar-heated house made of natural and recycled materials. |
Earthside | adj | On the planet Earth. |
Earthside | adv | When on the planet Earth. |
Earth-spider | n | Taruntula. |
Earth-star | n | Earth, considered as a star. |
Earth-throe | n | Earth tremor |
Earthtide | n | Earth tide (also known as solid Earth tide, crustal tide, body tide, bodily tide or land tide) is the displacement of the solid earth's surface caused by the gravity of the Moon and Sun. Its main component has meter-level amplitude at periods of about 12 hours and longer. |
Earth-tiller | n | A cultivator of the soil, farmer, a sholto. |
Earth-tilling | n | Cultivation, farming, agriculture. |
Earth-tilth | n | Cultivation of the soil, farming. |
Earthward(s) | adv | Towards the earth. |
Earthware | n | Earthdwellers, earthlings collectively. |
Earth-wave | n | A seismic wave in the solid crust of the earth. |
Earth-wax | n | Ozocerite. |
Earth-wide | adj | World-wide, universal, global. |
Earth-wolf | n | Aardvark. |
Earthwoman | n | A female inhabitant of the earth. |
Earth-worker | n | Husbandman. |
Earth-works | n | Any structure made from earth, esp. an embankment or rampart used as a fortification. |
Earthworm | n | A worm that lives in the ground.2. a worm of the lumbricidae family 3. a contemptible person. 4. death. |
Earthy | adj | Resembling dirt or soil. 2. down-to-earth, practical, realistic, worldly. 3. like or resembling the earth or of the earth. 4. covered with earth or mud. |
Earware | n | A personal acoustical equipment, such as headphones. 2. earrings, earwear. |
Ear wax | n | A waxy substance secreted by the ear; cerumen. |
Ear-wear | n | Items, ornaments worn on the ears. |
Ear-whisperer | n | A person who whispers insidiously in people's ears. |
Earwig | n | OE. 'wig' - insect, bug, beetle, as the earwig.. |
Earwig | vb | To pester with private importunities or admonition. 2. to influence, bias (a person by secret communication). 3. to insinuate oneself into the confidence of another. |
Earwig-brain | n | One having a maggot or 'craze' in his brain. |
Ear-wire | n | An earwire is a bow of wire, looped to fasten an earring to a pierced ear. It is generally made of precious metal or hypoallergenic surgical steel. |
Earwise | adj | After the manner of an ear of corn. 2. by the ear of corn; auricularly. |
Earwitness | n | A person who testifies, or is able to testify, to something on the evidence of his own hearing.. |
Earwort | n. | Dysophilia auricularis, a plant supposed to cure deafness |
Eary | adj | Of the nature or appearance of an ear. |
Easle | n. | Hot ashes, cinders |
Eassin | n | A cow on heat. |
Eassin | vb. | To desire strongly |
East | n | One of the four principal parts of the compass. 2. the direction of the rising sun a t equinox. |
East | vb | To move towards or veer to the east. 2. to orientate; to find out one's true position. |
East | adj | Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastwards. 2. of or pertaining to the east; eastern. 3. from the east, oriental. |
East | adv | Towards the east; eastwards. |
East | phr | "East is East and West is West and Never the Twain shall Meet" - there are, there may be thought to be, great differences in people or things, (races, cultures, beliefs etc) and which are fundamental and not likely to make relationships between smooth and easy. |
East | phr | "East, (or) West, Home's Best" - one's home, town, city, city is where one is likely to be happiest. |
East | phr | "To the East" - in an easterly direction. |
East-by-northeast | adv | the compass towards the north-east and east. |
East-End | n | The part or end of London east of the City as far the River Lea. |
East-Ender | n | One who lives in the East End of London. |
Easter | n | A Christian feast commemorating the resurrection of Jesus, celebrated between 22 March and 25 April. 2. easter-tide. 3. the Jewish Passover. 4. a pagan festival held in honor of the goddess, Eostre. |
Easter day | n | Easter Sunday; Easter-tide. |
Easter egg | n | An artificial, usually chocolate egg given at Easter time, usually to children. |
Easterliness | n | The state of being easterly. |
Easterly | n | A persistent wind blowing from the east. |
Easterly | adj | Facing the east. 2. directed from the east. 3. located towards the east. 4. coming from the east. |
Easterly | n | In any eastward direction or position. 2. towards the east. 3. from the east. |
Eastern | adj | Of or in the east. 2. inhabiting the east. 2. lying or directed towards the east. |
Easterner | n | A native or inhabitant of the east. |
Easterness | n | Relating to or pertaining to things Easter in state or nature. |
Easternmost | adv | Most easterly in direction. |
East side | adv | The east side of a district or the city. |
Easter Sunday | n | A Christian religious holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. |
Eastertide | n | Easter time; the period including Easter. |
Easter week | n | The week beginning on easter sunday. |
Easting | n | The distance east of standard median. 2. distance traveled eastwards. |
East-north-east | n | The direction or compass point midway between east and north-east. |
East-south-east | n | The direction or compass point midway between east and south-east. |
Eastward | n | The direction or area lying to the east. |
Eastward | adj | Situated or directed towards the east. |
Eastward | adv | Towards the east. |
Eastwardly | adj | Towards the east. 2. blowing from the east. |
Eastwardly | adv | In or from an easterly direction. |
East-West | adj | Of or relating to the countries of the East and the West (east-West friendship). |
Easy | adj | From Middle English eesy, esy, partly from Middle English ese (“ease”) + -y, equivalent to ease + -y, and partly from Old French aisié (“eased, at ease, at leisure”), See ease. Merged with Middle English ethe, eathe (“not difficult, easy”), from Old English ēaþe, īeþe (“easy, smooth, not difficult” 2. comfortable; at ease. 3. requiring little skill or effort. 4. causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labor. 5. free from constraint, smooth, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth. 6. (pejorative, of a person) readily to sex; consenting. 7. not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant. 8. (finance, dated) Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight constraints. |
Easy | adv | In a relaxed or casual manner. 2. in a manner without strictness or harshness. 3. not difficult, not hard. |
Easy | n | Something that is easy. |
Easy | phr | "Breathe Easy" - following some crisis: relax, calm down. |
Easy | phr | "Easier Said Than Done" - suggesting some course of action is very much easier than actually carry it out. |
Easy | phr | "Easy Come, Easy Go" - what has been acquired too quickly or easily; or without effort or trouble. |
Easy | phr | "Easy In One's Mind" - more relaxed and reasonably content about something, somebody or a situation. |
Easy | phr | "Easy on the Eye" - quite pretty, good-looking; pleasant to look at. 2. causing little strain to one's eyes. |
Easy | phr | "Go Easy on Somebody" - be lenient with somebody. |
Easy | phr | "Go Easy With Something" - do not be overgenerous with. |
Easy | phr | "I'm Easy" - I don't mind, I'm agreeable. |
Easy | phr | "On Easy Street" financially secure, well off; affluent. |
Easy | phr | "Take It Easy" - relax, slow down. |
Easy-going | adj | Relaxed, under-demanding. |
Easy-meat | n | Somebody who is easy to dupe. |
Eat | n | An item of food. |
Eat | vb | That which is eaten; food, eats, a meal; the action of eating. |
Eat | phr | "Dog Eat Dog" - ruthless competition. |
Eat | phr | "Eat Away" - lit. and fig. to remove destroy by gradual erosion or corrosion; eat into. |
Eat | phr | "Eat Breathe and Sleep" - to devote one's time obsessively to eating. |
Eat | phr | "Eat Crow" - to recognize that one has been shown to be mistaken or outdone, esp. by admitting that one has made a humiliating mistake. |
Eat | phr | "Eat Dirt" -tolerate, humiliation, insult. |
Eat | phr | "Eat Drink, and Be Merry for Tomorrow You Die" - enjoy yourself while you can as life is capricious. |
Eat | phr | "Eat, Drink Until It Comes Out of Your Ears" - eat and drink excessively. |
Eat | phr | "Eat Earth" - a colonial expansion to possess the land of others; earth-hunger. 2. the desire to possess land, greed of territory. |
Eat | phr | "Eat In" - to take into one's mouth; ingest. |
Eat | phr | "Eat Into" - consume, use unwillingly, bite away into acid. |
Eat | phr | "Eat Iron" - to be stabbed; to eat sword. |
Eat | phr | "Eat Like a Bird" - eat in small amount |
Eat | phr | "Eat Like a Horse" - eat large amounts of, or lots of food. |
Eat | phr | "Eat Like a Pig" - eat grredily and nosily. |
Eat | phr | "Eat My Dust" - to be outrun (eat the dust of your conqueror. 2. to be on the receiving end. |
Eat | phr | "Eat Oneself Sick" - eat too much that one feel bilious. |
Eat | phr | "Eat One's Fill" - eat till satiated. |
Eat | phr | "Eat One's Hat If" - express disbelief in a proposition. |
Eat | phr | "Eat One's Head Off" - to eat greedily or excessively. |
Eat | phr | "Eat One's Heart Out" - grieve bitterly, grieve, pine. 2. feel sad or jealous. |
Eat | phr | "Eat One's Words" - to retract in a humiliating manner. 2. deeply regret what one said. |
Eat | phr | "Eat One's Young" - betray a constituent or charge out of self-serving interests or desperation. |
Eat | phr | "Eat Out" - to exhaust a paddock by overgrazing. 2. to over consume. |
Eat | phr | "Eat Out Of Someone Hands" - an allusion to the manner in which a tame animal can be fed. 2. idiomatic, to behave in a docile submissive manner; often used to describe a man's submissiveness do a woman's romantic attraction. 3. eating out of someone's hand. |
Eat | phr | "Eat Salt with" - be guest of; accepted the hospitality of an other. |
Eat | phr | "Eat Somebody Alive for Breakfast" - be able to dominate, make maximum use of somebody and then discard them. |
Eat | phr | "Eat Someone Out Of House and Home" - to live at the expense of others, so as to cause hardship. 2. eat more than a host can afford or provide. |
Eat | phr | "Eat the Good of the Land" - to eat will; have a good appetite. |
Eat | phr | "Eat Up" - consume completely; eat without leaving any, devour speedily. 2. devastate, consume the food supply of a country. 3. to consume a person's resources for one's own benefit. 4. eat the food served; eat heartily. 5. of a nation: to absorb, annex rapaciously the territories of one's neigbours. 6. to absorb wastefully time, money. 7. to have a destructive effect on. |
Eat | phr | "What's eating You" - you'll hardly said a word to me since arriving. 2. what are you bothered about. |
Eaten | adj | Consumed; eaten as food; gnawed. 2. corroded, ulcerated. |
Eater | n | One who eats, consumer, devourer; in combination: breadeater, flesh-eater. |
Eath(e) | adj | Of an action easy, not difficult, requiring little effort. 2. of a passage that may be crossed with ease, not rough. 3. of an object, means, or method of an action: make light resistance, present few problems or difficulties. 3. of a person: easy to be entreated, ready, gentle, susceptible, comfortable, at ease, free of pain. 4. free from worry, concern, anxiety. 6. not hurried or forced. |
Eathe | vb | To lighten, alleviate, assuage; make easy. |
Eath | adv | Easily, without difficulty. |
Eathbele | adj | Easy to amend; |
Eathful | adj | Comfortable, at ease. |
Eatheget | adj | Easy to obtain; eathgot. |
Eathkent | vb | Easily known. |
Eathluke | adj | Easy to pull. |
Eathly | adv | Easy, not difficult, inconsiderable, slight, trifling, of short duration. 2. of person: low in station, mean in character. 3. of a thing: of small value. |
Eathness | n. | Easiness. |
Eathy | adj | Easy. |
Eating | adj | Greedy, voracious; that consumes or eats away. 2. gnawing, corroding, fretting of chemicals; sores. |
Eating-apple | n | An apple that can be eaten raw; rather softened by cooking or stewing. |
Eating-house | n | Restaurant, bistro, cafe. |
Eating-irons | n | Cutlery, esp. knives and folks |
Eating-room | n | Dining room. |
Eats | n | Colloq. food. |
Eatworthy | adj | Worthy of, or worth being eaten. 2. suitable for consumption; edible. |
Eaubreaker | n | Adulterer |
Eaubruche | n | Adultery. |
Eave | n | The underside of a roof that extends beyond the external wall of a building. |
Eaves | n | Of a wood: edge, margin, border. 2. transfig, - anything that projects or hangs slightly (over), as the eaves of a house, a brows of a hill, edge of a precipice, the brim of a hat; and poetically the eyelids. |
Eavesdrop | n | (Once simply meant 'eaves') - the dripping of water from the eaves of a house. 2. the space of ground which is liable to catch the rainwater thrown off the eaves of a building. |
Eavesdrop | vb | To hear a conversatio one is not intended to hear. |
Eavesdropper | n | One who eaves-drops. |
Eavesdropping | n | The act of eaves-dropping. |
Eaves-droppingly | adv | So as to eaves-drop. |
Eavesing | n. | Trim, edge, border. 2. the action of trimming the edges of a thing. 3. clipping, polling, shearing. 3. a clipping of hair. 4. the eaves of a house or stack; formerly used for a roof; and, hence transfig. for a dwelling. |
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