The Anglish Moot
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Old English sb English
Eel n Any fresh water or marine fish of the family, anguiline.
Eel vb To catch eels. 2. to move with a sinuous motion like that of an eel.
Eel-bed n A pond or preserve for eels.
Eeler n One who catches eels.
Eel-fare n Passage of young eels up a river. 2. a brood of young eels.
Eel grass n Zostera marina: a grass-like weed.
Eelhood n The rank and condition of a full-grown eel.
Eel-like adj Resembling an eel by having a long, serpentine body.
Eel pot n A form of basket for trapping eels.
Eel-skin n Eel & Skin (skin, from Late OE: from ON)- the skin of an eel. 2. a rag-and-bone man.
Eel-spear n A pronged instrument for spearing eels.
Eel-ware n Ranunculus fluitans: whose common name is the water-crowfoot is a species of buttercup. It is a perennial water plant, that when in favourable conditions (such as fast flowing water,) it can grow up to 6 m (20 ft) height. 2. the water crowfoot.
Eely adj Eel-like; resembling the flesh of an eel. 2. moving like an eel; slippery. 3. wriggling, writhing.
Eem vb To spare time. 2. to find an opportunity.
Eerily adv In an eerie manner, strangely, ominously, sinsterly.
Eeriness n The cndition of being erir
Eerisome adj Causing fear, eerie.
Eery adj OE: 'earg' (cowardly, fearful, strange, weird, fear inspiring) 2. fearful, timid.
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