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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