Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 3

Easily (adv.) Without pain, anxiety, or disturbance; as, to pass life well and easily.

Easily (adv.) Readily; without reluctance; willingly.

Easily (adv.) Smoothly; quietly; gently; gracefully; without /umult or discord.

Easily (adv.) Without shaking or jolting; commodiously; as, a carriage moves easily.

Easiness (n.) The state or condition of being easy; freedom from distress; rest.

Easiness (n.) Freedom from difficulty; ease; as the easiness of a task.

Easiness (n.) Freedom from emotion; compliance; disposition to yield without opposition; unconcernedness.

Easiness (n.) Freedom from effort, constraint, or formality; -- said of style, manner, etc.

Easiness (n.) Freedom from jolting, jerking, or straining.

East (n.) The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and which is toward the right hand of one who faces the north; the point directly opposite to the west.

East (n.) The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China, etc.; as, the riches of the East; the diamonds and pearls of the East; the kings of the East.

East (n.) Formerly, the part of the United States east of the Alleghany Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or New England, States; now, commonly, the whole region east of the Mississippi River, esp. that which is north of Maryland and the Ohio River; -- usually with the definite article; as, the commerce of the East is not independent of the agriculture of the West.

East (a.) Toward the rising sun; or toward 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.

East (adv.) Eastward.

East (v. i.) To move toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east; to orientate.

Easter (n.) An annual church festival commemorating Christ's resurrection, and occurring on Sunday, the second day after Good Friday. It corresponds to the pasha or passover of the Jews, and most nations still give it this name under the various forms of pascha, pasque, paque, or pask.

Easter (n.) The day on which the festival is observed; Easter day.

Easter (v. i.) To veer to the east; -- said of the wind.

Easterling (n.) A native of a country eastward of another; -- used, by the English, of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic.

Easterling (n.) A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England.

Easterling (n.) The smew.

Easterling (a.) Relating to the money of the Easterlings, or Baltic traders. See Sterling.

Easterly (a.) Coming from the east; as, it was easterly wind.

Easterly (a.) Situated, directed, or moving toward the east; as, the easterly side of a lake; an easterly course or voyage.

Easterly (adv.) Toward, or in the direction of, the east.

Eastern (a.) Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries.

Eastern (a.) Going toward the east, or in the direction of east; as, an eastern voyage.

Easternmost (a.) Most eastern.

East Indian () Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies.

East Indian (n.) A native of, or a dweller in, the East Indies.

Easting (n.) The distance measured toward the east between two meridians drawn through the extremities of a course; distance of departure eastward made by a vessel.

East-insular (a.) Relating to the Eastern Islands; East Indian.

Eastward (adv.) Alt. of Eastwards

Eastwards (adv.) Toward the east; in the direction of east from some point or place; as, New Haven lies eastward from New York.

Easy (v. t.) At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint

Easy (v. t.) Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy.

Easy (v. t.) Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind.

Easy (v. t.) Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style.

Easy (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.

Easy (v. t.) Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight; inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory.

Easy (v. t.) Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion.

Easy (v. t.) Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready.

Easy (v. t.) Moderate; sparing; frugal.

Easy (v. t.) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight.

Easy-chair (n.) An armchair for ease or repose.

Easy-going (a.) Moving easily; hence, mild-tempered; ease-loving; inactive.

Ate (imp.) of Eat

Eat () of Eat

Eaten (p. p.) of Eat

Eat () of Eat

Eating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eat

Eat (v. t.) To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.

Eat (v. t.) To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear.

Eat (v. i.) To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.

Eat (v. i.) To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.

Eat (v. i.) To make one's way slowly.

Eatable (a.) Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible.

Eatable (n.) Something fit to be eaten.

Eatage (n.) Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath.

Eater (n.) One who, or that which, eats.

Eath (a. & adv.) Easy or easily.

Eating (n.) The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.

Eating (n.) Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating.

Eau de Cologne () Same as Cologne.

Eau de vie () French name for brandy. Cf. Aqua vitae, under Aqua.

Eavedrop (n.) A drop from the eaves; eavesdrop.

Eaves (n. pl.) The edges or lower borders of the roof of a building, which overhang the walls, and cast off the water that falls on the roof.

Eaves (n. pl.) Brow; ridge.

Eaves (n. pl.) Eyelids or eyelashes.

Eavesdrop (v. i.) To stand under the eaves, near a window or at the door, of a house, to listen and learn what is said within doors; hence, to listen secretly to what is said in private.

Eavesdrop (n.) The water which falls in drops from the eaves of a house.

Eavesdropper (n.) One who stands under the eaves, or near the window or door of a house, to listen; hence, a secret listener.

Eavesdropping (n.) The habit of lurking about dwelling houses, and other places where persons meet fro private intercourse, secretly listening to what is said, and then tattling it abroad. The offense is indictable at common law.

Ebb (n.) The European bunting.

Ebb (n.) The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; -- opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on the ebb.

Ebb (n.) The state or time of passing away; a falling from a better to a worse state; low state or condition; decline; decay.

Ebbed (imp. & p. p.) of Ebb

Ebbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ebb

Ebb (v. i.) To flow back; to return, as the water of a tide toward the ocean; -- opposed to flow.

Ebb (v. i.) To return or fall back from a better to a worse state; to decline; to decay; to recede.

Ebb (v. t.) To cause to flow back.

Ebb (a.) Receding; going out; falling; shallow; low.

Ebb tide () The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide; -- opposed to flood tide.

Ebionite (n.) One of a sect of heretics, in the first centuries of the church, whose doctrine was a mixture of Judaism and Christianity. They denied the divinity of Christ, regarding him as an inspired messenger, and rejected much of the New Testament.

Ebionitism (n.) The system or doctrine of the Ebionites.

Eblanin (n.) See Pyroxanthin.

Eblis (n.) The prince of the evil spirits; Satan.

Ebon (a.) Consisting of ebony.

Ebon (a.) Like ebony, especially in color; black; dark.

Ebon (n.) Ebony.

Ebonist (n.) One who works in ebony.

Ebonite (n.) A hard, black variety of vulcanite. It may be cut and polished, and is used for many small articles, as combs and buttons, and for insulating material in electric apparatus.

Ebonized (imp. & p. p.) of Ebonize

Ebonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ebonize

Ebonize (v. t.) To make black, or stain black, in imitation of ebony; as, to ebonize wood.

Ebonies (pl. ) of Ebony

Ebony (n.) A hard, heavy, and durable wood, which admits of a fine polish or gloss. The usual color is black, but it also occurs red or green.

Ebony (a.) Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance.

Ebracteate (a.) Without bracts.

Ebracteolate (a.) Without bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a pedicel or flower stalk.

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