Glossary.
Letter E
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- EAGER
- sour
- Harsh
- Biting
- EANLING
- a yeanling, a lamb
- EAR
- to plough
- ECHE
- to eke out
- EFT
- ready, convenient
- EISEL
- vinegar
- ELD
- old age
- EMBOSSED
- swollen into protuberances
- Covered with foam
- EMBOWELLED
- disembowelled, emptied
- EMBRASURE
- embrace
- EMINENCE
- exalted station
- EMPERY
- empire
- EMULATION
- jealousy, mutiny
- EMULOUS
- jealous
- ENCAVE
- to place oneself in a cave
- ENFEOFF
- to place in possession in fee simple
- ENGINE
- a machine of war
- ENGLUT
- to swallow speedily
- ENGROSS
- to make gross or fat
- ENGROSSMENT
- immoderate acquisition
- ENKINDLE
- to make keen
- ENMEW
- to shut up, as a hawk is shut up in a mew
- ENSCONCE
- to cover as with a fort
- ENSEAMED
- fat, rank
- ENSHIELD
- hidden
- ENTERTAIN
- encounter
- Experience
- ENTERTAINMENT
- treatment
- A disposition to entertain a proposal
- Service
- ENTREATMENTS
- interviews
- EPHESIAN
- a toper, a cant term
- EQUIPAGE
- attendance
- EREWHILE
- a short time since
- ESCOT
- to pay a man's reckoning, to maintain
- ESPERANCE
- hope, used as a war-cry
- ESPIAL
- a scout or spy
- ESTIMATION
- conjecture
- ESTRIDGE
- ostridge
- ETERNE
- eternal
- EVEN
- coequal
- EVEN
- to equal
- EXAMINE
- to question
- EXCREMENT
- that which grows outwardly from the body and has no sensation like the hair or nails Any outward show
- EXECUTOR
- an executioner
- EXEMPT
- excluded
- EXERCISE
- a religious service
- EXHALE
- to hale or draw out
- to draw the sword
- EXHIBITION
- allowance, pension
- EXIGENT
- death, ending
- EXION
- ridiculously used for 'action.'
- EXPECT
- expectation
- EXPEDIENCE
- expedition, undertaking
- Haste
- EXPEDIENT
- expeditious, swift
- EXPIATE
- completed
- EXPOSTULATE
- to expound, discuss
- EXPOSTURE
- exposure
- EXPRESS
- to reveal
- EXPULSE
- to expel
- EXSUFFICATE
- that which has been hissed off, contemptible
- EXTEND
- to seize
- EXTENT
- a seizure
- EXTERN
- outward
- EXTIRP
- to extirpate
- EXTRACTING
- distracting
- EXTRAUGHT
- part. extracted, descended
- EXTRAVAGANT
- foreign, wandering
- EXTREMES
- extravagance of conduct
- Extremities
- EYAS
- a nestling hawk
- EYAS-MUSKET
- a nestling of the musket or merlin, the smallest species of British hawk
- EYE
- a glance, oeillad
- EYE
- a shade of colour, as in shot silk
- EYNE
- eyes