Glossary.

Letter E

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
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