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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

  • End

  • 'Still an end,' continually for ever

  • 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