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- English Word Eat Definition To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.
- English Word Eat Definition 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.
- English Word Eat Definition To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.
- English Word Eat Definition To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.
- English Word Eat Definition To make one's way slowly.
- English Word Eatable Definition Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible.
- English Word Eatable Definition Something fit to be eaten.
- English Word Eatage Definition Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath.
- English Word Eaten Definition of Eat
- English Word Eater Definition One who, or that which, eats.
- English Word Eath Definition Easy or easily.
- English Word Eating Definition of Eat
- English Word Eating Definition The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.
- English Word Eating Definition Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating.
- English Word Eau de Cologne Definition Same as Cologne.
- English Word Eau de vie Definition French name for brandy. Cf. Aqua vitae, under Aqua.
- English Word Eavedrop Definition A drop from the eaves; eavesdrop.
- English Word Eaves Definition 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.
- English Word Eaves Definition Brow; ridge.
- English Word Eaves Definition Eyelids or eyelashes.
- English Word Eavesdrop Definition 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.
- English Word Eavesdrop Definition The water which falls in drops from the eaves of a house.
- English Word Eavesdropper Definition One who stands under the eaves, or near the window or door of a house, to listen; hence, a secret listener.
- English Word Eavesdropping Definition 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.
- English Word Ebb Definition To flow back; to return, as the water of a tide toward the ocean; -- opposed to flow.
- English Word Ebb Definition The European bunting.
- English Word Ebb Definition To cause to flow back.
- English Word Ebb Definition 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.
- English Word Ebb Definition Receding; going out; falling; shallow; low.
- English Word Ebb Definition To return or fall back from a better to a worse state; to decline; to decay; to recede.