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  • English Word Ease Definition To render less painful or oppressive; to mitigate; to alleviate.
  • English Word Ease Definition To release from pressure or restraint; to move gently; to lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in machinery.
  • English Word Ease Definition To entertain; to furnish with accommodations.
  • English Word Eased Definition of Ease
  • English Word Easeful Definition Full of ease; suitable for affording ease or rest; quiet; comfortable; restful.
  • English Word Easel Definition A frame (commonly) of wood serving to hold a canvas upright, or nearly upright, for the painter's convenience or for exhibition.
  • English Word Easeless Definition Without ease.
  • English Word Easement Definition That which gives ease, relief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation.
  • English Word Easement Definition A liberty, privilege, or advantage, which one proprietor has in the estate of another proprietor, distinct from the ownership of the soil, as a way, water course, etc. It is a species of what the civil law calls servitude.
  • English Word Easement Definition A curved member instead of an abrupt change of direction, as in a baseboard, hand rail, etc.
  • English Word Easily Definition Without shaking or jolting; commodiously; as, a carriage moves easily.
  • English Word Easily Definition Smoothly; quietly; gently; gracefully; without /umult or discord.
  • English Word Easily Definition Readily; without reluctance; willingly.
  • English Word Easily Definition Without pain, anxiety, or disturbance; as, to pass life well and easily.
  • English Word Easily Definition With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen.
  • English Word Easiness Definition Freedom from jolting, jerking, or straining.
  • English Word Easiness Definition Freedom from effort, constraint, or formality; -- said of style, manner, etc.
  • English Word Easiness Definition Freedom from emotion; compliance; disposition to yield without opposition; unconcernedness.
  • English Word Easiness Definition Freedom from difficulty; ease; as the easiness of a task.
  • English Word Easiness Definition The state or condition of being easy; freedom from distress; rest.
  • English Word Easing Definition of Ease
  • English Word East Definition Eastward.
  • English Word East Definition 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.
  • English Word East Definition 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.
  • English Word East Definition 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.
  • English Word East Definition 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.
  • English Word East Definition To move toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east; to orientate.
  • English Word East Indian Definition Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies.
  • English Word East Indian Definition A native of, or a dweller in, the East Indies.
  • English Word East-insular Definition Relating to the Eastern Islands; East Indian.