Glossary - 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

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