Word List - Vocabulator

(n.) The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane.

(n.) A simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell.

(n.) Anything resembling an egg in form.

(v. t.) To urge on; to instigate; to incite/

(v. t.) To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other.

(adv.) In addition; also; likewise.

(n.) An addition.

(a.) Old.

(n.) Age; esp., old age.

(n.) Old times; former days; antiquity.

(v. i.) To age; to grow old.

(v. t.) To make old or ancient.

(n.) The unit of work or energy in the C. G. S. system, being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimeter; the amount of energy expended in moving a body one centimeter against a force of one dyne. One foot pound is equal to 13,560,000 ergs.

(n.) A garden plot, usually about half an acre.

(v. i.) To wander; to roam; to stray.

(v. i.) To deviate from the true course; to miss the thing aimed at.

(v. i.) To miss intellectual truth; to fall into error; to mistake in judgment or opinion; to be mistaken.

(v. i.) To deviate morally from the right way; to go astray, in a figurative sense; to do wrong; to sin.

(v. i.) To offend, as by erring.

(n.) Ease; pleasure.

(n. & adv.) East.

(v. t. & i.) To bring forth, as young; to yean.

(n.) The organ of hearing; the external ear.

(n.) The sense of hearing; the perception of sounds; the power of discriminating between different tones; as, a nice ear for music; -- in the singular only.

(n.) That which resembles in shape or position the ear of an animal; any prominence or projection on an object, -- usually one for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; as, the ears of a tub, a skillet, or dish. The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow. See Illust. of Bell.

(n.) Same as Acroterium.

(n.) Same as Crossette.

(n.) Privilege of being kindly heard; favor; attention.

(v. t.) To take in with the ears; to hear.

(n.) The spike or head of any cereal (as, wheat, rye, barley, Indian corn, etc.), containing the kernels.

(v. i.) To put forth ears in growing; to form ears, as grain; as, this corn ears well.

(v. t.) To plow or till; to cultivate.

(n.) Alt. of Aeon

() See Epi-.

(n.) A large deer, of several species. The European elk (Alces machlis or Cervus alces) is closely allied to the American moose. The American elk, or wapiti (Cervus Canadensis), is closely related to the European stag. See Moose, and Wapiti.

(n.) Alt. of Elke

(n.) A dish of anything fried.

(n.) A state of excitement; as, to be in a fry.

() A prefix. See En-.

(n.) An uncle.

(n.) A brood; as, an eye of pheasants.

(n.) The organ of sight or vision. In man, and the vertebrates generally, it is properly the movable ball or globe in the orbit, but the term often includes the adjacent parts. In most invertebrates the years are immovable ocelli, or compound eyes made up of numerous ocelli. See Ocellus.

(n.) The faculty of seeing; power or range of vision; hence, judgment or taste in the use of the eye, and in judging of objects; as, to have the eye of sailor; an eye for the beautiful or picturesque.

(n.) The action of the organ of sight; sight, look; view; ocular knowledge; judgment; opinion.

(n.) The space commanded by the organ of sight; scope of vision; hence, face; front; the presence of an object which is directly opposed or confronted; immediate presence.

(n.) Observation; oversight; watch; inspection; notice; attention; regard.

(n.) That which resembles the organ of sight, in form, position, or appearance

(n.) The spots on a feather, as of peacock.

(n.) The scar to which the adductor muscle is attached in oysters and other bivalve shells; also, the adductor muscle itself, esp. when used as food, as in the scallop.

(n.) The bud or sprout of a plant or tuber; as the eye of a potato.

(n.) The center of a target; the bull's-eye.

(n.) A small loop to receive a hook; as hooks and eyes on a dress.

(n.) The hole through the head of a needle.

(n.) A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; as an eye at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; as an eye through a crank; an eye at the end of rope.

(n.) The hole through the upper millstone.

(n.) That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.

(n.) Tinge; shade of color.

(v. t.) To fix the eye on; to look on; to view; to observe; particularly, to observe or watch narrowly, or with fixed attention; to hold in view.

(v. i.) To appear; to look.

(n.) Air.

() A prefix signifying in or into, used in many English words, chiefly those borrowed from the French. Some English words are written indifferently with en-or in-. For ease of pronunciation it is commonly changed to em-before p, b, and m, as in employ, embody, emmew. It is sometimes used to give a causal force, as in enable, enfeeble, to cause to be, or to make, able, or feeble; and sometimes merely gives an intensive force, as in enchasten. See In-.

() A prefix from Gr. / in, meaning in; as, encephalon, entomology. See In-.

() of Eat

(v. t.) To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. i.) To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.

(v. i.) To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef.

(v. i.) To make one's way slowly.

(n.) The European bunting.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The state or time of passing away; a falling from a better to a worse state; low state or condition; decline; decay.

(v. i.) To flow back; to return, as the water of a tide toward the ocean; -- opposed to flow.

(v. i.) To return or fall back from a better to a worse state; to decline; to decay; to recede.

(v. t.) To cause to flow back.

(a.) Receding; going out; falling; shallow; low.

(n.) The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It is sounded as "English th in a similar word: //er, other, d//, doth."

() A prefix from the latin preposition, ex, akin to Gr. 'ex or 'ek signifying out of, out, proceeding from. Hence, in composition, it signifies out of, as, in exhale, exclude; off, from, or out. as in exscind; beyond, as, in excess, exceed, excel; and sometimes has a privative sense of without, as in exalbuminuos, exsanguinous. In some words, it intensifies the meaning; in others, it has little affect on the signification. It becomes ef- before f, as in effuse. The form e- occurs instead of ex- before b, d, g, l, m, n, r, and v, as in ebullient, emanate, enormous, etc. In words from the French it often appears as es-, sometimes as s- or e-; as, escape, scape, elite. Ex-, prefixed to names implying office, station, condition, denotes that the person formerly held the office, or is out of the office or condition now; as, ex-president, ex-governor, ex-mayor, ex-convict. The Greek form 'ex becomes ex in English, as in exarch; 'ek becomes ec, as in eccentric.

(n.) The old plural of Eye.

(n.) The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain; -- opposed to beginning, when used of anything having a first part.

(n.) Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence.

(n.) Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction.

(n.) The object aimed at in any effort considered as the close and effect of exertion; ppurpose; intention; aim; as, to labor for private or public ends.

(n.) That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends.

(n.) One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.

(v. t.) To bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to terminate; as, to end a speech.

(v. t.) To form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the word back.

(v. t.) To destroy; to put to death.

(v. i.) To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a close; to cease; to terminate; as, a voyage ends; life ends; winter ends.