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In an earnest manner.
The state or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety.
Full of anxiety or yearning.
That which is earned; wages gained by work or services; money earned; -- used commonly in the plural.
An instrument for removing wax from the ear.
a device for converting electric signals into sounds, designed to be held over or inserted into the ear; as, The common telephone handset has a speaker and an earpiece.
Earshot.
An ornament consisting of a ring passed through the lobe of the ear, with or without a pendant.
See Arrish.
Reach of the ear; distance at which words may be heard.
A nickname for auricular confession; shrift.
An annoyance to the ear.
See Erst.
A plowing.
colors like those of soil or earth; brownish-reds and browns.
colors like those of soil or earth; brownish-reds and browns.
Born of the earth; terrigenous; springing originally from the earth; human; having the characteristics of earthly life; as, earth-born beings.
a small building with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate.
having the color of soil or earth; reddish or reddish-brown.
a god of fertility and vegetation.
a goddess of fertility and vegetation.
sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; as, earth-shaking proposals; an earth-shaking event.
A fungus of the genus Geoglossum.
A bag filled with earth, used commonly to raise or repair a parapet.
any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean trufflelike fruiting bodies.
A bank or mound of earth.
The part of a plow, or other implement, that turns over the earth; the moldboard.
Low; grovelling; vulgar.
An earthquake.
A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon.
Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.
Hard-hearted; sordid; gross.
Vessels and other utensils, ornaments, or the like, made of baked clay. See Crockery, Pottery, Stoneware, and Porcelain.
A pronged fork for turning up the earth.
The quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth; hence, grossness.
The sunlight reflected from the earth to the moon, by which we see faintly, when the moon is near the sun (either before or after new moon), that part of the moon's disk unillumined by direct sunlight, or /the old moon in the arms of the new./
The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness.
An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal.
In the manner of the earth or its people; worldly.
Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded.
The earthworm.
A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum. The peanut. See Peanut.
A species of pea (Amphicarp/a monoica). It is a climbing leguminous plant, with hairy underground pods.
Like, or characteristic of, an earthquake; loud; startling.
An earthquake.
An earthquake.
A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.
Toward the earth; -- opposed to heavenward or skyward.
Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth.
Any worm of the genus Lumbricus and allied genera, found in damp soil. One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe and America is L. terrestris; many others are known; -- called also angleworm and dewworm.
Consisting of, or resembling, earth; terrene; earthlike; as, earthy matter.
See Cerumen.
To influence, or attempt to influence, by whispered insinuations or private talk.
A witness by means of his ears; one who is within hearing and does hear; a hearer.
To free from anything that pains, disquiets, or oppresses; to relieve from toil or care; to give rest, repose, or tranquillity to; -- often with of; as, to ease of pain; to ease the body or mind.
made less severe or intense; mitigated.
Full of ease; suitable for affording ease or rest; quiet; comfortable; restful.
A frame (commonly) of wood serving to hold a canvas upright, or nearly upright, for the painter's convenience or for exhibition.
Without ease.
That which gives ease, relief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation.
With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen.
The state or condition of being easy; freedom from distress; rest.
a change for the better.
To move toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east; to orientate.
Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. A native of, or a dweller in, the East Indies.
of a region of the U. S. generally including Kentucky and West Virginia.
Relating to the Eastern Islands; East Indian.
moving toward the east; as, eastbound trains.
To veer to the east; -- said of the wind.
Relating to the money of the Easterlings, or Baltic traders. See Sterling.
Toward, or in the direction of, the east.
Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries.
an inhabitant of an eastern area; especially of the eastern U. S.
Most eastern.
The distance measured toward the east between two meridians drawn through the extremities of a course; distance of departure eastward made by a vessel.
Toward the east; in the direction of east from some point or place; as, New Haven lies eastward from New York.
At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy. Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind. Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style.
An armchair for ease or repose.
Moving easily; hence, mild-tempered; relaxed and casual; ease-loving; inactive. Contrasted with tense.
being without worry or concern.
To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.
Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible. Something fit to be eaten.
Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath.
ingested through the mouth. Contrasted with uneaten.
One who, or that which, eats.
Easy or easily.
The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.
A drop from the eaves; eavesdrop.
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.
The water which falls in drops from the eaves of a house.
One who stands under the eaves, or near the window or door of a house, to listen; hence, a secret listener.
The habit of lurking about dwelling houses, and other places where persons meet for private intercourse, secretly listening to what is said, and then tattling it abroad. The offense is indictable at common law.
Receding; going out; falling; shallow; low.
a 8-bit code for representing alphanumerical information in a digital information storage medium. It was used expecially on IBM mainframes, and differed substantially from the ASCII code.
One of a sect of heretics, in the first centuries of the church, whose doctrine was a mixture of Judaism and Christianity. They denied the divinity of Christ, regarding him as an inspired messenger, and rejected much of the New Testament.
The system or doctrine of the Ebionites.
See Pyroxanthin.
The prince of the evil spirits; Satan.
an exceptionally virulent hemorrhaic virus with a high mortality rate, first recognized in an outbreak on the Ebola river in africa.
Ebony.
One who works in ebony.
A hard, black variety of vulcanite. It may be cut and polished, and is used for many small articles, as combs and buttons, and for insulating material in electric apparatus.
To make black, or stain black, in imitation of ebony; as, to ebonize wood.
Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance.
Without bracts.
Without bracteoles, or little bracts; -- said of a pedicel or flower stalk.
Hebrew.
Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety.
A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn.
Addiction to drink; habitual drunkenness.
Inclined to drink to excess; intoxicated; tipsy.
To boil or bubble up.
A boiling up or over; effervescence.
Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing.
An instrument for observing the boiling point of liquids, especially for determining the alcoholic strength of a mixture by the temperature at which it boils.
A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor.
A composition of dust of ivory or of bone with a cement; -- used for imitations of valuable stones and in making moldings, seals, etc.
A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases of these tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and come to resemble ivory.
Made of or relating to ivory.
The conversion of certain substances into others which have the appearance or characteristics of ivory.
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