Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws.

An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning.

A person afflicted with dyspepsia.

Pertaining to dyspepsia; having dyspepsia; as, a dyspeptic or dyspeptical symptom.

An insoluble albuminous body formed from casein and other proteid substances by the action of gastric juice.

Difficulty in swallowing, or inability to swallow.

A difficulty in producing vocal sounds; enfeebled or depraved voice.

Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets.

Difficulty of breathing.

Affected with shortness of breath; relating to dyspn/a.

An element of the rare earth-group. Symbol Dy; at. wt., 162.5.

The doctrine of purposelessness; a term applied by Haeckel to that branch of physiology which treats of rudimentary organs, in view of their being useless to the life of the organism.

Difficult delivery pr parturition.

Cleaving with difficulty.

Pertaining to, or afflicted with, dysury.

Difficult or painful discharge of urine.

The Chinese yellow antelope (Procapra gutturosa), a remarkably swift-footed animal, inhabiting the deserts of Central Asia, Tibet, and China.

The kiang, a wild horse or wild ass of Tibet (Asinus hemionus).

Originally, the highest note in the scale of Guido; hence, proverbially, any extravagant saying.

to send (an e-mail message) to someone; as, I emailed the article to the editor; she emailed me her report.

A contraction for even. See Even.

A contraction for ever. See Ever.

the Akkadian god of wisdom; son of Apsu and father of Marduk; counterpart of the Sumerian Enki.

Every one of the two or more individuals composing a number of objects, considered separately from the rest. It is used either with or without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of you.

Everywhere.

a genus of moths including the imperial moth (Eacles imperialis).

See Eddish.

Same as Eagre.

In an eager manner.

The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire.

Any large, rapacious bird of the Falcon family, esp. of the genera Aquila and Hali/etus. The eagle is remarkable for strength, size, graceful figure, keenness of vision, and extraordinary flight. The most noted species are the golden eagle (Aquila chrysa/tus); the imperial eagle of Europe (Aquila mogilnik or Aquila imperialis); the American bald eagle (Hali/etus leucocephalus); the European sea eagle (Hali/etus albicilla); and the great harpy eagle (Thrasaetus harpyia). The figure of the eagle, as the king of birds, is commonly used as an heraldic emblem, and also for standards and emblematic devices. See Bald eagle, Harpy, and Golden eagle.

Sharp-sighted as an eagle.

Farsighted and strong-sighted; sharp-sighted.

Having the wings of an eagle; swift, or soaring high, like an eagle.

A female or hen eagle.

A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; a/tites.

A young eagle, or a diminutive eagle.

A kind of fragrant wood. See Agallochum.

See Eddish.

A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly called the bore or tidal bore. See Bore.

An alderman.

Ale.

Uncle.

To bring forth, as young; to yean.

A lamb just brought forth; a yeanling.

To plow or till; to cultivate.

Having the ear perforated.

Thinking chiefly or most readily through, or in terms related to, the sense of hearing; specif., thinking words as spoken, as a result of familiarity with speech or of mental peculiarity; -- opposed to eye-minded.

The earwig.

having the shape of an ear.

any of various large edible marine gastropod mollusks of the genus Haliotis, having a flattened ear-shaped shell with a pearly interior; -- called also sea-ear. See Abalone.

Deafening; disagreeably loud or shrill; as, ear-splitting strains.

Arable; tillable.

Ache or pain in the ear.

Receiving by the ear.

A cap or cover to protect the ear from cold.

A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms.

A pendant for the ear; an earring; as, a pair of eardrops.

The tympanum. See Illust. of Ear.

Having (such or so many) ears; -- used in composition; as, long-eared-eared; sharp-eared; full-eared; ten-eared.

Fear or timidity, especially of something supernatural.

A plowing of land.

The needlefish.

The lobe of the ear.

The jurisdiction of an earl; the territorial possessions of an earl.

Alderman.

The red-breasted merganser (Merganser serrator).

Without ears; hence, deaf or unwilling to hear.

An earring.

occurring at a prior time; as, on earlier occasions.

preceding all others in time.

The state of being early or forward; promptness.

A lock or curl of hair near the ear; a lovelock. See Lovelock.

In advance of the usual or appointed time; in good season; prior in time; among or near the first; -- opposed to late; as, the early bird; an early spring; early fruit.

being somewhat early.

To mark, as sheep, by cropping or slitting the ear.

To curdle, as milk.

Gained as a result of effort or action; -- used especially of income; as, earned income. Contrasted with unearned.

someone who earns wages in return for labor.

Something given, or a part paid beforehand, as a pledge; pledge; handsel; a token of what is to come.

Serious.

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.