Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E

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Exundation (n.) An overflow, or overflowing abundance. [R.] -- Ray.

Exungulated (imp. & p. p.) of Exungulate

Exungulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exungulate

Exungulate (v. t.) To pare off, as nails, the hoof, etc. [R.]

Exuperable (a.) Surmountable; superable. [Obs.] -- Johnson.

Exuperance (n.) Superiority; superfluity. [Obs.] -- Sir K. Digby.

Exuperant (a.) Surpassing; exceeding; surmounting. [Obs.]

Exuperate (v. t.) To excel; to surmount. [Obs.]

Exuperation (n.) The act of rising or coming into view. [Obs.] -- Baxter.

Exurgent (a.) Arising; coming to light. [Obs.]

Exuscitate (v. t.) See Exsuscitate [Obs.] -- T. Adams.

Exustion (n.) The act or operation of burning up. -- Bailey.

Exutory (n.) (Med.) An issue.

Exuvia () n. sing. of Exuviae.

Exuviability (n.) Capability of shedding the skin periodically. -- Craig.

Exuviable (a.) Capable of being cast off in the form of exuviae.

Exuviae (n. pl.) (Zool.) 殼；蛻皮；殘骸 Cast skins, shells, or coverings of animals; any parts of animals which are shed or cast off, as the skins of snakes, the shells of lobsters, etc.

Exuviae (n. pl.) (Geol.) The fossil shells and other remains which animals have left in the strata of the earth.

Exuviae (n.) Cast-off skins or coverings of various organisms during ecdysis.

Exuvial (a.) [動] 蛻皮的 Of or pertaining to exuviae. "Exuvial layers." "Exuvial deposits."

Exuvial (a.) Of or relating to the cast-off skins or cuticles of various animals.

Exuviated (imp. & p. p.) of Exuviate

Exuviating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exuviate

Exuviate (v. i.) To shed an old covering or condition preliminary to taking on a new one; to molt.

There is reason to suppose that very old crayfish do not exuviate every year. -- Huxley.

Exuviate (v.) Cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; "our dog sheds every Spring" [syn: shed, molt, exuviate, moult, slough].

Exuviation (n.) (Zool.) The rejecting or casting off of some part, more particularly, the outer cuticular layer, as the shells of crustaceans, skins of snakes, etc.; molting; ecdysis.

Ex-votos (n. pl. ) of Ex-voto

Ex-voto (n.) An offering to a church in fulfillment of a vow.

Ey (n.) An island. [Obs.]

Eyren (n. pl. ) of Ey

Ey (n.) See Egg. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Ey, () An interj. of wonder or inquiry. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Eyot (n.) A little island in a river or lake. See Ait. [Written also ait, ayt, ey, eyet, and eyght.] -- Blackstone.

EY. A watery place; water. Co. Litt 6.

Eyalet (n.) Formerly, one of the administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- now called a vilayet.

Eyas (n.) (Zool.) A nesting or unfledged bird; in falconry, a young hawk from the nest, not able to prey for itself. -- Shak J. H. Walsh

Eyas (a.) Unfledged, or newly fledged. [Obs.]

Like eyas hawk up mounts unto the skies, His newly budded pinions to assay. -- Spebser.

Eyas (n.) An unfledged or nestling hawk.

Eyasmusket (n.) An unfledged or young male sparrow hawk. [Obs.] -- Shak.

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

Eye (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 eyes are immovable ocelli, or compound eyes made up of numerous ocelli. See Ocellus. Description of illustration: a b Conjunctiva; c Cornea; d Sclerotic; e Choroid; f Cillary Muscle; g Cillary Process; h Iris; i Suspensory Ligament; k Prosterior Aqueous Chamber between h and i; l Anterior Aqueous Chamber; m Crystalline Lens; n Vitreous Humor; o Retina; p Yellow spot; q Center of blind spot; r Artery of Retina in center of the Optic Nerve.

Note: The essential parts of the eye are inclosed in a tough outer coat, the sclerotic, to which the muscles moving it are attached, and which in front changes into the transparent cornea. A little way back of cornea, the crystalline lens is suspended, dividing the eye into two unequal cavities, a smaller one in front filled with a watery fluid, the aqueous humor, and larger one behind filled with a clear jelly, the vitreous humor. The sclerotic is lined with a highly pigmented membrane, the choroid, and this is turn is lined in the back half of the eyeball with the nearly transparent retina, in which the fibers of the optic nerve ramify. The choroid in front is continuous with the iris, which has a contractile opening in the center, the pupil, admitting light to the lens which brings the rays to a focus and forms an image upon the retina, where the light, falling upon delicate structures called rods and cones, causes them to stimulate the fibres of the optic nerve to transmit visual impressions to the brain.

Eye (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.

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

In my eye, she is the sweetest lady that I looked on. -- Shak.

Eye (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.

We shell express our duty in his eye. -- Shak.

Her shell your hear disproved to her eyes. -- Shak.

Eye (n.) Observation; oversight; watch; inspection; notice; attention; regard. "Keep eyes upon her." -- Shak.

Booksellers . . . have an eye to their own advantage. -- Addison.

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

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

Eye (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.

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

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

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

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

Eye (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.

Eye (n.) The hole through the upper millstone.

Eye (n.) That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty. "The very eye of that proverb." -- Shak.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts. -- Milton.

Eye (n.) Tinge; shade of color. [Obs.]

Red with an eye of blue makes a purple. -- Boyle.

By the eye, In abundance. [Obs.] -- Marlowe.
Elliott eye (Naut.), A loop in a hemp cable made around a thimble and served.
Eye agate, A kind of circle agate, the central parts of which are of deeper tints than the rest of the mass. -- Brande & C.
Eye animalcule (Zool.), A flagellate infusorian belonging to Euglena and related genera; -- so called because it has a colored spot like an eye at one end.
Eye doctor, An opthalmologist or optometrist; -- formerly called an oculist.
Eye of a volute (Arch.), The circle in the center of volute.

Eye of day, Eye of the morning, Eye of heaven, The sun. "So gently shuts the eye of day." -- Mrs. Barbauld.

Eye of a ship, The foremost part in the bows of a ship, where, formerly, eyes were painted; also, the hawser holes. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Half an eye, Very imperfect sight; a careless glance; as, to see a thing with half an eye; often figuratively. "Those who have but half an eye." -- B. Jonson.

To catch one's eye, To attract one's notice.

To find favor in the eyes (of), To be graciously received and treated.

To have an eye to, To pay particular attention to; to watch. "Have an eye to Cinna." -- Shak.

To keep an eye on, To watch.

To set the eyes on, To see; to have a sight of.

In the eye of the wind (Naut.), In a direction opposed to

the wind; as, a ship sails in the eye of the wind.

Eyed (imp. & p. p.) of Eye

Eying / Eyeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Eye

Eye (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.

Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportioned strength. -- Milton.

Eye (v. i.) To appear; to look. [Obs.]

My becomings kill me, when they do not Eye well to you. -- Shak.

Eye (n.) The organ of sight [syn: eye, oculus, optic].

Eye (n.) Good discernment (either visually or as if visually); "she has an eye for fresh talent"; "he has an artist's eye".

Eye (n.) Attention to what is seen; "he tried to catch her eye".

Eye (n.) An area that is approximately central within some larger region; "it is in the center of town"; "they ran forward into the heart of the struggle"; "they were in the eye of the storm" [syn: center, centre, middle, heart, eye].

Eye (n.) A small hole or loop (as in a needle); "the thread wouldn't go through the eye".

Eye (v.) Look at [syn: eye, eyeball].

Eye, () (Heb. 'ain, meaning "flowing"), Applied (1) to a fountain, frequently; (2) to colour (Num. 11:7; R.V., "appearance," marg. "eye"); (3) the face (Ex. 10:5, 15; Num. 22:5, 11), in Num. 14:14, "face to face" (R.V. marg., "eye to eye"). "Between the eyes", i.e., the forehead (Ex. 13:9, 16).

The expression (Prov. 23:31), "when it giveth his colour in the cup," is literally, "when it giveth out [or showeth] its eye." The beads or bubbles of wine are thus spoken of. "To set the eyes" on any one is to view him with favour (Gen. 44:21; Job 24:23; Jer. 39:12). This word is used figuratively in the expressions an "evil eye" (Matt. 20:15), a "bountiful eye" (Prov. 22:9), "haughty eyes" (6:17 marg.), "wanton eyes" (Isa. 3:16), "eyes full of adultery" (2 Pet. 2:14), "the lust of the eyes" (1 John 2:16). Christians are warned against "eye-service" (Eph. 6:6; Col. 3:22). Men were sometimes punished by having their eyes put out (1 Sam. 11:2; Samson, Judg. 16:21; Zedekiah, 2 Kings 25:7).

The custom of painting the eyes is alluded to in 2 Kings 9:30, R.V.; Jer. 4:30; Ezek. 23:40, a custom which still prevails extensively among Eastern women.

Eyeball (n.) The ball or globe of the eye.

Eyeball (n.) The ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye [syn: eyeball, orb].

Eyeball (v.) Look at [syn: eye, eyeball].

Eyebar (n.) (Engin.) A bar with an eye at one or both ends.

Eyebeam (n.) A glance of the eye. -- Shak.

Eyebolt (n.) (Mach.) A bolt which a looped head, or an opening in the head.

Compare: Euphrasy

Euphrasy (n.) (Bot.) Eyebright+({Euphrasia+officionalis">The plant eyebright ({Euphrasia officionalis), formerly regarded as beneficial in disorders of the eyes.

Then purged with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see. -- Milton.

Eyebright (n.) (Bot.) A small annual plant ({Euphrasia officinalis), formerly much used as a remedy for diseases of the eye.

Eyebrow (n.) 眉，眉毛；【建】窗頭線飾；【船】舷窗眉板；【紡】回絲 The brow or hairy arch above the eye. -- Shak.

Eyebrow (n.) The arch of hair above each eye [syn: eyebrow, brow supercilium].

Eyecup (n.) 洗眼杯；洗眼器 A small oval porcelain or glass cup, having a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye. it is used in the application of liquid remedies to eyes; -- called also eyeglass.

Eyecup (n.) A small vessel with a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye; use to apply medicated or cleansing solution to the eyeball; "an eyecup is called an eyebath in Britain" [syn: eyecup, eyebath, eye cup].

Eyecup (n.) (Embryology) A two-walled cuplike depression that develops into the pigmented and sensory layers of the retina [syn: optic cup, eyecup].

Eyed (a.) Heaving (such or so many) eyes; -- used in composition; as sharp-eyed; dull-eyed; sad-eyed; ox-eyed Juno; myriad-eyed.

Eyed (a.) Having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination; "a peacock's eyed feathers"; "red-eyed" [ant: eyeless].

Eyedrop (n.) A tear. [Poetic] -- Shak.

Eyedrop (n.) A drop from an eye dropper [syn: eyedrop, eye-drop].

Eyedrop (n.) A method of irrigating the eye used by ophthalmologists [syn: eyedrop, eye-drop].

Eyeflap (n.) A blinder on a horse's bridle.

Eyeful (a.) Filling or satisfying the eye; visible; remarkable. [Obs.] "Eyeful trophies." -- Chapman.

Eyeful (n.) A view of something remarkable; a completely satisfying view; as much as, or more than, one would want to see; as, he got an eyeful of burnt-out buildings on his tour of the south Bronx.

Eyeful (n.) An unusually attractive person, especially a beautiful woman.

Eyeful (n.) A strikingly beautiful woman; "she was a statuesque redheaded eyeful".

Eyeful (n.) A full view; a good look; "they wanted to see violence and they got an eyeful".

Eyeglance (n.) A glance of eye.

Compare: Eyecup

Eyecup (n.) A small oval porcelain or glass cup, having a rim curved to fit the orbit of the eye. it is used in the application of liquid remedies to eyes; -- called also eyeglass.

Eyeglass (n.) [C] 單片眼鏡；鏡片；眼鏡 [P]；【物】（接）目鏡 A lens of glass worn in front of the eye to assist vision; -- usually used in the plural, referring to a pair of lenses fixed together in a frame, and worn resting on the bridge of the nose, to improve the vision. A single eyeglass in a frame is called a {monocle}.

Eyeglass (n.) Eyepiece of a telescope, microscope, etc.

Eyeglass (n.) The retina. [Poetic]

Eyeglass (n.) A glass eyecup. See {Eyecup}.

Eyeglass (n.) Lens for correcting defective vision in one eye; held in place by facial muscles [syn: {monocle}, {eyeglass}].

Eyehole (n.) A circular opening to recive a hook, cord, ring, or rope; an eyelet.

Eyehole (n.) A hole (in a door or an oven etc) through which you can peep [syn: peephole, spyhole, eyehole].

Eyehole (n.) A small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord or hook or bar [syn: eyelet, eyehole].

Eyelash (n.) （一根）睫毛，（一根）眼毛 [C] The fringe of hair that edges the eyelid; -- usually in the pl.

Eyelash (n.) A hair of the fringe on the edge of the eyelid.

Eyelash (n.) Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids [syn: {eyelash}, {lash}, {cilium}].

Eyeless (a.) Without eyes; blind. "Eyeless rage." -- Shak.

Eyeless (a.) Lacking eyes or eyelike features; "eyeless fish that evolved in dark caves"; "an eyeless needle" [ant: eyed].

Eyeless (a.) Lacking sight; "blind as an eyeless beggar" [syn: eyeless, sightless, unseeing].

Eyelet (n.) A small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc.

Eyelet (n.) A metal ring or grommet, or short metallic tube, the ends of which can be bent outward and over to fasten it in place; -- used to line an eyelet hole.

Eyelet hole, A hole made for an eyelet.

Eyelet punch, A machine for punching eyelet holes and fastening eyelets, as in paper or cloth.

Eyelet ring. See Eyelet, 2.

Eyelet (n.) A small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord or hook or bar [syn: eyelet, eyehole].

Eyelet (n.) Fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines [syn: cringle, eyelet, loop, grommet, grummet].

Eyeleteer (n.) A small, sharp-pointed instrument used in piercing eyelet holes; a stiletto.

Eyelid (n.) (Anat.) 眼皮，眼瞼 [C] The cover of the eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers or uncovers the eyeball at pleasure.

Eyelid (n.) Either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye; "his lids would stay open no longer" [syn: {eyelid}, {lid}, {palpebra}].

Eyen (n. pl.) Eyes. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. -- Spenser.

Eyne, or Eyen, (n.) Plural of eye; -- now obsolete, or used only in poetry. -- Shak.

Eyepiece (n.) 【物】接目鏡 The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed.

Syn: Ocular.

{Collimating eyepiece}. See under {Collimate}.

{Negative}, or {Huyghenian}, {eyepiece}, An eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses with their curved surfaces turned toward the object glass, and separated from each other by about half the sum of their focal distances, the image viewed by the eye being formed between the two lenses. it was devised by Huyghens, who applied it to the telescope. Campani applied it to the microscope, whence it is sometimes called {Campani's eyepiece}.

{Positive eyepiece}, An eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses placed with their curved surfaces toward each other, and separated by a distance somewhat less than the focal distance of the one nearest eye, the image of the object viewed being beyond both lenses; -- called also, from the name of the inventor, {Ramsden's eyepiece}.

{Terrestrial}, or {Erecting eyepiece}, An eyepiece used in telescopes for viewing terrestrial objects, consisting of three, or usually four, lenses, so arranged as to present the image of the object viewed in an erect position.

Eyepiece (n.) Combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments [syn: {eyepiece}, {ocular}].

Eyepiece (n.) [ C ]（顯微鏡等儀器的）（接）目鏡 The part of a piece of equipment, for example, a microscope, through which you look.

Eyer (n.) 注視者 One who eyes another. -- Gayton.

Eyereach (n.) The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot. "A seat in eyereach of him." -- B. Jonson.

Eye-saint (n.) An object of interest to the eye; one worshiped with the eyes. [Obs.]

That's the eye-saint, I know, Among young gallants. -- Beau. & Fl.

Eyesalve (n.) Ointment for the eye.

Eyeservant (n.) A servant who attends faithfully to his duty only when watched.

Eyeservice (n.) Service performed only under inspection, or the eye of an employer.

Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers. -- Col. iii. 22. Eye shadow

Eyeshot (n.) Range, reach, or glance of the eye; view; sight; as, to be out of eyeshot. -- Dryden.

Eyeshot (n.) The range of the eye; "they were soon out of view" [syn: view, eyeshot].

Eyesight (n.) Sight of the eye; the sense of seeing; view; observation.

Josephus sets this down from his own eyesight. -- Bp. Wilkins.

Eyesight (n.) Normal use of the faculty of vision [syn: eyesight, seeing, sightedness].

Eyesore (n.) Something offensive to the eye or sight; a blemish.

Mordecai was an eyesore to Haman. -- L'Estrange.

Eyesore (n.) Something very ugly and offensive.

Eye-splice (n.) (Naut.) A splice formed by bending a rope's end back, and fastening it into the rope, forming a loop or eye. See Illust. under Splice.

Eye-spot (n.) (Zool.) A simple visual organ found in many invertebrates, consisting of pigment cells covering a sensory nerve termination.

Eye-spot (n.) (Zool.) An eyelike spot of color.

Eye-spotted (a.) Marked with spots like eyes.

Juno's bird, in her eye-spotted train. -- Spenser.

Eyestalk (n.) (Zool.) One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.

Eyestone (n.) A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small marine shell of the family Turbinidae, used to remove a foreign substance from the eye. It is put into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, and allowed to work its way out at the outer corner, bringing with it the substance.

Eyestone (n.) (Min.) Eye agate. See under Eye.

Eyestring (n.) The tendon by which the eye is moved. -- Shak.

Compare: Eyot

Eyot (n.) A little island in a river or lake. See Ait. [Written also ait, ayt, ey, eyet, and eyght.] -- Blackstone.

Eyet (n.) An island. See Eyot.

Eyeteeth (n. pl. ) of Eyetooth

Eyetooth (n.) (Anat.) 犬齒A canine tooth of the upper jaw. See {Teeth}.

{To cut one's eyeteeth}, To become acute or knowing. [Colloq.].

Eyetooth (n.) One of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars [syn: {canine}, {canine tooth}, {eyetooth}, {eye tooth}, {dogtooth}, {cuspid}].

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