Egg
[eg] or [ɛɡ]
Definition
(noun.) animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds.
(noun.) oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food.
(verb.) coat with beaten egg; 'egg a schnitzel'.
(verb.) throw eggs at.
Typist: Tabitha--From WordNet
Definition
(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/
Edited by Anselm
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Ovum.
Edited by Lilian
Definition
n. an oval body laid by birds and certain other animals from which their young are produced: anything shaped like an egg.—ns. Egg′-app′le or plant the brinjal or aubergine an East Indian annual with egg-shaped fruit; Egg′-bird a sooty tern; Egg′-cō′sy a covering put over boiled eggs to keep in the heat after being taken from the pot: Egg′-cup a cup for holding an egg at table; Egg′er Egg′ler one who collects eggs; Egg′ery a place where eggs are laid; Egg′-flip a hot drink made of ale with eggs sugar spice &c.; Egg′-glass a small sand-glass for regulating the boiling of eggs; Egg′-nog a drink compounded of eggs and hot beer spirits &c.; Egg′-shell the shell or calcareous substance which covers the eggs of birds; Egg′-slice a kitchen utensil for lifting fried eggs out of a pan; Egg′-spoon a small spoon used in eating eggs from the shell.—A bad egg (coll.) a worthless person; Put all one's eggs into one basket to risk all on one enterprise; Take eggs for money to be put off with mere promises of payment; Teach your grandmother to suck eggs spoken contemptuously to one who would teach those older and wiser than himself; Tread upon eggs to walk warily to steer one's way carefully in a delicate situation.
v.t. to instigate.
Editor: Trudy
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of finding a nest of eggs, denotes wealth of a substantial character, happiness among the married and many children. This dream signifies many and varied love affairs to women. To eat eggs, denotes that unusual disturbances threaten you in your home. To see broken eggs and they are fresh, fortune is ready to shower upon you her richest gifts. A lofty spirit and high regard for justice will make you beloved by the world. To dream of rotten eggs, denotes loss of property and degradation. To see a crate of eggs, denotes that you will engage in profitable speculations. To dream of being spattered with eggs, denotes that you will sport riches of doubtful origin. To see bird eggs, signifies legacies from distant relations, or gain from an unexpected rise in staple products.
Checked by Keith
Unserious Contents or Definition
A wholesome, yet fowl, product, of no use until broken. Sometimes a cure for indigestion or bad acting.
Edited by Brent
Examples
- Such being done, place your ventilator first, egg drawer next, and tank last. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Then the bowl became ovoid, or egg-shaped, and the end of the handle was rounded, without the notch. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Keep a pie pan filled with water in the ventilator for moisture and keep two or three moist sponges in the egg drawer, displacing a few eggs for the purpose. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- That the small size of the egg is a real case of adaptation we may infer from the fact of the mon-parasitic American cuckoo laying full-sized eggs. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- That was the cot of _my_ infancy; an old egg-box. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- By the bye, I must mind not to rise on your hearth with only a glass of water then: I must bring an egg at the least, to say nothing of fried ham. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was like something coming out of an egg. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Each female cod has more than 9,000,000 eggs, but the numbers are kept down by a host of enemies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Others, again, searched the surrounding trees for fruit, nuts, small birds, and eggs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- In this family several hen birds unite and lay first a few eggs in one nest and then in another; and these are hatched by the males. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Ham and eggs or eggs with cheese? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Caliphronas, touching neither coffee nor tea, drank water only, and confined his eating to bread, honey, and eggs. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- She loved this hoard as a bird loves its eggs. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He had birds' eggs, young birds, and the honey and honeycomb of wild bees. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Obeying these impulses, he had become the husband of Perdita: egged on by them, he found himself the lover of Evadne. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Editor: Priscilla