The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - Israel Gollancz William Shakespeare [3641]
EAGLE-SIGHTED - having sight strong enough to stare into the sun without going blind
EAN - to yean; to bring forth young
EANLING - a young lamb
EAR - to plough
EAR-KISSING - private; whispered
EASEFUL - restful
EASILY - without difficulty; smoothly, freely
EAVES - the clipt edge of a thatched roof
EBB - to decline, decay
EBON - black, ebony
EBREW - common spelling of Hebrew in the Renaissance
ECHE - to eke out
ECHO - mountain nymph (from Greek mythology)
ECSTASY - state of frenzy; extreme delight; madness
E'ER - contraction of 'ever'
EFFECT (1) - end result; drift, tenor; expression; intimation
EFFECT (2) - (vb) to produce; to give effect
EFFUSE - pouring out
EFT - ready, convenient
EFTSOONS - shortly, soon
EGAL - equal
EGLANTINE - sweet-briar
EGMA - used mistakenly for 'enigma' in LLL 3175
EGREGIOUS - very great
EISEL - vinegar
EKE (1) - to increase; to add; to supplement
EKE (2) - (avb) also
ELD - old age
ELF - to mat the hair together
EMBALLING - the ceremony of carrying the ball at a coronation (invented by Shk)
EMBASSADOR - ambassador
EMBASSAGE - errand
EMBATTLE - to engage in combat
EMBOSSED - swollen; foaming at the mouth
EMBOWELLED - disembowelled, emptied
EMBRASURE - embrace
EMBRUE - old spelling of 'imbrue'
EMINENCE - exalted station
EMPERY - empire
EMULATION - jealousy, mutiny
EMULOUS - jealous
ENCAVE - to place oneself in a cave
ENCHAFED - excited, irritated
END - conclusion, close; death, destruction
ENFEOFF - to place in possession in fee simple
ENGINE - a machine of war
ENGLUT - to swallow
ENGROSS - to write out in legal hand; to collect; to monopolize
ENGROSSMENT - quantity collected
ENKINDLE - to make keen
ENLARD - to fatten
ENMEW - to shut up, as a hawk is shut up in a mew
ENSCONCE - to cover as with a fort
ENSEAMED - fat, rank
ENSHIELD - hidden
ENTERTAIN - to keep up; to treat; to occupy (time)
ENTERTAINMENT - way of spending time; reception of guests (treatment of guests)
ENTREATMENTS - interviews
EPHESIAN - a toper, a cant term
EQUIPAGE - attendance
EREWHILE - a short time since
ERCLES - Hercules
ESCOT - to pay a man's reckoning, to maintain
ESPERANCE - hope, used as a war-cry
ESPIAL - a scout or spy
ESTIMATION - conjecture
ESTRIDGE - ostridge
ETERNE - eternal
EVEN - coequal
EVEN - to equal
EXAMINE - to question
EXCREMENT - outgrowth (of hair)
EXECUTOR - an executioner
EXEMPT - excluded
EXERCISE - a religious service
EXHALE - to hale or draw out
EXHIBITION - allowance, pension
EXIGENT - death, ending
EXION - mistakenly used for "action" by Mrs Quickly in 2KH4 2134
EXPECT - expectation
EXPEDIENCE - expedition, undertaking
EXPEDIENT - expeditious, swift
EXPIATE - to end
EXPOSTULATE - to expound, discuss
EXPOSTURE - exposure
EXPRESS - to reveal
EXPULSE - to expel
EXSUFFICATE - contemptible
EXTEND - to seize
EXTENT - a seizure
EXTERN - outward
EXTIRP - to root out, extirpate
EXTRACTING - distracting
EXTRAUGHT - extracted, descended
EXTRAVAGANT - foreign, wandering
EXTREMES - extravagance of conduct
EYAS - a young hawk taken fromthe nest for training
EYAS-MUSKET - 'nest-bird', used to mean 'sprightly child'
EYE - the organ of sight; attributed to the heavenly bodies; sight, a slight shade or tinge
EYE - (vb) to appear to the eye
EYE-WINK, EYE-BEAM - look, glance
EYE-GLASS - the lens of the eye
EYESTRINGS - the nerves and tendons of the eyes
F
FACINOROUS - wicked
FACT - guilt
FACTIOUS - instant, importunate
FACULTY - essential virtue or power
FADGE - to suit
FADING - a kind of ending to a song
FAIN - glad
FAIN - gladly
FAIR - beauty
FAITOR - a traitor
FAll - to let fall
FALLOW - fawn-coloured
FALSE - falsehood
FALSING - deceptive
FAMILIAR - a familiar spirit
FANCY -
FANCY-FREE - untouched by love
FANG - to seize in the teeth
FANTASTIC - a fantastical person
FAP - drunk
FAR - farther
FARCED - stuffed
FARDEL - a burden
FARTUOUS - used ridiculously for ' virtuous'
FAST - assuredly, unalterably
FAT - dull
FAVOUR - countenance
FEAR - the object