Thin In-ill In- n Imtik liiMitli his nest, 
Anil hclpoth his fir." m.i hi-tiih ln-in nfler. 
l;i.'li,,,,l Hi,' i;,;i,'i,-ni. III. 42. 
Tin- laru'rst A'i/f/", yet warm within thrir Nest, 
Together with the Hani \\hirh luiil Vm, ilr.-M. 
" <v, tr. of -Invciiiil s satires, xl. 
2. Something like or likened to an egg in shape. 
There was t;ikrn ii ^i-i-nt l:iss hiilihli- \\ ilh a long neck, 
such as chymists are won t to call a philosophical e<ry. Boyte. 
I'lllG egg was used by (In- t-;irly Christians aft a symliol of 
Tin- hup*- of tin- ivsiin-i-rtiiin. The IIMC of eggs at Easter 
has, doubtless, rrlcrrnre to the same Idea. Kggs of mur- 
hle have been foilliil ill the tombs of early Christians. | 
Allenegg. SccddVii. -Ants'eggs. Betantl.- Badegg, 
a iia.i nr worthier person. i'oli(x|.] Coronate eggs, 
costate eggs. See the adjectives. Drappit egg. See 
dntpiiii. -Eared eggs. Seerarrdi. Easter eggs, s, , 
K<t*ifri. Egg and anchor, egg and dart, egg and 
tongue, in iireli., an egg-shapeif ornament alternating 
with a dart-like ornament, used to enrich the ovolo mold- 
Ere-and-dart Molding. Erechtheirm, A thens. 
ing. It is also called the echinus ornament. See echinu*, 
4. The motive Is of Hellenic origin, hut has heen a usual 
one from Hellenic times to the present day, though it has 
not preserved its (Ireek refinement. Egg Of the uni- 
verse, in ancient Greek cosmogony, the sphere of the sky 
with its contents, segmented at the surface of the earth, 
and supposed to he an egg in process of ineuhation. Egg 
Saturday, m- Feast of Eggs (Kestum Ovorum), the day 
l'<-f"iv Quinquagesiiua Sunday. 
By the common people too, the preceding Saturday 
I that preceding " the Sunday before the first in Lent "], in 
Oxfordshire particularly, is called E;t<i Saturday. 
Ilampson, Medii .Kvi Kalendarium, I. 153. 
Electric egg, a form of electrical apparatus used to il- 
lustrate the influence of the pressure of the air upon the 
electrical discharge. It consists of an ellipsoidal glass 
vessel with brass rods inserted at the ends. When it is ex- 
hausted of air, and a discharge of high-potential electrici- 
ty is passed tietween these poles, a continuous violet tuft 
nf light connects them, the form of which varies with the 
ile-rci: of exhaustion. Ephlpplal egg. See ephippial. 
Mohr's egg, the bezoar-stoue of the mohr, an antelope. 
-Roc's egg. See roc. To come In with five eggs', 
to make a foolish remark or suggestion. 
Whiles another gyueth counsel! to make peace wy th the 
Kynge of AiTagoue, . . . another cummeth in wyth hys 
v. egg, and aduyseth to howke in the Kyuge of Costell. 
Sir T. More, Utopia, tr. by Robinson (ed. 1551), sig. E, vl. 
To put all one's eggs into one basket, to venture all 
one lias in one speculation or investment. To take eggs 
for money, to allow one's self to be imposed upon : a 
saying which originated at a time when eggs were so plen- 
tiful as scarcely to have a money value. 
Leon. Mine honest friend, 
Will you take etjfjs for money? 
Mam. No, my lord, I'll fight. 
Shot., Vf. T., I. 2. 
O rogue, rogue, I shall have tap* for my money; I must 
hang myself. Rowley, Match at Midnight. 
egg 1 (eg), i>. t. f< CM*, i.] 1. To apply eggs 
to; cover or mix with eggs, as cutlets, fish, 
bread, etc., in cooking. 2. To pelt with eggs. 
[U. 8.] 
The abolition editor of the " Newport (Ky.) News" was 
/''/ out of Alexandria, Campbell County, in that State, 
on Monday. Baltimore Sun, Aug. 1, 1857. 
egg 2 (eg), v. t. [< ME. eggen, incite, urge on, 
instigate (in either good or bad sense), < Icel. 
eggja = Sw. egga, upp-egga = Dan. egge, op- 
egge, incite, egg, lit. ' edge,' < Icel. egg = Sw. 
egg = Dan. egg = AS. ecg, E. edge: see edge, 
n., and edge, -., a doublet of egg 2 ."] To incite 
or urge : encourage ; instigate ; provoke : now 
nearly always with on, 
Adam and Eue he eggede to don ille, 
Consailde Cayne to ciillen hiu brother. 
Pier* Ploirman (C), II. 61. 
Some vpon no lust A lawful grounds (being egged on by 
ambition, euuic, and couetise) nre induced to follow the 
armie. llalrluyfi l'oyaget I 
Thou shonldst be prancing of thy steed, 
To egg thy soldiers forward in thy wars. 
Greene, Alphonsus. ill. 
egg-albumin (eg'al-bu'min), . The albumin 
wnich occurs in the white of eggs. It is close- 
ly allied to serum-albumin, but differs in cer- 
I'ain physical properties. 
egg-animal (eg'an*i-mal), n. One of the Oou- 
la ri<i. 
egg-apple (eg'ap'l), . Same as egg-plant. 
eggar, . SIT ri/ger3. 
egg-bag (eg'bag), n. 1. The ovary. 2. A bag 
used by conjurers, from which eggs seem to be 
taken though it is empty. 
egg-bald (cg'billd). . Bald as an egg; com- 
pletely bald. Tennyson. 
1853 
egg-basket (eg'lms ket), . An open wire bas- 
ket for use in boiling eggs, by means of which 
the eggs may all le taken up at once, and the 
water drained off of them. 
egg-beater (eg'be'ter), . An instrument hav- 
ing a piece to be twirled by the hand, for use 
in whipping eggs. 
egg-bird (eg'berd), . 1. A popular name of 
the sooty tern. Sterna (Haliptana) fuliginosii, 
whose eggs, like those of some other terns, 
have commercial value in the West Indies and 
southern United States. 2. A name of sun- 
dry other sea-birds, as murres, guillemots, etc., 
which nest in large communities, and whose 
eggs are of economic or commercial value. 
egg-blower (eg'blo'tr), n. A blowpipe used 
by o<ilogis>ts in emptying eggs of their contents 
by forcing in a stream of air or water with the 
breath through a hole in the shell made with 
the egg-drill. They are of various styles and sizes, gen- 
erally curved or hooked at the small end like a chemists' 
blowpipe, but smaller and finer at the point. 
egg-born (eg'bdrn), a. Produced from an egg, 
as all animals are; but specifically, hatched 
from the egg of an oviparous animal. 
egg-carrier (eg'kar j i-er), n. A device for trans- 
porting eggs without injury, (a) A box or frame 
with pocket* or partitions of cloth, wire, card)>oard, etc., 
for holding each a single egg of poultry. (6) In juth-cul- 
ture, an apparatus for carrying ova in water to be subse- 
quently hatched. 
egg-case (eg'kas), n. A natural casing or en- 
velop of some kinds of eggs, (a) The ootheca or 
case in which the eggs of various insects, as the cockroach, 
are contained when laid. (b) The silken case In which 
many spiders inclose their eggs ; an egg-pouch, (r) The 
case in which the eggs of sharks and other elasmobranchs 
are contained ; a sea-borrow, (rf) The ovicapsule of vari- 
ous marine carnivorous gastropods, especially of the fam- 
ilies Buccinidte, Itfuricitlce, etc. See ovicapsule. 
egg-cell (eg'sel), n. An ovum ; an ovule ; an 
egg itself, when it is in the cell stage, or state 
of a cell, as a nucleated mass of protoplasm, 
with or without a nucleolus, and with or with- 
out a cell-wall, but ordinarily possessing both. 
See ovum. 
egg-cleavage (eg'kle'vaj), . The segmenta- 
tion of the vitellus of an egg; cell-cleavage of 
an egg-cell ; the germination of an ovum, ovule, 
or egg from the stage of a cytula to that of a 
i n o nil a. It is one of the earliest processes of germination, 
in which the single muss of the formative yolk is divided 
into a great number of other mosses or cells, by subse- 
quent differentiation of which the whole body of the 
embryo is formed. Egg-cleavage proceeds in various 
"rhythms" or ratios, as 2, 4, 8, 16, etc. Dlscoidal egg- 
cleavage. See duwidal. 
egg-cockle (eg'kok'l), . An edible cockle, 
Cardinal elatum. 
egg-cup (eg'kup), n. A cup for use in eating 
soft-boiled eggs. In its original form, It is made to 
hold a single egg upright while this is eaten out of the shell 
with a spoon. Another form is double, with one end like 
the former, and the reverse end larger for eggs to be 
broken into it. 
egg-dance (eg'dans), n. A dance by a single 
performer, wno is required to execute a com- 
plicated figure, blindfolded, among a number 
of eggs, without touching them. 
Preparations in the middle of the road for the egg-dance, 
so strikingly described by Goethe. 
Hone, Year Book, p. 962. 
egg-drill (eg'dril), n. An instrument for drill- 
ing or boring a small round hole in the shell of 
a bird's egg, used by oologists. it consists of a lit- 
tle steel or iron bar which may be twirled in the fingers, 
having a sharp-pointed conical head roughened to o rasp- 
ing surface. 
egget, n. and t'. An obsolete form of edge. 
eggementt, . See eggment. 
egg-ended (eg'en'ded), a. Terminated by 
ovoidal eaps or ends. 
Spherical shells, such as the ends of egg-ended cylindri- 
cal boilers. Rankine, Steam Engine, 9 63. 
egger 1 (eg'er), n. [< eggi + -cr*. Also called 
i il'l/rr, where the I appears to be merely intru- 
sive.] One who makes a business of collecting 
eggs, as of birds or turtles. 
egger 2 (eg'er), n. [< egg*, v., + -rl.] One 
who eggs, urges, or incites: usually with on. 
egger 3 (eg'er), n. [Also written cggar; origin 
uncertain.] In entom., a reddish-brown moth 
of either of the genera Lasiocampa and Erio- 
(/uxtrr: as, the oak-egger, L. querevs; the grass- 
"/</' v, L. irifolii; the small egger, E. lacustris. 
egger-moth (eg'er-m6th), . Same as eqger*. 
eggery (eg'er-i), n. ; pi. njii/'rirs (-iz). [< egg 1 
r -0nf.1 A nest of eggs; a place where eggs 
are laid. [Rare.] 
egg-fish (eg'tish). . One of many names ap- 
plied to gymnodont plectognath fishes, from 
their shape when inflated. They are chiefly of 
the family Ti-trtidiintiilir. 
egg-shell 
egg-flip (eg'flip'), n. A hot drink made of ale 
or beer with eggs, sugar, spice, and sometimes 
a little spirit, thoroughly beaten together. It 
is popularly called a yard of flannel, from its 
fleecy appearance. 
The revolution Itself wu born In the room of the Cau- 
cus Club, amidst clouds of smoke and deep poUtinn i>i 
' nineteenth Century, XXIII. 8. 
egg-forceps (eg'f6r'seps), n. sing, and pi. 1. 
An instrument used in fish-culture in handling 
or removing ova. Also called egg-tongs. 2. 
A delicate spring-forceps used by oologists to 
pick out pieees of the embryo or membrane 
from eggs prepared for the cabinet. 
egg-glass (eg'glas), n. 1. A sand-glass running 
about three minutes, for timing the boiling of 
eggs. 2. An egg-cup of glass. 
egg-glue (e^'glS), n. A tough, viscid, gelatinous 
substance in which the eggs of some animals, 
as crustaceans, are enveloped, serving to at- 
tach them to the body of the parent ; oogloea. 
egg-hot (eg'hot), n. A posset made of eggs, ale, 
sugar, and brandy. Lamb. 
egging (eg'ing), n. The act or art of collect- 
ing eggs, as for oblogical or commercial pur- 
poses ; the business of an egger. 
egg-laying (eg'la'ing), a. Oviparous ; laying 
eggs to be hatched outside the body. 
eggler (eg'ler), n. See eggeri. 
egg-lighter (eg'li'ter), w. Same as egg-tester. 
egg-membrane (eg'mem'bran), n. The cell- 
wall of an ovum; the vitelline membrane ; in 
omitli., the egg-pod. 
eggmentt (eg'ment), n. [ME. eggement; < egg' 2 
+ -ment.~\ Incitement; instigation. 
Thurgh woman nea eggement 
Mankind was lorn, and damned ay to die. 
Ounuw, Man of Law's Tale, 1. 744. 
egg-nog (eg'nog'), . A sweet, rich, and stimu- 
lating cold drink made of eggs, milk, sugar, and 
spirits. The yolks of the eggs are thoroughly mixed 
with the sugar (a tahlespoonful for each egg), and half a 
pint of spirits is added for each dozen of eggs. Lastly, 
half a pint of milk for each egg is stirred in. The whites 
of the eggs are used to make a froth. 
egg-pie (eg'pi'), n. A pie made of eggs. Halli- 
icell. 
egg-plant (eg'plant), n. The brinjal or auber- 
gine, Solatium Melongena, cultivated for its 
large oblong or 
ovate fruit, 
which is of a 
dark-purple col- 
or, or sometimes 
white or yellow. 
The fruit is high- 
ly esteemed as a 
vegetable. Also 
called egg-apple, 
mad-apple. 
egg-pod (eg'- 
pod), n. Apod 
or case envelop- 
ing and contain- 
ing an egg or 
eggS ; SpeClfiCal- 
ly, in ornith., the 
membrana putaminis, the tough membrane 
which lines the shell of a bird's egg. See pu- 
tamen. 
egg-pop (eg'pop'), n. A kind of egg-nog. [New 
Eng.] 
Lewis temporarily contended with the stronger fasci- 
nations of egg-pop. Lowell, Fireside Travels, p. 59. 
No more egg-pop, made with eggs that would have been 
fighting cocks, to judge by the pugnacity the beverage con- 
taining their yolks developed. O.W. Holme*, Essays, p. 146. 
egg-pouch (eg'pouch), n. A sac of silk or other 
material in which certain spiders and insect* 
carry their eggs ; the odiheca. 
eggs-and-bacon (egz'and-ba'kn), n. [So called 
from the two shades of yellow in the flowers.] 
1. The bird's-foot trefoil, Lotus corniculatvg. 
2. The toad-flax, Linaria rulgaris. 
eggs-and-collops (egz'and-kol'ops), n. Same 
as cggx-iind-bacon, 2. 
egg-sauce (eg's&s), n. Sauce prepared with 
eggs, used with boiled fish, fowls, etc. 
egg-shaped (eg'shapt), a. Ovoid; having the 
figure of a solid whose cross-section anvwhere 
is circular, and whose long section is oval (deep- 
er near one end than near the other). An <."." 
thaped egg Is technically distinguished in oology from on 
<il. pyriform, or ntbfpherical egg. 
egg-shell (eg'shel), n. The shell or outside 
covering of an egg: chiefly said of the hard, 
brittle, calcareous covering of birds' eggs. This 
shell consists mostly of carbonate of lime or chalk, depos- 
