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What peremptory eagie-fg'htad eye 
Dares look upon the heaven of her brow,, 
That is not blinded by her msjefty f Shakefpeare. 
E A'GLB-SPEED, f. Swiftnefs,. like tliat of an eagle : 
Abrupt, with caglc-Jpeed (lie cut the Iky, 
Inftant invifible to mortal eye. Pope. 
E A'GLE-STONE, f A fpecies of argillaceous iron 
ore, fancifully faid to be found at the entrance of the 
holes in which the eagles make their nefts, and affirmed 
by the ancients to have a particular virtue in defending 
the eagle’s neft from thunder.—The eagle-Jlone contains, 
in a ca-vity within it, a fmall loofe (lone, which rattles 
when it .is ffiaken ; and every foffil, with a nucleus in it, 
has obtained this name. The analogy between a hone, 
thus containing another within it, or, as the fanciful wri¬ 
ters exprefs it, pregnant w ith another, and a woman big 
■with child, led people to imagine that it muff have great 
virtues and etfeCts in accelerating or retarding delivery ; 
fo that, if tied to the arm of a woman with child, it pre¬ 
vents abortion ; and if to the leg, it promotes delivery. 
On fuch idle and imaginary virtues was raifed all the cre¬ 
dit which this famous foil'll poffe fifed for many ages. Hill. 
-See the articles TEtites and Mineralogy. 
EA'GLE-WINGED, qdj. With the wings of an eagle : 
At his right hand Victory 
Sat eagle-wing'd. Milton. 
EA'GLE-WOOD, f. See Egle. 
EA'GLES, a town of the American States, in North 
Carolina, on the weft fide of the river Clarendon, or 
Cape Fear, oppofite Wilmington. 
EA'GLET,^. A young eagle.—This treafon of his 
fons did the king exprefs in an emblem, wherein was an 
eagle with three eaglets tyring on herbreaft, and the fourth 
pecking at one of her eyes. Davies. 
EA'GRE, f. larger, in Runic, is the ocean : eggia, in 
Ifiandic, is to agitate, to incite.] A tide fwelling above 
another tide, obfervable in the river Severn : 
For as an eagre rides in triumph o’er the tide, 
The tyrant paffions hope and fear, 
Did in extremes appear, 
And flafh’d upon the foul with equal force. Dryden. 
EAK,/. \_oGfolcte pfrom the Sax. aeak. ] Eternity. Scott. 
EAL'DERMAN, f. [ealbejiman, Sax.] Thenameof 
a Saxon magillrate ; alderman.— Ealderman among the 
Saxons was as much as earl among the Danes. Termes de la 
Ley. 
EAL'HORDA, y. [from the Sax. ] The privilege of 
aflizing and felling beer. Scott. Obfolete. 
EAME, J. [earn, Sax. com, Dut.] Uncle; a provincial 
word, ftill ufed in fome parts of Staffordftiire. 
Daughter, fays (lie, fly, fly; behold thy dame 
Forelhews tlije treafon of the wretched camel Fairfax. 
To EAN, v. n. now fpelt Yean ; [from eanian, Sax.] 
To lamb : 
He ftuck them up before the fulfome ewes, 
Who, then conceiving, did in eaning time, 
Fall party-colour’d lambs. Shakcfpcare. 
EAN'LING,y. A lamb juft dropped : 
That all the eanlings, that were ftreak’d and py’d, 
ShouldTall as Jacob’s hire. Shakefpeare. 
EAOO'WE, orEooA, or Middelburg, one of the 
Friendly iflands, in the South Pacific Ocean, which 
abounds with groves of fruit, and othertrees, imerfperfed 
with traCls covered with grafs. It wasfirft dilcovered by 
Tafman, who called it Middleburg. Lat.21.24. S. Ion- 
174. 30. W. Greenwich. 
EAR, /, [eajrc, Sax. oor, Dut.] The organ of hear¬ 
ing. See Anatom y, vol. i. p. 601, 2.—His ears are open 
unto their cry. PJalmxxx iv. 13. 
What fire is in my ears? Can this be true ? 
Stand 1 condemn’d! Shakcfpcare. 
e a n 
That part of the ear that (hinds prominent.-—His mafrgT 
Thall bore his ear through with an awl. Exodus. —Power 
of judging of harmony ; fenfe of difcriminating the notes 
in mufic.—She has a delicate ear, and her voice is mafic. 
Richardfon. —The head ; or the perfon : in familiar lan¬ 
guage.— Better pafs over an affront from one fcoundrel, 
than draw the whole herd about a man’s cars. L'EJlrange. 
—The higheft part of a man; the top—A cavalier was 
up to the ears in love with a very fine lady. L’Eflrange. —. 
The privilege of being readily and kindly heard; favour. 
—Ariftipptts was earned: fuitor to Dionyfius forfome grant, 
who would give no ear to his fuit. Bacon. 
They being told there was fmall hope of eafe, 
Were willing at the firft to give an ear 
To any thing that founded liberty. Ben Jonfon. 
Difpofition to like or diflike what is heard ; judgment; 
opinion; tafte.—He laid his fenfe clofer, and in fewer 
words, according to the ftyle and car of thofe times. Den¬ 
ham. —Any prominences from a larger body, raifed for the 
fake of holding it.—There are fome veftels, which, if 
you offer to lift by the belly or bottom, you cannot ftir 
them: but are foon removed, if you fake them by the 
ears. Taylor. —The fpike of corn ; that part which con¬ 
tains the feeds.—From feveral grains lie had eighty 
ftalks, witl) very large ears, full of large corn. Mortimer. 
The leaves on trees not more, 
Nor bearded earsjn fields, nor lands upon the fhore. 
Dryden. 
To be by the Ears ; or, to fall together by the Ears. To 
fight ; to fcuffie ; to quarrel. In Dutch oorlogen. A fa¬ 
miliar phrafe.—Fools go together by the cars , to have knaves 
run away with the flakes-. V Ef range. 
All Afia now was by the ears, 
And gods beat up for volunteers. Prior. 
To fet by the Ears. To make ftrife ; to quarrel; low 
language. —She ufed to carry tales from one to another, 
’till fhe had fet the- neighbourhood together by the ears. 
Arbuthnot. 
Lofs of one ear is a punifitment enabled by 5 and 6 
Edw. VI. c.4. for fighting in a church-yard ; and by 2 
and 3 Edw. VI. c. 15. for combinations to raife the price 
of provifions, labour, &c. if it be the third offence, be- 
fide pillory, and perpetual infamy, ora fine of 40I. 
To EAR, v. a. [aro , Lat.] To plough ; to till. Obfo. 
lete .—A rough valley, which is neither eared nor fown, 
Deuteronomy. —Five years, in the which there fttall neither 
be earing nor harveft. Gen. xiv. 6.—The field of love, 
with plough of virtue ear'd. Fairfax. 
To EAR, v. n. To (hoot into ears. 
“ Wide Ears and a ffiort tongue.”—The Latins fay : 
Audi multa, loquere tempejliva. The Germans fay : More 
allca, lerne vie/, Jage wenig: Hear all, learn much, and fpeak 
little. To hear, fee, and fay little, are evident marks of 
prudence, fagacity, and good fenfe; which it is the in- 
tent of this proverb to inculcate. 
“In at one Ear and out at the other.” In Italian, 
Dcntro da un orecchia & fuore dall' altra. The Italians fay 
likewife: Havere orecchie diniercante: 'Fo have a merchant’s 
or tradefman’s ears. This is either fpoken of thofe care- 
lefs and inattentive perfons, who in receiving admoni. 
tions, orders, or inftniCtions, are too apt to forget or dis¬ 
regard them ; or, it is a letfon to perfons in trade, not to 
notice the faults and reflections caft upon them by petu¬ 
lant cuftomers, who are looneft overcome by civility and 
attention. 
EAR-ACH, f. A pain in tire ear. 
EAR-KISSING, adj. Heard in a whifper.—You have 
heard of the news abroad ; I mean (he whifpered ones j 
for they are yet but car-ki/fing arguments. Shakcfpcare. 
EAR-PICK, J. an inftrument of ivory, lilver, or gold, 
fomewhat in form of a probe, for cleanfing the ear. Sir 
Hans Sloane obferves,. that the ufe of this inftrument 
mull be very prejudicial to fo delicate an organ, by bring¬ 
ing too great a flow of humours into it. 
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