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computation ; and on the contrary, the full moon of the 
3zd of March may be allowed for pafchal, which it is not. 
Scaliger and Calviftus have alfo pointed out other inac¬ 
curacies in this calendar. An excellent paper on this 
fubjedt by the earl of Macclesfield, may be feen in the 
Philof. Tranf. vol. 40, p.417. 
EAS'TER-ISLAND, an illand in the South Pacific 
Ocean, about thirty miles in circumference ; without 
wood or frefit water as far as is yet known. It is noticed 
by captain Cook, who defcribes it as extremely barren, 
and peopled with meagre favages in a ftate of nature, and 
quite naked, except their chiefs. They appeared to won- 
ftiip the fun, and proftrated themfelves before two im- 
menfe ftones, one of which was flat, and the other erect, 
about ten feet high, and feven fathoms round ; with a 
figure of a man’s head carved at the top, and a garland, 
of mofaic or inlaid work, not ill performed. They called 
one (tone Dago, and the other Taurico. Lat. 19. 20. S. 
Ion. 114. 49. W. Greenwich. 
E AS'TER-OFFERINGS, f. Money prefented to the 
parilh-priefi at Eafter. 
E AS'TERLING, f, A native of fome country eaft- 
ward to another: in the Englifti hiftory, fpoken of peo¬ 
ple from the fliores of the Baltic : 
He oft in battle vanquifhed 
Tlfofe fpoilful, rich, and fwarming, Eajlcrlmgs. Spenfer. 
EAS'TERLING, adj. Belonging to the money of the 
eafterlings, fterling. 
E AS'TERLY, adj. Coming from the parts toward the 
eaft.—When the eajlerly -winds or breezes are kept off by 
fome high mountains from the vallies, whereby’the air, 
wanting motion, doth beeomeexceeding unhealthful. Ra¬ 
leigh. —Lying towards the eaft.—Thefe give us a view of 
the molt eajlerly, foutherly, and wefterly, parts of England, 
j Graunt. —Looking towards the eaft.—Water he chufes 
clear, light, without tafte or fmell, drawn from fprings 
with an eajlerly expolition. Arbuthnot. 
EAS'TERN, adj. Dwelling or found?in the eaft; ori¬ 
ental.—Like eajlern kings a lazy ftate they keep. Pope. 
Eajlern tyrants from the light of heaven 
Seclude their bofont Haves. Thomfdn. 
Lying or being towards the eaft.—The eajlern end of the 
ifle rifes up in precipices. Addifon. —Going towards the 
eaft. Looking towards the eaft : 
The angel.caught 
Our ling’ring parents, and to th’ eajlern gate 
Led them direct. Milton. 
EAS'TON, a poll town of the American States in 
Pennfylvania, and capital of Northampton county, plea- 
fiantly fituated at the mouth of the Lehigh; and on the 
weft fide of Delaware river. It is regularly laid out, 
•and contains a court-houfe, regifter’s office, and an aca¬ 
demy : twelve mile's north-eaft of Bethlehem, and feventy 
north of Philadelphia. 
EAS'TON, the chief town of the American States, in 
'Talbot county, Maryland, formerly called Talbot Court- 
houfe, on the eaft fide of Chefapeak bay, near the forks 
of Treadhaven river, twelve miles from its junction with 
Choptank river. It has a handfome court-houfe, and 
market-houle ; .and feveral ftoresMor the fupply of the 
adjacent country : five miles fouth-wefterly of Williamf- 
burg, thirty-feven Couth of Chefter Town, and 118 fouth- 
weft of Philadelphia. 
EAS'TON, a townftiip of-’the American States, in 
Wafhington county, New York. In 1790 it contained 
2539 inhabitants ; and by the ftate eenfus of 1796, it ap¬ 
pears that 347 of its inhabitants are electors. 
EAS'TON, a townftiip of the American States, ims. 
portant for its iron manufadtures, fituated in Briftol 
county, Maftachufetts, near the head of Raynhatn river; 
fix miles north-weft of Raynham, and twelve weft of 
Bridgewater. I: contains 3466 inhabitants.- The beft. 
mill-faws in the ftate are made here. The art of maki 
ing fteel was introduced here by captain Eliphalet Leo-- 
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nard, in 1786. It is made in quantities; and is cheaper 
than imported fteel, and equal in quality for large work, 
fuch as plough-fhares, horfe-ftioes, &c. which require 
large quantities of hard fteel. But for edge tools it is 
found to be of inferior quality to what is imported. The 
manufacture of linfeed oil began here in 1792, and from 
an annual ftock of three thoufand bufliels of feed, there 
has been annually produced near five thoufand gallons of 
oil. 
E ASTONNE'SS, the mod eafterly cape on the coaft of 
Suffolk, and the north point of Soutlnvold Bay. 
EAST'WARD, adv. Towards the eaft.—The moon, 
which performs its motions fwifter than the fun, gets 
cajlward out of his rays, and appears when the fun is let. 
Brown. 
EA'SY, adj. Not difficult.—The fervice of God, in 
the folemn affembly of faints, is a work, though eajy, yet 
withal very weighty, and of great refpeCt. Hooker. —Not 
cauling difficulty.—-The whole ifiand was cut into feveral 
eafy afeents, and planted with variety of palaces. AddiJ'oiu 
—Quiet ; at reft ; not harafted ; unmolefted ; fecure ; 
not anxious.—A-marriage of love is pleafant, a marriage 
of intereft eajy, and a marriage where both meet happy. 
Addifon. —A man ftiould direft all his (Indies and endea¬ 
vours at making himfelf eaj'y now, and happy hereafter. 
SpeBator.— We plainly feel whether at this inftant we are 
eafy or uneafy, happy or miferable. Smalridge. —Free 
from pain : 
Pleafure has been the bus’nefs of my life. 
And every change of fortune eafy to me, 
Becaufe 1 ftill was eajy to myfelf. Dryden. 
Complying; unrefifting ; credulous: 
The kindeft father I have ever found him, 
Eafy and good, and bounteous to my wifhes. Addifon . 
Ready; not unwilling : 
Pity and he are one ; 
So merciful a king did never live, 
Loth to revenge, and eafy to forgive. Dryden. 
Free from want of more.—They ftiould be-tdlowed each 
of-them fuch a rent as would make them eafy. Euift. — 
Not conftrained ; not (tiff: 
Praife the eajy vigour of a line, 
Where jDenham’s ftrength and Waller’s fweetnefs join. 
Pope. 
To EAT, v. a. preterite ate , or eat ; part; eat, or eaten. 
[ecan, Saxon; iidn, Gothic; etch, Erie.] To devour 
with the mouth.—Locufts (hall eat the refidue ot that 
which is efcaped from the hail, and (hall eat every tree 
which groweth. Exod.x. 5.—To confiime ; to corrode. 
They entail a fecret curfe upon their eftates, which does 
either infenlibly wafte and confume it, or eat out the heart 
and comfort of it. Tillotjon. —To fwallow back ; to re¬ 
train. This is only ufed of a man’s word.—They cannot 
hold, but burft out thole-words, which afterwards they 
are forced to eat. Hakewill. 
Credit were not to be loft 
B’ a brave knight errant of the poll, 
That eats, perfidioully, his word, 
And fwears his ears through a two-inch board. Hudibras. 
To EAT, v:n. To go to meals; to take meals; to 
feed.—-And when the Tcribes and pharifees faw him eat 
with publicans and linners, they faid unto his difciples, 
How is it that he eateth with publicans and finners ? 
Matt. ii. 16.—To take food.—-He-that will not eat till he 
has demonftration that it will nourifti him ; he that will 
not (lir till he infallibly knows the bulinefs lie goes about 
will fucceed, will have little elfe to do but lit ftill and 
perifh. Locke. —To be maintained in food.—The righteous 
eateth to the fatisfying. of his foul,, but -the belly of the 
wicked fliall want. Prov. xiii. 25. 
But, thanks to my indulgent flars, I cat. 
Since I have found the feeret to be great. 
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