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To make way by corroSion.—A prince's court eats too 
much into the income of a poor (late. Addifon on Italy. 
“ Eat at pleafure, drink by meafure.”—Th.e French 
fay : Pain tant qu'il dure, (bread as long as it lads,) vin a 
mefure-, and fo likewife the Italians : Pan mcntre dura, ma 
vin a infura. The intent of this proverb is to (hew that 
excefs in eating is not fo prejudicial as in drinking : it 
doth not deprive a man of Iris understanding, nor fo nearly 
affimilate him with the beuSts of the .field; yet the con- 
fequences of an overloaded Stomach are often as fatal in 
the end. 
EATABLE, adj. That may be eaten. 
EA'TABLE, J. Any thing that may be eaten : 
If you all forts of perfcns would engage, 
Suit well your eatables to ev’ry age. King's Cookery. 
EA'TER, J. One that eats any thing.—The Caribees 
and the Cannibals, almoSt all, are eaters of man’s flefli. 
Abbot. —If the tafte of this fruit maketh the eaters like 
gods, why remained than a bead ? Brown. —A corrofive. 
EAT H, adj. [ea^, Saxon.] Eafy; not difficult. An 
old word.—-Where eafe abounds, it’s eatk to do amifs. 
Spenjcr. 
What works not beauty, man’s relenting mind 
Is eatk to move’with plaints and fliews of woe. Fairfax. 
EATH, adv. Eafily: 
Who hath the world not try’d, 
From the right way full eatk may wander wide. Hubb. Tale. 
EAT'INGHOUSE, f . A houfe where provisions are 
fold ready drelfed.—An hungry traveller dept into an 
eatingkoufe for his dinner. IdEJfrange. 
EATON, a town of the American States, in the north¬ 
ern part of Stafford county, New Hampshire ; three miles 
north of the great Ofiipee lake, and about fifty-fix north 
by wed of Portsmouth. Incorporated in 1766. 
EA'TONTOWN, improperly called Edentown , plea- 
fantly Situated in New Jerfey, belonging to the American 
States, about a mile South of Shrewsbury, in the fame 
townfhip. It is a place of bulineSs, and thriving. 
EAVES, f . [epej~e, Saxon.] The edges of the roof 
which overhang the houfe.—The ificles hang down from 
the caves of houfes. Woodward. 
Uflier’d with a fliower dill, 
When the gud has blown his fill, 
Ending on the rudling leaves, 
With minute drops from off' the eaves. Milton. 
EAVES-CATCH, or Eaves-lath, f . A thick board, 
with a featheredge to receive the lower courfe of tiles on 
the roof of a houfe. 
To EAVES-DROP, v. a. To catch what comes from 
the eaves; in common phrafe, to liden under windows. 
E AVES-DROPPERS,/". perfons who liden underwalls 
or windows, or the eaves of a houle, to hearken after dif- 
courfe, and thereupon to frame fianderous and mifehievous 
tales. In the eye of law fuch perfons are a common nui- 
fance, and prelentable at the court-leet: or are indictable 
at the fetlions, and punishable by fine, and finding fureties 
for good behaviour. 4 Comm. 169. 
EAU DE LUCE. See Pharmacy. 
EAUZE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Gers, and chief place of a canton, in the diftridt of Con¬ 
dom : a celebrated city in the time of the Romans, after 
whom it came into the poffedion of the Goths, with the 
whole province of Gafcony, and from them it was taken 
by Clovis. It was dedroyed by the Normans in.their,in- 
curfions, in the reign of Louis the Debonnaire : four 
leaguesandahalfwed-fouth-wedofCondorh. Lat.43.52. 
N. Ion. 17.45. E. Ferro. 
EBAL, [Heb. a heap.] A mountain of Paledine, Si¬ 
tuated in Samaria, near the plain of Moreh. Dent. xi. 29. 
EBAU'LER, a town of Arabia Deferta : 130 miles 
fouth of Ana. 
EBB,/i [ebba, epplob, Saxon; elbe, Dutch.] The 
reflux of the tide towards the fea: oppoled to Jlow; 
E B E 
Hither the feas at dated times refort, 
And fliove the loaden vedels into port; 
Then with a gentle ebb re ire again, 
And render back their cargo to the main. Addifon. 
Decline ; decay ; wade.—This tide of man’s life, after 
it once turneth and declineth, ever runneth with a perpe¬ 
tual eWand falling dream, but never flowethagain. Raleigh. 
Thus all the treafure of our flowing years. 
Our ebb of life for ever takes away. Rofcommon. 
F,bb, in figurative language, is ufed to fignify the 
lowed pitch of fortune or condition in the world ; decay ; 
wade.—You have brought all things to that low ebb . 
Spenfer. 
“ Every flow has its Ebb.” By this proverb the vicif- 
fitudes of fortune are aptly compared to floods and ebbs 
(ups and downs), according to the Latin proverb ; Vtries 
funt fortunes vices . 
Fo EBB, v . n. To run back towards the fea : oppofed 
to flow : 
From thence the tide of fortune left their fliore, 
And ebb'd much fader than it flow'd before. 
To decline ; to decay ; to wade : 
But oh, he ebbs ! the fmiling waves decay; 
For ever lovely dream, for ever day ! 
EBDO'MARY,y; \_ ebd07nadarlus , Laf.] An officer, anci¬ 
ently appointed weekly in cathedral churches, to Super- 
vife the regular performance of divine - fervice, and pre- 
feribe the particular duties of each perfon attending in 
the choir, as to reading, finging, praying, &c. To which 
purpofe the ebdomadary at the beginning of his week 
drew in form a bill or writing of the refpeefive perfons 
and their feveral offices, called tabula -, whereupon the 
perfons there entered were diled intabulati . This is mani- 
fefted in the Statutes of the Cathedral Chur ch of St. Paul, 
London, digeded by Dr. Ralph Baluock, dean of St. 
Paul’s, anno 1295, MSS. 
EB'DOME, a fedival in honour of Apollo, at Athens, 
on the Seventh day of every lunar month. It was ufual 
to Sing hymns in honour of the god, and to carry about 
boughs of laurel.—There was alio another of the Same 
name celebrated by private families the Seventh day after 
the birth of every child. 
E'BED, [Heb. a fervant.] A man’s name. 
EBEDME'LECH, [Heb. the lervant of the king.] A 
man’s name. 
EBEL'LEBEN, a town of Germany, in the circle of 
Upper Saxony*, and county of Sclnvartzburg : a fief of 
the elector of Saxony, Situated on the Elbe : twenty miles 
north-wedof Erfiirt,;uidelevennorth-eadof Muhlhaufen. 
E'BELSTOT, or Ebeltoft, a town of Denmark, in 
J utland, and dioceie of Aarhuus: fifteen miles ead-north- 
ead of Aarhuus. 
E'BENDORF, a town of Germany, in the archduchy 
of Auftria : nine miles wed of Ziderldorf. 
EBENE'ZER, [Heb. a done of help.] A man’s name. 
EBENE'ZER, the name of a monument eredled by the 
prophet Samuel, between Mizpeh and Shen, to comme¬ 
morate a vidtory gained by the Iiraelites over the Philif- 
tines, near which alfo the Ifraelites encamped, previous 
to the battle fought between them and the Philidines, in 
which the Ifraelites were vanquished, and th.e ark of God 
taken, x Sam. iv. 1. v. 1. and vii. 12. 
EBENE'ZER, a pod-town of the American States, 
and the capital of Effingham county, Georgia, feated on 
the fouth-wed bank of Savannah river; five miles from 
Abercorn, twenty-five north-north-wed of Savannah, fe- 
venty-five fouth-eaSi of Louifville, and 860 fouth-wed of 
Philadelphia. It was fettled in 1735, by a number of 
protedants driven out of Saltzburg, in the electorate of 
Bavaria, by perfecution. 
E'BENFELD, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Carniola : three miles fouth of Stein. 
E'BENFURTH, a town of Germany, in the.archduchy 
of 
Dryden. 
Halifax. 
