| eat | 1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. "To eat grass as oxen." "They . . . Ate the sacrifices of the dead." (Ps. Cvi. 28) "The lean . . . Did eat up the first seven fat kine." (Gen. Xli. 20) "The lion had not eaten the carcass." (1 Kings xiii. 28) "With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab junkets eat." (Milton) "The island princes overbold Have eat our substance." (Tennyson) "His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages." (Thackeray) 2. To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear. To eat humble pie. See Humble. To eat of . "Eat of the bread that can not waste." . To eat one's words, to retract what one has said. (See the Citation under Blurt) To eat out, to consume completely. "Eat out the heart and comfort of it." . To eat the wind out of a vessel, to gain slowly to windward of her. Synonym: To consume, devour, gnaw, corrode. Origin: OE. Eten, AS. Etan; akin to OS. Etan, OFries. Eta, D. Eten, OHG. Ezzan, G. Essen, Icel. Eta, Sw. Ata, Dan. Aede, Goth. Itan, Ir. & Gael. Ith, W. Ysu, L. Edere, Gr, Skr. Ad. Cf. Etch, Fret to rub, Edible. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| eating | 1. The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding. 2. Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating. Eating house, a house where cooked provisions are sold, to be eaten on the premises. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| eating disorders | A group of disorders characterised by physiological and psychological disturbances in appetite or food intake. (12 Dec 1998) |
| eating epilepsy | Epileptic, often generalised, seizures provoked by eating; a type of reflex epilepsy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Eaton agent | A small atypical form of bacteria, intermediate in size between typical bacteria and viruses. Thought to play a significant role in pneumonia and bronchitis. Mycoplasmal respiratory infections are common in children and young adults. Common symptoms include malaise, fever, chills and a dry hacking cough. (27 Sep 1997) |
| Eaton agent pneumonia | An acute systemic disease with involvement of the lungs, caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae and marked by high fever, cough, relatively few physical signs, and scattered densities on X-rays; usually associated with development of cold agglutinins and antibodies to the bacteria. Synonym: atypical pneumonia, Eaton agent pneumonia, mycoplasmal pneumonia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Eaton, Lee | <person> U.S. Neurologist, 1905-1958. See: Eaton-Lambert syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Eaton, Monroe | <person> U.S. Microbiologist, *1904. See: Eaton agent, Eaton agent pneumonia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| eaton-lambert syndrome | <radiology> Myasthenia, bronchial carcinoma, often small cell carcinoma (12 Dec 1998) |