| ear-piercer | <zoology> The earwig. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| ear-shell | <zoology> A flattened marine univalve shell of the genus Haliotis. Synonym: sea-ear. See Abalone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| earache | Pain in the ear. (12 Dec 1998) |
| earcockle | <botany> A disease in wheat, in which the blackened and contracted grain, or ear, is filled with minute worms. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| eardrop | 1. A pendant for the ear; an earring; as, a pair of eardrops. 2. <botany> A species of primrose. See Auricula. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| eardrum | <anatomy> The tympanum. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| eared | 1. Having (such or so many) ears; used in composition; as, long-eared-eared; sharp-eared; full-eared; ten-eared. 2. <zoology> Having external ears; having tufts of feathers resembling ears. <zoology> Eared owl, any seal of the family Otariidae, including the fur seals and hair seals. See Seal. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| earl | A nobleman of England ranking below a marquis, and above a viscount. The rank of an earl corresponds to that of a count (comte) in France, and graf in Germany. Hence the wife of an earl is still called countess. See Count. Origin: OE. Eorl, erl, AS. Eorl man, noble; akin to OS. Erl boy, man, Icel. Jarl nobleman, count, and possibly to Gr. Male, Zend arshan man. Cf. Jarl. <zoology> The needlefish. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| earlduck | <zoology> The red-breasted merganser (Merganser serrator). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Earle L fibrosarcoma | <tumour> A transplantable fibrosarcoma derived from subcutaneous tissue of a mouse of C3H strain, grown in tissue culture to which 20-methylcholanthrene had been added. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Earle's solution | A tissue culture medium containing CaCl2, MgSO4, KCl, NaHCO3, NaCl, NaH2PO4-H2O, and glucose. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Earle, Wilton | <person> U.S. Pathologist, 1902-1962. See: Earle L fibrosarcoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| early | 1. In advance of the usual or appointed time; in good season; prior in time; among or near the first; opposed to late; as, the early bird; an early spring; early fruit. "Early and provident fear is the mother of safety." (Burke) "The doorsteps and threshold with the early grass springing up about them." (Hawthorne) 2. Coming in the first part of a period of time, or among the first of successive acts, events, etc. "Seen in life's early morning sky." (Keble) "The forms of its earlier manhood." (Longfellow) "The earliest poem he composed was in his seventeenth summer." (J. C. <philosophy> Shairp) Early English See the Note under English. Early English architecture, the first of the pointed or Gothic styles used in England, succeeding the Norman style in the 12th and 13th centuries. Synonym: Forward, timely, not late, seasonable. Origin: OE. Earlich. See Early. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| early ambulation | Procedure characterised by a shorter period of hospitalization or recumbency or by more rapid mobilization than is normally practiced. (12 Dec 1998) |
| early deceleration | Slowing of the foetal heart rate early in the uterine contraction phase, denoting compression of the foetal head. (05 Mar 2000) |