| easy | 1. at ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint; as: Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy. Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind. Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style. "The easy vigor of a line." 2. Not causing, or attended with, pain or disquiet, or much exertion; affording ease or rest; as, an easy carriage; a ship having an easy motion; easy movements, as in dancing. "Easy ways to die." 3. Not difficult; requiring little labour or effort; slight; inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory. "It were an easy leap." (Shak) 4. Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labour; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion. 5. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready. "He gained their easy hearts." (Dryden) "He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch." (Sir W. Scott) 6. Moderate; sparing; frugal. 7. Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; opposed to tight. Honors are easy, said when each side has an equal number of honors, in which case they are not counted as points. Synonym: Quiet, comfortable, manageable, tranquil, calm, facile, unconcerned. Origin: OF. Aisie, F. Aise, prop. P. P. Of OF. Aisier. See Ease. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| 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) |
| 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) |
| eaves | 1. The edges or lower borders of the roof of a building, which overhang the walls, and cast off the water that falls on the roof. 2. Brow; ridge. "Eaves of the hill." 3. Eyelids or eyelashes. "And closing eaves of wearied eyes. <medicine>" (Tennyson) Eaves board . The cliff swallow; so called from its habit of building retort-shaped nests of mud under the eaves of buildings. See Cliff swallow. The European swallow. Origin: OE. Evese, pl. Eveses, AS. Efese eaves, brim, brink; akin to OHG. Obisa, opasa, porch, hall, MHG. Obse eaves, Icel. Ups, Goth. Ubizwa porch; cf. Icel. Upsar-dropi, OSw. Opsa-drup water dropping from the eaves. Probably from the root of E. Over. The s of eaves is in English regarded as a plural ending, though not so in Saxon. See Over, and cf. Eavesdrop. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| EB virus | <virology> Species of Herpetoviridae that is responsible for infectious mononucleosis (glandular fever). Discovered in 1964, this virus has been associated with Burkitt's lymphoma in South African children and with nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Asian populations. (27 Sep 1997) |
| ebb | Falling stage or outward flow, especially of tides. (09 Oct 1997) |
| Ebbinghaus test | A psychological test in which the patient is asked to complete certain sentences from which several words have been left out. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Ebbinghaus, Hermann | <person> German, 1850-1909. See: Ebbinghaus test. (05 Mar 2000) |