eastern gray squirrel
1: common medium-large squirrel of eastern North America; now introduced into England [syn: {cat squirrel}, {Sciurus carolinensis}]
eastern ground snake
1: in some classifications placed in genus Haldea; small reddish-gray snake of eastern North America [syn: {Potamophis striatula}, {Haldea striatula}]
eastern hemisphere
1: the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia [syn: {orient}]
eastern hemlock
1: common forest tree of the eastern United States and Canada; used especially for pulpwood [syn: {Canadian hemlock}, {spruce pine}, {Tsuga canadensis}]
Eastern Highlands
1: a mountain range running along the eastern coast of Australia [syn: {Great Dividing Range}]
Eastern hop hornbeam
1: medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America [syn: {ironwood}, {ironwood tree}, {Ostrya virginiana}]
eastern kingbird
1: a kingbird that breeds in North American and winters in tropical America; distinguished by a white band on the tip of the tail
Eastern Orthodox
1: of or relating to or characteristic of the Eastern Orthodox Church [syn: {Orthodox}, {Russian Orthodox}, {Greek Orthodox}] n : derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites [syn...
Eastern Orthodox Church
1: derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites [syn: {Orthodox Church}, {Orthodox Catholic Church}, {Eastern Church}, {Eastern Orthodox}]
Eastern pasque flower
1: short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers; North America and Siberia [syn: {American pasqueflower}, {wild crocus}, {lion's beard}, {prairie anemone}, {blue tulip}, {Ameri...
eastern pipistrel
1: one of the smallest bats of eastern North America [syn: {Pipistrellus subflavus}]
eastern poison oak
1: poisonous shrub of southeastern United States causing a rash on contact [syn: {Toxicodendron quercifolium}, {Rhus quercifolia}, {Rhus toxicodenedron}]
eastern red cedar
1: small juniper found east of Rocky Mountains having a conic crown, brown bark that peels in shreds, and small sharp needles [syn: {red cedar}, {red juniper}, {Juniperus virginiana}]
Eastern Roman Empire
1: a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395 [syn: {Byzantine Empire}, {Byzantium}]
Eastern Samoa
1: a United States territory on the eastern part of the island of Samoa [syn: {American Samoa}, {AS}]
Eastern Sioux
1: a member of the eastern branch of the Sioux [syn: {Santee}, {Santee Sioux}, {Santee Dakota}]
eastern spruce
1: medium-sized spruce of eastern North America; chief lumber spruce of the area; source of pulpwood [syn: {red spruce}, {yellow spruce}, {Picea rubens}]
Eastern Standard Time
1: standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United States [syn: {Eastern Time}, {EST}]
Eastern Time
1: standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United States [syn: {Eastern Standard Time}, {EST}]
Eastern Turki
1: a Turkic literary language of medieval central Asia (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan) [syn: {Chagatai}, {Jagatai}, {Jaghatai}]
eastern United States
1: the region of the United States lying north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River [syn: {East}]
eastern white pine
1: tall-growing pine of eastern North America; bark is brown with longitudinal fissures when mature; valued as a timber tree [syn: {American white pine}, {weymouth pine}, {Pinus strobus}]
eastern woodrat
1: large grayish-brown wood rat of the southeastern United States [syn: {Neotoma floridana}]
easterner
1: an inhabitant of an eastern area; especially of the U.S.
Eastman
1: United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854...
eastmost
1: farthest to the east [syn: {easternmost}]
eastside
1: of the eastern part of a city e.g. Manhattan; "the eastside silk-stocking district"
eastward
1: moving toward the east; "eastbound trains" [syn: {eastbound}] adv : toward the east; "they migrated eastward to Sweden" [syn: {eastwards}]
eastwards
1: toward the east; "they migrated eastward to Sweden" [syn: {eastward}]
easy
1: posing no difficulty; requiring little effort; "an easy job"; "an easy problem"; "an easy victory"; "the house is easy to heat"; "satisfied with easy answers"; "took the easy way out of his dilemma...
easy chair
1: a comfortable upholstered armchair [syn: {lounge chair}, {overstuffed chair}]
easy going
1: easy unobstructed progress; "after we solved that problem the rest was plain sailing" [syn: {plain sailing}, {clear sailing}]
easy lay
1: street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate [syn: {soap}, {scoop}, {max}, {liquid ecstasy}, {grievous bodily harm}, {goop}, {Georgia home boy}]
easy mark
1: a defenseless victim [syn: {sitting duck}]
easy money
1: income obtained with a minimum of effort [syn: {gravy train}] 2: the economic condition in which credit is easy to secure [ant: {tight money}]
easygoing
1: inclined to be excessively tolerant 2: unhurried and relaxed; "an easygoing pace"; "a mellow conversation" [syn: {laid-back}, {mellow}] 3: not hurried or forced; "an easy walk around the block"; "a...
eat
1: take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" 2: eat a meal; take a meal; "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't...
eat at
1: become ground down or deteriorate; "Her confidence eroded" [syn: {erode}, {gnaw}, {gnaw at}, {wear away}]
eat away
1: remove soil or rock; "Rain eroded the terraces" [syn: {erode}, {fret}] 2: wear away or erode [syn: {fret}]
eat in
1: eat at home [syn: {dine in}] [ant: {eat out}]
eat into
1: gnaw into; make resentful or angry; "The unjustice rankled her"; "his resentment festered" [syn: {fret}, {rankle}, {grate}]
eat on
1: worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating you?" [syn: {eat}]
eat out
1: eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home [syn: {dine out}] [ant: {eat in}]
eat up
1: finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes" [syn: {finish}, {polish off}] 2: use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of ga...
eatable
1: suitable for use as food [syn: {edible}, {comestible}] [ant: {inedible}] n : any substance that can be used as food [syn: {comestible}, {edible}, {pabulum}, {victual}, {victuals}]
eatage
1: animal food for browsing or grazing [syn: {forage}, {pasture}, {pasturage}, {grass}]
eaten up
1: destroyed or wasted as if by eating; "forests devoured by flame"; "an inheritance eaten up by debt" [syn: {devoured}, {eaten up(p)}]
eater
1: someone who consumes food for nourishment [syn: {feeder}] 2: any green goods that are good to eat; "these apples are good eaters"
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eating
1: the act of consuming food [syn: {feeding}]
eating apple
1: an apple used primarily for eating raw without cooking [syn: {dessert apple}] [ant: {cooking apple}]
eating away
1: (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it) [syn: {erosion}, {eroding}, {wearing}, {wearing away}]
eating house
1: a building where people go to eat [syn: {restaurant}, {eating place}]
eating place
1: a building where people go to eat [syn: {restaurant}, {eating house}]
eating utensil
1: tableware implements for cutting and eating food [syn: {cutlery}]
Eaton-Lambert syndrome
1: a disease seen in patients with lung cancer and characterized by weakness and fatigue of hip and thigh muscles and an aching back; caused by antibodies directed against the neuromuscular junctions ...
eats
1: informal terms for a meal [syn: {chow}, {chuck}, {grub}]
eau de cologne
1: a perfumed liquid made of essential oils and alcohol [syn: {cologne}, {cologne water}]
eau de cologne mint
1: mint with leaves having perfume like that of the bergamot orange [syn: {bergamot mint}, {lemon mint}, {Mentha citrata}]
eau de Javelle
1: an aqueous solution of sodium hypochlorite [syn: {Javelle water}, {Javel water}]
eau de toilette
1: a perfumed liquid lighter than cologne [syn: {toilet water}]
eaves
1: the overhang at the lower edge of a roof
eavesdrop
1: listen without the speaker's knowledge; "the jealous man was eavesdropping on his wife's conversations" [syn: {listen in}] [also: {eavesdropping}, {eavesdropped}]
ebb
1: a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) [syn: {ebbing}, {wane}] 2: the outward flow of the tide [syn: {reflux}] v 1: flow back or recede; "the tides ebbed at noon" [syn: {ebb awa...
ebb away
1: flow back or recede; "the tides ebbed at noon" [syn: {ebb}, {ebb down}, {ebb out}, {ebb off}] [ant: {tide}]
ebb down
1: flow back or recede; "the tides ebbed at noon" [syn: {ebb}, {ebb away}, {ebb out}, {ebb off}] [ant: {tide}]
ebb off
1: flow back or recede; "the tides ebbed at noon" [syn: {ebb}, {ebb away}, {ebb down}, {ebb out}] [ant: {tide}]
ebb out
1: flow back or recede; "the tides ebbed at noon" [syn: {ebb}, {ebb away}, {ebb down}, {ebb off}] [ant: {tide}]
ebbing
1: a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) [syn: {ebb}, {wane}]
ebbtide
1: the tide while water is flowing out [ant: {flood tide}]
Ebenaceae
1: fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon [syn: {family Ebenaceae}, {ebony family}]
Ebenales
1: trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae [syn: {order Ebenales}]
Ebionite
1: of or relating to the Ebionites or their religion n : a member of a group of Jews who (during the early history of the Christian Church) accepted Jesus as the Messiah; they accepted the Gospel Acco...
EBITDA
1: income before interest and taxes and depreciation and amortization have been subtracted; an indicator of a company's profitability that is watched by investors (especially in leveraged buyouts) [sy...
eblis
1: (Islam) the principal evil jinni in Islamic mythology
EbN
1: the compass point that is one point north of due east [syn: {east by north}]
Ebola
1: a severe and often fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees) caused by the Ebola virus; characterized by high fever and severe internal bleeding; can be spread from pe...
Ebola fever
1: a severe and often fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees) caused by the Ebola virus; characterized by high fever and severe internal bleeding; can be spread from pe...
Ebola hemorrhagic fever
1: a severe and often fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees) caused by the Ebola virus; characterized by high fever and severe internal bleeding; can be spread from pe...
Ebola virus
1: a filovirus that causes Ebola hemorrhagic fever; carried by animals; can be used as a bioweapon
ebon
1: very dark black [syn: {ebony}]
Ebonics
1: a nonstandard form of American English spoken by some Black people in the United States [syn: {Black English}, {Black English Vernacular}]
ebonise
1: stain black to make it look like ebony [syn: {ebonize}]
ebonite
1: a hard nonresilient rubber formed by vulcanizing natural rubber [syn: {hard rubber}, {vulcanite}]
ebonize
1: stain black to make it look like ebony [syn: {ebonise}]
ebony
1: very dark black [syn: {ebon}] n 1: a very dark black [syn: {coal black}, {jet black}, {pitch black}, {sable}, {soot black}] 2: hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and...
ebony family
1: fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon [syn: {Ebenaceae}, {family Ebenaceae}]
ebony spleenwort
1: common North American fern with polished black stripes [syn: {Scott's Spleenwort}, {Asplenium platyneuron}]
Ebro
1: a Spanish river; flows into the Mediterranean [syn: {Ebro River}]
Ebro River
1: a Spanish river; flows into the Mediterranean [syn: {Ebro}]
EbS
1: the compass point that is one point south of due east [syn: {east by south}]
ebullience
1: overflowing with enthusiasm [syn: {exuberance}, {enthusiasm}]
ebullient
1: joyously unrestrained [syn: {exuberant}, {high-spirited}]
ebulliently
1: in an ebullient manner; "Khrushchev ebulliently promised to supply rockets for the protection of Cuba against American aggression" [syn: {exuberantly}, {expansively}]
ebullition
1: an unrestrained expression of emotion [syn: {effusion}, {gush}, {outburst}, {blowup}]
eburnation
1: a change that occurs in degenerative joint disease in which bone is converted into a dense smooth substance resembling ivory
Eburophyton
1: a monocotyledonous genus of the family Orchidaceae [syn: {genus Eburophyton}]
Eburophyton austinae
1: waxy white nearly leafless plant with stems in clusters and racemes of white flowers; northwestern United States to northern California and east to Idaho [syn: {phantom orchid}, {snow orchid}]
EBV
1: the herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis; associated with specific cancers in Africa and China [syn: {Epstein-Barr virus}]
EC
1: an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members; "he took Britain into Europe" [syn: {European Unio...
ecarte
1: a card game for 2 players; played with 32 cards and king high
Ecballium
1: exploding cucumber; squirting cucumber [syn: {genus Ecballium}]
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