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v. t. See Abridge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. aleggen, alegen, OF. alegier, F. alléger, fr. LL. alleviare, for L. allevare to lighten; ad + levis light. Cf. Alleviate, Allay, Allege. ] To allay or alleviate; to lighten. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That shall alegge this bitter blast. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Alegge and Allay. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

One of the small white egg-shaped pupæ or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It., fr. arpeggiare to play on the harp, fr. arpa harp. ] (Mus.) The production of the tones of a chord in rapid succession, as in playing the harp, and not simultaneously; a strain thus played. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having legs of unequal length, as the badger was thought to have. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having legs that bend inward at the knees. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having crooked legs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the legs bare. bare-legged children on the beach [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being begged. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. beggere, fr. beg. ] 1. One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who makes it his business to ask alms. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One who assumes in argument what he does not prove. Abp. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Beggared p. pr. & vb. n. Beggaring. ] 1. To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to seem very poor and inadequate. [ 1913 Webster ]

It beggared all description. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Beggary. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. any of various Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing.
Syn. -- beggar's lice, beggar's-lice, beggar lice. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments.
Syn. -- tick trefoil, tick-trefoil, beggar's-lice. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. “A bankrupt, beggarly fellow.” South. “A beggarly fellowship.” Swift. “Beggarly elements.” Gal. iv. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Produced or occasioned by beggary. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Beggarly sins, that is, those sins which idleness and beggary usually betray men to; such as lying, flattery, stealing, and dissimulation. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an indigent, mean, or despicable manner; in the manner of a beggar. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) The prickly fruit or seed of certain plants (as some species of Echinospermum and Cynoglossum) which cling to the clothing of those who brush by them. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity; -- also called beggar-ticks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the seed of bur marigolds.
Syn. -- spanish needles. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and pricky fruits that cling to fur and clothing; -- also called beggar's-ticks.
Syn. -- bur marigold, burr marigold, beggar's-ticks, sticktight. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a woman who is a beggar. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. beggerie. See Beggar, n. ] 1. The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Beggarly appearance. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The freedom and the beggary of the old studio. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Indigence; want; penury; mendicancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Beggarly. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Beg + -ster. ] A beggar. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. [ 1913 Webster ]

And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort (1691). [ 1913 Webster ]

n.(Bot.), a name given to several perennial plants having showy flowers of two shades of yellow, or of yellow and orange, such as Narcissus incomparabilis in Europe, and the toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) in the United States; the latter is a naturalized weed in North America.
Syn. -- toadflax, wild snapdragon, devil's flax, Linaria vulgaris. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a weedy vine of Argentina (Salpichroa organifolia) having solitary white flowers followed by egg-shaped white or yellow fruit.
Syn. -- cock's eggs, Salpichroa organifolia, Salpichroa rhomboidea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the legs crossed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a hard-boiled egg, sliced into halves and with the yolk removed and replaced with a paste, usually made from the yolk and mayonnaise, seasoned with salt and/or spices such as paprika. [ PJC ]

a. (Arch) Noting a flight of stairs, consisting of two or more straight portions connected by a platform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fullness of dregs or lees; foulness; feculence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Foul with lees; feculent. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul; feculent. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having short legs, like a waddling duck; short-legged. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE., fr. Icel. egg; akin to AS. æg (whence OE. ey), Sw. ägg, Dan. æg, G. & D. ei, and prob. to OSlav. aje, jaje, L. ovum, Gr. 'w, o`n, Ir. ugh, Gael. ubh, and perh. to L. avis bird. Cf. Oval. ] 1. (Popularly) The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the “white” or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) A simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything resembling an egg in form. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Egg is used adjectively, or as the first part of self-explaining compounds; as, egg beater or egg-beater, egg case, egg ladle, egg-shaped, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Egg and anchor (Arch.), see egg-and-dart in the vocabulary, below; -- called also egg and dart, and egg and tongue. See Anchor, n., 5. Ogilvie. --
Egg cleavage (Biol.), a process of cleavage or segmentation, by which the egg undergoes endogenous division with formation of a mass of nearly similar cells, from the growth and differentiation of which the new organism is ultimately formed. See Segmentation of the ovum, under Segmentation. --
Egg development (Biol.), the process of the development of an egg, by which the embryo is formed. --
Egg mite (Zoöl.), any mite which devours the eggs of insects, as Nothrus ovivorus, which destroys those of the canker worm. --
Egg parasite (Zoöl.), any small hymenopterous insect, which, in the larval stage, lives within the eggs of other insects. Many genera and species are known. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Egged p. pr. & vb. n. Egging ] [ OE. eggen, Icel. eggja, fr. egg edge. &unr_;&unr_;. See Edge. ] To urge on; to instigate; to incite&unr_; [ 1913 Webster ]

Adam and Eve he egged to ill. Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ She ] did egg him on to tell
How fair she was. Warner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as egg-and-dart.
Syn. -- egg-and-dart, egg-and-tongue. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a decorative ovolo molding, having a series of egg-shaped figures alternating with another shape in the form of a dart or anchor. Also used attributively; as, an egg-and-dart molding; an egg-and-dart design. Called also egg and dart, and egg and tongue
Syn. -- egg-and-anchor, egg and anchor, egg-and-tongue, egg and tongue. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. same as egg-and-dart.
Syn. -- egg-and-anchor, egg-and-dart. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] (Zoöl.) Any bombycid moth of the genera Eriogaster and Lasiocampa; as, the oak eggar (L. roboris) of Europe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a small device having one or usually two blades, each having several stiff oval wires at the tip. The blades are swirled or rotated for beating eggs or whipping cream. The electrical variety typically have two such blades, which are arranged so that the tips of the blades interlace while rotating.
Syn. -- eggwhisk. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. (Zoöl.) A species of tern, esp. the sooty tern (Sterna fuliginosa) of the West Indies. In the Bahama Islands the name is applied to the tropic bird, Phaëthon flavirostris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cup used for holding an egg, at table. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Egg, v. t. + -ment. ] Instigation; incitement. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Egg, n. ] One who gathers eggs; an eggler. [ 1913 Webster ]