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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
eke \eke\ =ek, v. t. imp. p. p. eked =ekt; p. pr.
vb. n. eking. as. =ekan, =ykan; akin to ofries.
=aka, os. =okian, ohg. ouhh=on to add, icel. auka to
increase, sw. "oka, dan. "oge, goth. aukan, l. augere,
skr. =ojas strength, ugra mighty, and probably to english
wax, v. i. cf. augment, nickname.
to increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with
out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a
laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a
scanty supply of one kind with some other. "to eke my pain."
--spenser.
1913 webster
he eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty
pounds. --macaulay.
1913 webster
see also:
eked eking augment nickname
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
eke \eke\, adv. as. e'ac; akin to ofries. 'ak, os. ?k, d.
?ok, ohg. ouh, g. auch, icel. auk, sw. och and, dan. og,
goth. auk for, but. prob. from the preceding verb.
in addition; also; likewise. obs. or archaic
1913 webster
't will be prodigious hard to prove
that this is eke the throne of love. --prior.
1913 webster
a trainband captain eke was he
of famous london town. --cowper.
1913 webster
note: eke serves less to unite than to render prominent a
subjoined more important sentence or notion.
--maumtzner.
1913 webster
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
eke \eke\, n.
an addition. r.
1913 webster
clumsy ekes that may well be spared. --geddes.
1913 webster
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