eatage (etaj)

[A corruption (as if ing; caustic. The eating force of flames, and wings of winds. B. Jonson, Cat i line, iii. 3. Ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs. Milton , L'Allegro, 1. 135. eating-house (e'ting-hous), n. A house where food is served to customers; a place of resort for meals; a restaurant. Eaton code. See code. eau (ō), n.; pl. eaux (oz). [F., Plural of eau . eaux, n. eavet, v. t. [ eaves .] To shelter, as beneath eaves. Davies. [Rare.] His hat shap't almost like a cone, With narrow rim scarce wide enough To eave from rain the staring ruff. T. Ward, England's Reformation, p. 102. eavedropt, v . See eavesdrop . eaver (ēver), n. [E. dial.] Rye-gra . Halli flesh. Ayenbite of Inwyt, p. 47. Prov. xxiii. 20. Be not among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of Where are all my eaters? my mouths, now? B. Jonson, Epicæne, iii. 2. Menials appear to have been treated formerly with very little ceremony; they were stripped and beaten at their master's pleasure; and cormorants, eaters , and feeders were among the civil est names bestowed upon them. Giford , Note to B. Jonson's Every Man out of his [Humour, v. 1. 2. That which eats or corrodes; a corrosive. eatht (ETH), a. [ That kud knigt is eth to know by his kene dedes. William of Palerne , 1. 3571. More eath it were for mortall wight To tell the sands, or count the starres on hye. Spenser, F. Q., IV. xi. 53. All hard a ayes esteem I eath and light. Fairfax , tr. of Ta o, ii. 46. eatht (тн), adv . [ ethe , eathe , ythe , eáth , ēth , easily, eathe , easy: see eath, a.] Easily. Who thinks him most secure, is eathest sham'd. Fairfax , tr. of Ta o, x. 42. eathlyt (етн'li), adv . Easily. Hall i well. eating (e'ting), n. [ etynge ; verbal n. of eat, v.] 1. The act of consuming food, especially solid food. Defoe , Tour through Great Britain, I. 362. eaves (ēvz), n. pl. [Early mod. E. also eves; Anne for so the sat beside the weie eche dai in the euese of the hil. Wyclif , Tobit xi. 5 (Oxf.). Thus laykez this lorde by lynde wodez [lind-wood's] euez . Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight , 1. 1178. Specifically-2. The lower edge of a roof; that part of the roof of a building which projects beyond the wall and sheds the water that falls on the roof; hence, figuratively, any projecting rim. His tears run down his beard, like winter's drops From eaves of reeds. Shak ., Tempest, v. 1. Shrowded under an obscure cloke, and the eres of an old hat. B. Jonson, Fortunate Isles. Sombre streets of palaces with overhanging eaves , that, almost meeting, form a shelter from the fiercest sun. J. A. Symonds, Italy and Greece, p. 283. eaves-board, eaves-catch (ēvz'bord, -kach), An arris-fillet, or a thick board with a feather-edge, nailed acro the rafters at the eaves of a roof to raise the course of slates a little. Also called eaves - lath . eaves-drip (ēvz'drip), n. [ME. not found; efes- , yfes - drypa , yfes - drop a (= Icel. upsar n. drop i = OSw. opsädrup = OFries. osedropta = MD. osendrup , oosdrup (also osenloop ), D. o08b, eaves-drip, stillicide), de), efese , efese , eaves, + druip, dryppan, drip, drop a, a drop: see eaves and drip, drop. Cf. eaves - drop.] An ancient custom or law which required a proprietor to build in such a manner that the eaves-drop from his house or buildings should not fall on the land of his neighbor. It was the same as the urban servitude of the Romans, called stillicide ( stillici dium ).