Egg

eg, n. an oval body laid by birds and certain other animals, from which their young are produced: anything shaped like an egg.— ns. Egg′-app′le , or plant , the brinjal or aubergine, an East Indian annual with egg-shaped fruit; Egg′-bird , a sooty tern; Egg′-cō′sy , a covering put over boiled eggs to keep in the heat after being taken from the pot: Egg′-cup , a cup for holding an egg at table; Egg′er , Egg′ler , one who collects eggs; Egg′ery , a place where eggs are laid; Egg′-flip , a hot drink made of ale, with eggs, sugar, spice, .; Egg′-gla , a small sand-gla for regulating the boiling of eggs; Egg′-nog , a drink compounded of eggs and hot beer, spirits, .; Egg′-shell , the shell or calcareous substance which covers the eggs of birds; Egg′-slice , a kitchen utensil for lifting fried eggs out of a pan; Egg′-spoon , a small spoon used in eating eggs from the shell.— A bad egg ( coll. ), a worthle person; Put all one's eggs into one basket , to risk all on one enterprise; Take eggs for money , to be put off with mere promises of payment; Teach your grandmother to suck eggs , spoken contemptuously to one who would teach those older and wiser than himself; Tread upon eggs , to walk warily, to steer one's way carefully in a delicate situation. [A.S. æg ; cf. Ice. egg , Ger. ei , perh. L. ovum , Gr. ōon .]