eavings (evingz)

pl. [Contr. of eavesings: see eavesing. ] Eaves. Cotgrave. otgrave. [Now chiefly prov. Eng.] ébauchoir (a-bo-shwor'), n. [F., ebony A member of a party of Judaizing Christians which appeared in the church as early as the second century and disappeared about the fourth century. They agreed in (1) the recognition of Jesus as the Me iah, (2) the denial of his divinity, (3) belief in the universal obligation of the Mosaic law, and (4) rejection of Paul and his writings. The two great divisions of Ebionites were the Pharisaic Ebionites, who emthe obligation of the Mosaic law, and the E enic Ebionites, who were more speculative and leaned toward Gnosticism. Prob. related to Goth. ibuks , backward, and per- haps to Goth. ibns = AS. efen , E. event , q. v.] Ebionitismoi-izmit LG. ebbe (> G. ebbe ) = Sw. ebb = Dan. ebbe , ebb. II. a . Relating to the heresy of the Ebionites. Of or pertaining to the Ebionites or Ebionitism. Evionite As sore wondren som me on cause of thonder, On ebbe , on flood, on go omer, and on mist. His mother was a witch, and one so strong That could control the moon, make flows and ebbs . Shak ., Tempest, v. 1. Sometimes at a low ebbe they [quicksands) are all un- Coryat , Crudities, I. 2. covered with water. [Æschylus) was always at high flood of pa ion, even in the dead ebb and lowest water-mark of the scene. Dryden, Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy. 2. Figuratively, to lie in wait to hear the pri- 2. A flowing backward or away; decline; devate conversation of others. IMG:content-0177.jpg:[blocks in formation] The jealous eare of night eave - drops our talke. Marston, Antonio and Mellida, I., ii. 1. It is not civil to eavesdrop him, but I'm sure he talks on 't now. Shirley, Hyde Park, i. 2. eavesdropper (ēvz'drop"ėr), n. [Early mod. E. also eves dropper , esen - dropper ; eavesdrop , v., + -er1.] One who watches for an opportunity to hear the private conversation of others. Under our tents I'll play the eaves - dropper , To hear if any mean to shrink from me. Shak., Rich. III., v. 3. Eaves-droppers, or such as listen under walls or windows or the eaves of a house, to hearken after discourse, and thereupon to frame slanderous and mischievous tales, are a common nuisance, and presentable at the court leet. Black stone , Com., IV. xiii. eavesdropping (ēvz'drop"ing), n. [Verbal n. of eavesdrop , v .] The act of one who eavesdrops; the doings of an eavesdropper. .. cay; a gradual falling off or diminution: as, the ebb of prosperity; crime is on the ebb. There have been divers of your Royal Progenitors who have had as shrewd Shocks; and 'tis well known how the next transmarine Kings have been brought to lower ebbs. Howell , Letters, ii. 63. I hate to learn the ebb of time From yon dull steeple's drowsy chime. Scott , L. of the L., vi. 24. Moral principle was at as low an ebb in private as in Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 14. public life. 31. A name of the common bunting, Emberiza miliaria. Montagu. II. a. Not deep; shallow. The water there is otherwise verie low and ebb . The ebber shore. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxx i. 7. Bp . Hall , Works (1648), p. 20. (Hall i well.) O how ebb a soul have I to take in Christ's love! Rutherford, Letters, viii. ebb (eb), v . [ ebben , ebbian = D. ebben = MLG. LG. ebben (> MHG. eppen, G. ebben ) = Sw. ebb a = Dan. ebbe , ebb: see the noun.] I. in trans. 1. To flow back; return, as the water of a tide, toward the ocean; sub- side: opposed to flow : as, the tide ebbs and flows twice in twenty-four hours. See tide . This Watre renne the, flowynge and ebbynge , be asyde of the Mountayne. Mandeville , Travels, p. 199. Then might the conversations of a Schiller with a Goethe tempt Honesty itself into eavesdropping . Carlyle, Schiller. eavesingt (ēv'zing), n. [E. dial. contr. pl. eav ings , easings ; evesynge , eaves (also, earlier, evesunge , a shearing, efesung , a shearing (around the edges), verbal n. of efesian , ef sian , shear, = Icel. efs a , cut), evese , edge, eaves: 2. To return or recede; fall away; decline. see eaves .] 1. A shearing; what is shorn off. IMG:content-0178.jpg:[blocks in formation] Eaves-swallow (Pet roc he lid on lunifrons). ed States, and were observed to build their bottle-nosed nests of mud under the eaves of houses, their natural nesting-places being on cliffs. Often le correctly writ, 2. The house-martin, Chelidon urbica. Also easing-swallow. [Local, Eng.] ten eave- swallow. the Creek where we lived was almost dry. IMG:content-0179.jpg:[blocks in formation] The principal monument of the E enian Ebionitism is the pseudo-Clementine writings, whose date is somewhere in the latter part of the second century. G. P. Fisher, Begin. of Christianity, p. 499. eblanin (eb'la-nin), n. [Formation not clear.] Same as pyro xanthine . Eblis, Iblees (eb'lis, ib'lēs), n. [Ar. Iblis .] In Mohammedan myth ., an evil spirit or devil, the chief of the fallen angels or wicked jinns. Before his fall he was called Azazel or Hharis. -Hall of Eblis, the hall of demons; pandemonium. eboe-light (ē'bo-līt), n. [ eboe , appar. W. Ind., + light1 .] The Erythroxylon brevipes , a shrub of the West Indies. eboe-torchwood (ē ́bō-tôrch" wud), n. Same as eboe - light.