Ease

ēz, n. freedom from pain or disturbance: rest from work: quiet: freedom from difficulty: naturalne .— v.t. to free from pain, trouble, or anxiety: to relieve: to calm.— adj. Ease′ful , ease-giving: quiet, fit for rest.— n. Ease′ment , relief: a istance: support: gratification.— adv. Eas′ily .— n. Eas′ine .— adj. Eas′y , at ease: free from pain: tranquil: unconstrained: giving ease: not difficult: yielding: not straitened (in circumstances): not tight: not strict, as in 'easy virtue.'— interj. Easy! a command to lower, or to go gently, to stop rowing, .— n. Eas′y-chair , an arm-chair for ease or rest.— adj. Eas′y-gō′ing , good-natured: indolent.— Ease one's self , to relieve nature.— Chapel of ease (see Chapel ); Free and easy (see Free ).— Honours easy , when the honours are evenly divided at whist: Ill at ease , uncomfortable; Stand at ease , used of soldiers, when freed from 'attention;' Take it easy , to be quite unconcerned: to be in no hurry; Take one's ease , to make one's self comfortable. [O. Fr. aise ; cog. with It. agio ; Prov. ais , Port. azo .]