eggtooth (egtoth)

A hard point or proce on the beak or snout of the embryo of an oviparous animal, as a bird or reptile, by means of which the rupture or breakage of the egg-shell may be facilitated. IMG:content-0254.png:[blocks in formation] He was lad into a gardin of Cayphas, and there he was cround with eglentier. Mandeville, Travels, p. 14. The woodbine and egletere Drip sweeter dews than traitor's tear. Tennyson, A Dirge. eglentinet, n. An obsolete spelling of eglantine. Minsheu. eglomeratet (e-glom'èr-at), v. t.; pret. and pp. eglomerated, ppr. eglomerating. [L. e, out, + glomeratus, pp. of glomerare, wind up into a ball: see glomerate.] To unwind, as a thread from a ball. Coles, 1717. egma (eg'ma), n. A humorous corruption of enigma. Arm. Some enigma, some riddle: come, thy l'envoy; begin. Cost. No egma, no riddle, no l'envoy. ego (eʹgō), n. Shak ., L. L. L., iii. 1. [ ego = Gr. ἐγώ = AS. ic , E. 1: see 12.] The "I"; that which feels, acts, and thinks; any person's "self," considered as e entially the same in all persons. This use of the word was introduced by Des cartes, and has long been current in general literature. The ego , as the subject of thought and knowledge, is now commonly styled by philosophers simply the subject, and subjective is a familiar expre ion for what pertains to the mind or thinking power. In contrast and correlation to tooth, a development like that of the chick. egg-trot (eg'trot), n. Stand. Nat. Hist ., III. 352. In the manège , a cautious jog-trot pace, like that of a housewife riding to market with eggs in her panniers. Also called eggwife-trot.