_Eager_, 249. Sour; French, _aigre_, as in vinegar.
_Earnest pennie_, 542. The small sum given as part payment in
earnest that, or as assurance that, the bargain had been made.
_Embossed_, 316. [Spoken of glasses in “perspective” devices.]
Convex (?).
_Enabled_, 164. Made able, strengthened.
_Eversed_, 316. [As under _Embossed_.] Possibly concave (?).
_Exchange_, 218. To change or transform.
_Excourse_, 43. Lat. _excursus_, outgoing.
_Expend_, 444. Hang, or rather weigh out.
_Experiment_, 82. Trial, or mode of proof; the verb is similarly
used.
_Exsufflation_, 440. In Roman Catholic baptism the devil is
rejected by exsufflando (blowing him away) and by abrenunciation
(the renouncing) of him and his works.
_Extermination_, 485. A driving out beyond the boundary or terminus.
_Eybitten_, 64. “Master Scot in his _Discovery_ telleth us,
That our English people in Ireland, whose posterity were lately
barbarously cut off, were much given to this Idolatry in the
Queen’s time, insomuch that there being a Disease amongst their
Cattel that grew blind, being a common Disease in that Country,
they did commonly execute people for it, calling them eye biting
witches” (_A Candle in the Dark_, by Th. Ady, M.A., 1656, p. 104).
Scot did not tell him this, but the explanation prevents erroneous
guesses.