7. (Com.) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight.
Honors are easy (Card Playing), said when each side has an equal number of honors, in which case they are not counted as points.
Syn. -- Quiet; comfortable; manageable; tranquil; calm; facile; unconcerned.
Eas"y-chair` (z"*châr`), n. An armchair for ease or repose. "Laugh . . . in Rabelais' easy-chair." Pope.
Eas"y-go`ing (-g`ng), a. Moving easily; hence, mild-tempered; ease-loving; inactive.
Eat (t), v. t. [imp. Ate (t; 277), Obsolescent & Colloq. Eat (t); p. p. Eaten (t"'n), Obs. or Colloq. Eat (t); p. pr. & vb. n. Eating.] [OE. eten, AS. etan; akin to OS. etan, OFries. eta, D. eten, OHG. ezzan, G. essen, Icel. eta, Sw. äta, Dan. æde, Goth. itan, Ir. & Gael. ith, W. ysu, L. edere, Gr. 'e`dein, Skr. ad. √6. Cf. Etch, Fret to rub, Edible.] 1. To chew and swallow as food; to devour; -- said especially of food not liquid; as, to eat bread. "To eat grass as oxen." Dan. iv. 25.
They . . . ate the sacrifices of the dead.
Ps. cvi. 28.
The lean . . . did eat up the first seven fat kine.
Gen. xli. 20.
The lion had not eaten the carcass.