E. with _e_ final after the consonant, for _ea_, as brede, bread;
benes, beans; bete, beat; breke, break; creme, cream; clere, clear;
clene, clean; mede, mead; mete, meat; stede, stead; whete, wheat; &c.
E with _e_ final after the consonant, for _ee_, as betes, beets;
chese, cheese; depe, deep; fete, feet; grene, green; nede, needful;
swete, sweet.
Endorre. MS. Ed. 42. endorse.
Ete. 103. eat. _eten_, 146. eaten. _etyn_. MS. Ed. 3. A.S.
[Anglo-Saxon: etan]. MS. Ed. 48. oat.
Enforse. MS. Ed. II. 20. seasoned.
Erbes. 7. herbs; _herb's_, 63. _erbys_, 151. Eerbis, 157.
Eyren, and Ayren. 7, 8. 15. Eyryn, S. Ed. 1. Eggs. 'a merchant at the
N. Foreland in Kent asked for eggs, and the good wyf answerede, that
she coude speak no Frenshe--another sayd, that he wolde have _eyren_,
then the good wyf sayd that she understood hym wel.' Caxton's Virgil,
in Lewis' Life of Caxton, p. 61. who notes 'See Sewel's 'Dictionary,
v. _Ey_.' add, Urry's Chaucer, v. Aye and Eye. Note here the old
plural _en_, that _eggs_ is sometimes used in our Roll, and that in
Wicht _eye_, or _ey_ is the singular, and in the _Germ_. See Chaucer.
v. _Aie_, and _Ay_.
Eowts. 6. v. ad loc.
Egurdouce. 21. v. ad loc. of Fysshe, 133. Egge dows, MS. Ed. 50. malè.
Egerduse. ibid. II. 1. Our No. 58, is really an Eagerdouce, but
different from this here. A Seville Orange is Aigre-douce. Cotgrave.
Esy. 67. easy. eselich, 113. easily. Chaucer.
Eny. 74. 173. any.
Elena Campana. 78. i.e. Enula Campana, _Elecampane_.
Erbowle. 95. a dish. v. ad loc.
Erbolat. 172. a dish. v. ad loc.
Eerys, Eris. 177. 182. 55. Ears. _Eyr_. MS. Ed. 44. Chaucer has _Ere_
and _Eris_.
Elren. 171. Elder. _Eller_, in the north, without _d_.
Erne. 174. qu.
Euarund. MS. Ed. 3.
Eelys. 101. Eels. _Elys_, _Helys_. MS. Ed. II. 15. 24. _Elis_.
Chaucer.