Part 3579

<blockquote>The lion had not <b>eaten</b> the carcass. <i>1 Kings xiii. 28.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>With stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab junkets <b>eat</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The island princes overbold Have <b>eat</b> our substance. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>His wretched estate is <b>eaten</b> up with mortgages. <i>Thackeray.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear.</def>

<cs><col>To eat humble pie</col>. <cd>See under <er>Humble</er>.</cd> -- <col>To eat of</col> <cd>(<mark>partitive use</mark>).</cd> "<i>Eat of<i> the bread that can not waste." <i>Keble</i>. -- <col>To eat one's words</col>, <cd>to retract what one has said.</cd> (See the Citation under <er>Blurt</er>.) -- <col>To eat out</col>, <cd>to consume completely. "<i>Eat out<i> the heart and comfort of it." <i>Tillotson</i>.</cd> -- <col>To eat the wind out of a vessel</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to gain slowly to windward of her.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- To consume; devour; gnaw; corrode.</syn>

<h1>Eat</h1> <Xpage=467>

<hw>Eat</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board.</def>

<blockquote>He did <b>eat</b> continually at the king's table. <i>2 Sam. ix. 13.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To taste or relish; <as>as, it <ex>eats</ex> like tender beef</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To make one's way slowly.</def>

<cs><mcol><col>To eat</col>, <col>To eat in</col> &or; <col>into</col></mcol>, <cd>to make way by corrosion; to gnaw; to consume. "A sword laid by, which <i>eats into<i> itself." <i>Byron</i>.</cd> -- <col>To eat to windward</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>to keep the course when closehauled with but little steering; -- said of a vessel.</cd></cs>

<h1>Eatable</h1> <Xpage=467>

<hw>Eat"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>Something fit to be eaten.</def></def2>

<h1>Eatage</h1> <Xpage=467>

<hw>Eat"age</hw> <tt>(?; 48)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath.</def>

<h1>Eater</h1> <Xpage=467>

<hw>Eat"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, eats.</def>

<h1>Eath</h1> <Xpage=467>

<hw>Eath</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a. & adv.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>e\'a0<?/e</ets>.]</ety> <def>Easy or easily.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Eath</i> to move with plaints."

<i>Fairfax.</i>

<h1>Eating</h1> <Xpage=467>

<hw>Eat"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Something fit to be eaten; food; <as>as, a peach is good <ex>eating</ex></as>.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<cs><col>Eating house</col>, <cd>a house where cooked provisions are sold, to be eaten on the premises.</cd></cs>

<h1>Eau de Cologne</h1> <Xpage=467>

<hw>Eau` de Co*logne"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[F. <ets>eau</ets> water (L. <ets>aqua</ets>) + <ets>de</ets> of + <ets>Cologne</ets>.]</ety> <def>Same as <er>Cologne</er>.</def>