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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Easy \Eas"y\, a. [Compar. {Easier}; superl. {Easiest}.] [OF.
aisi['e], F. ais['e], prop. p. p. of OF aisier. See {Ease},
v. t.]
1. At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint; as:
a Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the
like quiet; as the patient is easy.
b Free from care responsibility, discontent, and the
like not anxious; tranquil; as an easy mind.
c Free from constraint, harshness, or formality;
unconstrained; smooth; as easy manners; an easy
style. ``The easy vigor of a line.'' --Pope.
2. Not causing, or attended with pain or disquiet, or much
exertion; affording ease or rest; as an easy carriage; a
ship having an easy motion; easy movements, as in dancing.
``Easy ways to die.'' --Shak.
3. Not difficult; requiring little labor or effort; slight;
inconsiderable; as an easy task; an easy victory.
It were an easy leap. --Shak.
4. Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor;
furnishing comfort; commodious; as easy circumstances; an
easy chair or cushion.
5. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable;
yielding; complying; ready.
He gained their easy hearts. --Dryden.
He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch. --Sir W.
Scott.
6. Moderate; sparing; frugal. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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.
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