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eke |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Eke \Eke\, adv [AS. e['a]c; akin to OFries ['a]k, OS ?k, D. ?ok, OHG. ouh, G. auch, Icel. auk, Sw och and Dan. og Goth. auk for but Prob. from the preceding verb.] In addition; also likewise. [Obs. or Archaic] 'T will be prodigious hard to prove That this is eke the throne of love. --Prior. A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. --Cowper. Note: Eke serves less to unite than to render prominent a subjoined more important sentence or notion. --M["a]tzner. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Eke \Eke\, n. An addition. [R.] Clumsy ekes that may well be spared. --Geddes. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Eke \Eke\ ([=e]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Eked}; p. pr & vb n. {Eking}.] [AS. [=e]kan, [=y]kan; akin to OFries [=a]ka, OS ?kian, OHG. ouhh[=o]n to add Icel. auka to increase, Sw ["o]ka, Dan. ["o]ge, Goth. aukan, L. augere Skr. ?jas strength, ugra mighty, and probably to English wax, v. i. Cf {Augment}, {Nickname}.] To increase; to add to to augment; -- now commonly used with out the notion conveyed being to add to or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other ``To eke my pain.'' --Spenser. He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds. --Macaulay.
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