Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume DE

2. Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating. [Colloq.]

-- Eating house, a house where cooked provisions are sold, to be eaten on the premises.

Eau` de Co·logne" (?). [F. eau water (L. aqua) + de of + Cologne.] Same as Cologne.

Eau` de vie" (?). [F., water of life; eau (L. aqua) water + de of + vie (L. vita) life.] French name for brandy. Cf. Aqua vitę, under Aqua. Bescherelle.

Eau` forte" (ō` frt"). [F., strong water, nitric acid (which is used in etching plates).] (Art) An etching or a print from an etched plate.

Eave"drop` (?), n. A drop from the eaves; eavesdrop. [R.] Tennyson.

Eaves (?), n. pl. [OE. evese, pl. eveses, AS. efese eaves, brim, brink; akin to OHG. obisa, opasa, porch, hall, MHG. obse eaves, Icel. ups, Goth. ubizwa porch; cf. Icel. upsar-dropi, OSw. opsä-drup water dropping from the eaves. Probably from the root of E. over. The s of eaves is in English regarded as a plural ending, though not so in Saxon. See Over, and cf. Eavesdrop.]

1. (Arch.) The edges or lower borders of the roof of a building, which overhang the walls, and cast off the water that falls on the roof.

2. Brow; ridge. [Obs.] "Eaves of the hill." Wyclif.

3. Eyelids or eyelashes.

And closing eaves of wearied eyes.
Tennyson.

-- Eaves board (Arch.), an arris fillet, or a thick board with a feather edge, nailed across the rafters at the eaves of a building, to raise the lower course of slates a little, or to receive the lowest course of tiles; -- called also eaves catch and eaves lath.

-- Eaves channel, Eaves gutter, Eaves trough. Same as Gutter, 1.

-- Eaves molding (Arch.), a molding immediately below the eaves, acting as a cornice or part of a cornice.