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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume DE

Eel"buck` (?), n. An eelpot or eel basket.

Eel"fare` (?), n. [Eel + fare a journey or passage.] (Zoöl.) A brood of eels. [Prov. Eng.]

Eel"grass` (?), n. (Bot.) A plant (Zostera marina), with very long and narrow leaves, growing abundantly in shallow bays along the North Atlantic coast.

Eel"-moth`er (?), n. (Zoöl.) The eelpout.

Eel"pot` (?), n. A boxlike structure with funnel-shaped traps for catching eels; an eelbuck.

Eel"pout` (?), n. [AS. ?lepute.] (Zoöl.) (a) A European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young; -- called also greenbone, guffer, bard, and Maroona eel. Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel. Both are edible, but of little value. (b) A fresh-water fish, the burbot.

Eel"spear` (?), n. A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels.

E'en (?), adv. A contraction for even. See Even.

I have e'en done with you.
L'Estrange.

Een (?), n. The old plural of Eye.

And eke with fatness swollen were his een.
Spenser.

E'er (?; 277), adv. A contraction for ever. See Ever.

Ee"rie, Ee"ry (?), a. [Scotch, fr. AS. earh timid.]

1. Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories.

She whose elfin prancer springs
By night to eery warblings.
Tennyson.

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