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860 words match “NYS”

EARLY adv.
y. Those that me early shall find me. Prov. viii. 17. You must wake and call me early. Tennyson.
EARTHY a.
w pale she looks, And of an earthy cold! Shak. All over earthy, like a piece of earth. Tennyson.
EAT v.
How fairy Mab junkets eat. Milton. The island princes overbold Have eat our substance. Tennyson. His wretched estate is eaten up with mortgages. Thackeray.
EAVEDROP n.
A drop from the eaves; eavesdrop. [R.] Tennyson.
EAVES n.
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 eave…
EERIE; EERY a.
weird; as, eerie stories. She whose elfin prancer springs By night to eery warblings. Tennyson.
EGALITY n.
Equality. Chaucer. Tennyson.
EGLATERE n.
Eglantine. [Obs. or R.] [Written also eglantere.] Tennyson.
ELFLAND n.
Fairyland. Tennyson.
ELLIPSE n.
e Sun flies forward to his brother Sun; The dark Earth follows wheeled in her ellipse. Tennyson.
EMBATTAIL v.
attlements. [Archaic] To embattail and to wall about thy cause With iron-worded proof. Tennyson.
EMBRACE n.
essure to the bosom; clasp; hug. We stood tranced in long embraces, Mixed with kisses. Tennyson.
EMOTION n.
t the emotions between departure and return! W. Irving. Some vague emotion of delight. Tennyson.
EMPANOPLIED a.
Completely armed; panoplied. Tennyson.
EMPTINESS n.
. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray. Pope. The sins of emptiness, gossip, and spite. Tennyson.
ENCARNALIZE v.
To carnalize; to make gross. [R.] "Encarnalize their spirits." Tennyson.
ENCHAIR v.
To seat in a chair. Tennyson.
ENCHANT v.
airies in a ring, Enchanting all that you put in. Shak. He is enchanted, cannot speak. Tennyson.
ENCOMPASS v.
be encompassed with difficulty. C. J. Smith. The love of all thy sons encompass thee. Tennyson.
ENRING v.
e Muses and the Graces, grouped in threes, Enringed a billowing fountain in the midst. Tennyson.
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