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Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.

of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent. The mouse, Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked, Or from the crevice peered about. Tennyson.

Hard to suit; difficult to please. [Obs.] My wages ben full strait, and eke full small; My lord to me is hard and dangerous. Chaucer.

contrivance to entrap; deception; a wily device; fraud. Making the ephah small and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit. Amos viii. 5. Friendly to man, far from deceit or guile. Milton. Yet still we hug the dear deceit. N. Cotton.

To lay up or away for safekeeping; to put up; to store; as, to deposit goods in a warehouse.

Diminution. [R.] Cheke.

Having eyes like a dove; meekeyed; as, dove-eyed Peace.

Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony. Political economy. See under Political.

The old plural of Eye. And eke with fatness swollen were his een. Spenser.

ause he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel. Deut. xxii. 19. The owl shrieked at thy birth -- an evil sign. Shak. Evil news rides post, while good news baits. Milton. Evil eye, an eye which inflicts injury by some magical or fascinating influence. It is still believed by the ignorant and superstitious…

Speech; eloquence. [Obs.] Her facound eke full womanly and plain. Chaucer.

End; conclusion; object. [Obs.] "She knew eke the fin of his intent." Chaucer.

ls, time, etc.; characterized by frugality; sparing; economical; saving; as, a frugal housekeeper; frugal of time. I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit Such disproportions. Milton.

A small coin and weight; 1-20th of a shekel.

A farmhouse, with the barns and other buildings for farming purposes. And eke an officer out for to ride, To see her granges and her bernes wide. Chaucer. Nor burnt the grange, nor bussed the milking maid. Tennyson.

aceous plants having an inflated calyx for a seed pod: esp., the strawberry tomato (P. Alkekengi). See Alkekengl. (b) A European shrub (Prunus Chamæcerasus), with small, very acid fruit. -- Ground cuckoo. (Zoöl.) See Chaparral cock. -- Ground cypress. (Bot.) See Lavender cotton. -- Ground dove (Zoöl.), one of severa…

with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment. Full sooty was her bower and eke her hall. Chaucer. Hence, as the entrance from outside was directly into the hall:

A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard. And eke there was a polecat in his haw. Chaucer.

The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.

A housewife or housekeeper. [Obs.]