Search the Dictionary

Managing with frugality; guarding against waste or unnecessary expense; careful and frugal in management and in expenditure; -- said of character or habits. Just rich enough, with economic care, To save a pittance. Harte.

The act or practice of using to the best effect. [R.] H. Spenser.

nce; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income. [Written also economise.] Expenses in the city were to be economized. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Calculating how to economize time. W. Irving.

affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy. Himself busy in charge of the household economies. Froude.

A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected. Mayne.

To build; to construct. [Archaic] There was a holy chapel edified. Spenser.

. To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge. H. Spenser.

See Eke. [Obs.] Spenser.

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

To make fierce. [Obs.] Spenser.

To force; to constrain; to compel to yield. [Obs.] Spenser.

To frighten; to scare. [Obs.] Spenser.

Again; afterwards; soon; quickly. [Obs.] I wold never eft comen into the snare. Spenser.

he fall from his capel [horse] eftsone. Chaucer. The champion stout eftsoons dismounted. Spenser.

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.

is said, eelde hath great avantage. Chaucer. Great Nature, ever young, yet full of eld. Spenser.

Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more. "Colors quaint elect." Spenser.

To remove afar off; to withdraw. [Obs.] From worldly cares he did himself eloign. Spenser.

To bind up; to inclose. Legs . . . embaled in golden buskins. Spenser.

r shut in; to inclose securely, as with bars. Where fast embarred in mighty brazen wall. Spenser.