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as: (a) Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy. (b) Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind. (c) Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style. "The easy vigo…

An armichair for ease or repose. "Laugh . . . in Rabelais' easy-chair." Pope.

Moving easily; hence, mild-tempered; ease-loving; inactive.

Full of creases. Tennyson.

Composed of, or characterized by, grease; oily; unctuous; as, a greasy dish.

Flimsy; vague; deceptive. [Obs.] Ascham.

Not easy; painful. [Obs.]

Fastidious; squeamish; delicate; easily disturbed; unsettled; ticklish. " A queasy question." Shak. Some seek, when queasy conscience has its qualms. Cowper.

Queasy; nice; squeamish; fastidious; scrupulous. [Obs.] Bp. Earle.

Not easy; difficult. [R.] Things . . . so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood. Boyle. The road will be uneasy to find. Sir W. Scott.

Given to sensual indulgence; gluttonous. [Obs.] Joye.

Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person.

Easy to be acquainted with; affable. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

g of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something The too easy admission of doctrines. Macaulay.

Easy to be spoken to or addressed; receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; courteous; sociable. An affable and courteous gentleman. Shak. His manners polite and affable. Macaulay.

." Macaulay. Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural what is natural. Locke.

A path through the air made easy for aërial navigation by steady winds.

To go at the easy gait called an amble; -- applied to the horse or to its rider.

Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. [Obs.] Jacob.

esp. a compound lubricant for machinery, etc., often consisting of plumbago, with some greasy material; antifriction grease.