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Anything resembling an egg in form.

A variety of squash with small egg-shaped fruit.

A species of tern, esp. the sooty tern (Sterna fuliginosa) of the West Indies. In the Bahama Islands the name is applied to the tropic bird, Phaëthon flavirostris.

A cup used for holding an egg, at table.

A small sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs; also, a small glass for holding an egg, at table.

Resembling an egg in form; ovoid.

Any bombycid moth of the genera Eriogaster and Lasiocampa; as, the oak eggar (L. roboris) of Europe.

Instigation; incitement. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who gathers eggs; an eggler.

A place where eggs are deposited (as by sea birds) or kept; a nest of eggs. [R.]

A kind of posset made of eggs, brandy, sugar, and ale. Lamb.

One who gathers, or deals in, eggs.

A drink consisting of eggs beaten up with sugar, milk, and (usually) wine or spirits.

allied to the tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shaped somewhat like an egg; mad-apple.

The shell or exterior covering of an egg. Also used figuratively for anything resembling an eggshell.

Same as Aby. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Abridge. [Obs.]

To allay or alleviate; to lighten. [Obs.] That shall alegge this bitter blast. Spenser.

See Alegge and Allay. [Obs.]

One of the small white egg-shaped pupæ or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs.