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nveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty 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.

A variety of scapolite.

An additional or epithet name; a nickname. [Obs.]

An herbaceous plant of the nightshade family (Physalis alkekengi) and its fruit, which is a well flavored berry, the size of a cherry, loosely inclosed in a enlarged leafy calyx; -- also called winter cherry, ground cherry, and strawberry tomato. D. C. Eaton.

To avenge. [Obs.] See Wreak.

To wreak; to avenge. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.

A library. [Obs.] Bale.

Having a cheek; -- used in composition. "Rose-cheeked Adonis." Shak.

See Ciclatoun. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A telescope of low power, having a large field of view, used for finding comets.

See Eke. [Obs.] Spenser.

An archdeacon. [Obs.]

One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve. Blackstone.

A female Greek. [R.]

One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants of a household and manage the ordinary domestic affairs.

a supply of provisions. [Obs.] Tell me, softly and hastly, what's in the pantry Small housekeeping enough, said Phoebe. Sir W. Scott.

To make meek; to nurture in gentleness and humility. [Obs.] Chaucer.

d sacraments. A skeptic [is] ever seeking and never finds, like our new upstart sect of Seekers. Bullokar.

Sick. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A place in a pagan temple in which the images of the deities were inclosed.