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Egg

noun

Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds.

Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food. Synonym: eggs.

One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens. Synonyms: ball, ballock, bollock, nut, orchis, testicle, testis.

verb

(past & past part. egged; pres. part. egging)

Throw eggs at.

Coat with beaten egg.

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"Egg" Quotes from Famous Books

... spying me, should fall to weep, Beseech me to be good, repair his wrong, Bid his poor leg smart less or grow again— Well, as the chance were, this might take or else 90 Not take my fancy: I might hear his cry, And give the manikin three sound legs for one, Or pluck the other off, leave him like an egg, And lessoned he was mine and merely clay. Were this no pleasure, lying in the thyme, 95 Drinking the mash, with brain become alive, Making and marring clay at will? ...

— Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning • Robert Browning

... satisfactorily as far as Tom was concerned, for Mrs. Church forgot her anger in the interest that the boy's visit gave her. She consulted him about her fowls, and gave him a new-laid egg to slip into his pocket for his own supper. Later on she allowed him to munch some very poor and very stale plumcake. Finally she gave him his heart's delight, for he was allowed to peer into the old microscope and revel in ...

— The Rebel of the School • Mrs. L. T. Meade

... has laid the egg of a new dynasty and realizes the magnitude of the event. She is giving notice in the usual way. You notice I am improving in the construction of hens. At first I made them too much like other animals, ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... muley steer is one of the most powerful blows delivered by any animal. For this reason, no bull with horns is a match for a muley. The driving power of sixteen hundred pounds of bone and muscle is like the ram of a ship. Striking a horse fair, it would stave him in as one breaks an egg shell. Jud leaned down from his horse and struck the bull on the nose with his fist, beating him in the nostrils. The bull turned and charged the cattle behind him. We crowded against him, using the mad bull for a ...

— Dwellers in the Hills • Melville Davisson Post

... BRAVO. And prithee let it be as full of meat as an egg; for we do many deeds, love ...

— Count Alarcos - A Tragedy • Benjamin Disraeli

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