eke : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: eke	by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Eke \Eke\, adv. [AS. e[a0]c; akin to OFries. [a0]k, OS. [?]k, D. [?]ok, OHG. ouh, G. auch, Icel. auk, Sw. och and, Dan. og, Goth. auk for, but. Prob. from the preceding verb.] In addition; also; likewise. [Obs. or Archaic] 'T will be prodigious hard to prove That this is eke the throne of love. --Prior. A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. --Cowper. Note: Eke serves less to unite than to render prominent a subjoined more important sentence or notion. --M[84]tzner.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Eke \Eke\ ([emac]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Eked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Eking}.] [AS. [c7]kan, [df]kan; akin to OFries, [be]ka, OS. [?]kian, OHG. ouhh[d3]n to add, Icel. auka to increase, Sw. [94]ka, Dan. [94]ge, Goth. aukan, L. augere, Skr. [?]jas strength, ugra mighty, and probably to English wax, v. i. Cf. {Augment}, {Nickname}.] To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed 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. [bd]To eke my pain.[b8] --Spenser. He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds. --Macaulay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Eke \Eke\, n. An addition. [R.] Clumsy ekes that may well be spared. --Geddes.