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Eggs

noun

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

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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"Eggs" Quotes from Famous Books

... with his eyes on fifteen-year-old Peggy's delicate face, as, wearing her braids pinned up on her head and a pinafore down to her toes, she stoned raisins and blanched almonds, rolled bread crumbs and beat eggs, dusted and polished and ...

— The Children's Book of Christmas Stories • Various

... which the nature of things will not suffer, that everything is not in its own kind of that character of which it really is? and that there is a conformity without any difference whatever in two or more things; so that eggs are entirely like eggs, and bees like bees? What then are you contending for? or what do you seek to gain by talking about twins? For it is granted that they are alike; and you might be content with that. But you try to make them out to be actually the same, and ...

— The Academic Questions • M. T. Cicero

... beef reaches the edge of the herd, this horse swells up and his eyes pop out like door-knobs. You can feel every muscle in him become as rigid as ropes, and he touches the ground as if he was walking on eggs. Look at him now; goes poking along as if he ...

— Wells Brothers • Andy Adams

... and Ling Chen-tzu opened the cage. The bird of golden plumage had a sonorous voice and majestic bearing. "This bird," he said, "lays eggs which hatch out nestlings with red combs, who answer him every morning when he starts crowing. He is usually called the cock of heaven, and the cocks down here which crow morning and evening are descendants ...

— Myths and Legends of China • E. T. C. Werner

... had not yet viewed from any closer point than their own windows. So one afternoon they went, the miller being one of the party. The villagers were by this time driving a roaring trade with the soldiers, who purchased of them every description of garden produce, milk, butter, and eggs at liberal prices. The figures of these rural sutlers could be seen creeping up the slopes, laden like bees, to a spot in the rear of the camp, where there was a kind of market- place ...

— The Trumpet-Major • Thomas Hardy

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