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160 Easy. Feeble minded. Silly. Eaving. See Heaving. Edge on. To egg on, to incite. Eggy-hot, or Egg-hot. Hot beer with eggs, and sugar beaten up. Sometimes flavoured with rum. Ekky-mowl. The titmouse. Elbow-crookin. Tippling. Elbow grease. Work or labour in doing a thing well. " Give it more elbow grease." Elecompanie. A tomtit. PolwheU. Element. The atmosphere, the sky. EUeck. The gurnard. Trigla cuculus. c. See lUek. Emmut- In the eye of the wind, i.e., in the emmut (or brunt) of it. PolwheU. Empidenter. More impudent. ^^He's moar empi- denter then I caan suffer. Ena, mena, out. A row of children stood facing another child, and the latter, pointing to each in succession, said these words in an ordinary voice, except the word " out," which was shouted. " Ena, mena, mona, mite, Bascalora, bora, bite, Hugga, bucca, bau ; Eggs, butter, cheese, bread, Stick, stock, stone dead, — Out."