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 vain Discourse, more Noise then Sense.

EN

Ends, Aim, Design, Drift, and variously used in composition as, Candle-ends, Ends of gold and silver, Shreds of either. Cable-ends, finger-ends for extremity or utmost part of either. Tis good to make both Ends meet, or to cut your Coat according to your Cloth. Every thing has an End, and a Pudding has two.

English-cane, an oaken Plant,

English Manufacture, Ale, Beer, or Syder.

Ensnaring Questions Interrogatories laid to trap and catch one.

Entries, where the Deer have lately passed the thickets.

EP

Epicure-an, one that that indulges himself, nice of Palate, very curious and a critick in eating.

EQ

Equip, c. to furnish one.

Equipt, c. rich; also having new Clothes. ''Well equipt'', c. plump in the Pocket, or very full of Money; also very well drest. The Cull equipt me with a brace of Meggs, c. the Gentleman furnish'd me with a couple of Guineas.

ER

Eriffs, Canary-birds two years old.

EV

Evasion, a Shift, sly or indirect Answer.

Eves-drop, to be an

Eves-dropper, one that skulks, lurks at or lies under his Neighbor's Window or Door.

EW

Ewe or the White Ewe,