Definition of egg

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Egg (n.) A simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell..

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Spindlelegs :: Spindle-legged (a.) Having long, slender legs..
Apple :: Apple (n.) Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple..
Prog :: Prog (n.) A vagrant beggar; a tramp.
Aspic :: Aspic (n.) A savory meat jelly containing portions of fowl, game, fish, hard boiled eggs, etc..
Rag :: Rag (n.) A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin..
Sticky :: Stick-tight (n.) Beggar's ticks.
Mendicant :: Mendicant (a.) Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars..
Ruck :: Ruck (v. i.) To cower; to huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs..
Boraginaceous :: Boraginaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants (Boraginaceae) which includes the borage, heliotrope, beggar's lice, and many pestiferous plants..
Shell :: Shell (n.) The hard covering of an egg.
Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance; as, the beggar may descend from a prince; a crown descends to the heir..
Scolex :: Scolex (n.) The embryo produced directly from the egg in a metagenetic series, especially the larva of a tapeworm or other parasitic worm. See Illust. of Echinococcus..
Agamic :: Agamic (a.) Produced without sexual union; as, agamic or unfertilized eggs..
Ovum :: Ovum (n.) A more or less spherical and transparent mass of granular protoplasm, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent; an egg, spore, germ, or germ cell. See Illust. of Mycropyle..
Eaglestone :: Eaglestone (n.) A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aetites..
Albumin :: Albumin (n.) A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water and is coagulated by heat and by certain chemical reagents..
Oviparous :: Oviparous (a.) Producing young from rggs; as, an oviparous animal, in which the egg is generally separated from the animal, and hatched after exclusion; -- opposed to viviparous..
Egg-glass :: Egg-glass (n.) A small sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs; also, a small glass for holding an egg, at table..
Leggy :: Leggy (a.) Having long legs.
Hegge :: Hegge (n.) A hedge.
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