Definition of eke

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Eke (v. t.) 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..

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Chronometer :: Chronometer (n.) An instrument for measuring time; a timekeeper.
Ercedeken :: Ercedeken (n.) An archdeacon.
Matron :: Matron (n.) A housekeeper; esp., a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital; as, the matron of a school or hospital..
Timekeeper :: Timekeeper (n.) A person who keeps, marks, regulates, or determines the time..
Housework :: Housework (n.) The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like..
Wreke :: Wreke (v. t.) Alt. of Wreek.
Awreke :: Awreke (v. t. & i.) To avenge. [Obs.] See Wreak.
Bekah :: Bekah (n.) Half a shekel.
Bibliotheke :: Bibliotheke (n.) A library.
Jacobaean Lily :: "Jacobaean lily () A bulbous plant (Amaryllis, / Sprekelia, formosissima) from Mexico. It bears a single, large, deep, red, lilylike flower..
Reeked :: Reeked (imp. & p. p.) of Ree.
Timekeeper :: Timekeeper (n.) One appointed to mark and declare the time of participants in races or other contests.
Timekeeper :: Timekeeper (n.) A clock, watch, or other chronometer; a timepiece..
Seke :: Seke (a.) Sick.
Self-seeker :: Self-seeker (n.) One who seeks only his own interest, advantage, or pleasure..
Maneh :: Maneh (n.) A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver..
Provection :: Provection (n.) A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename..
Gamekeeper :: Gamekeeper (n.) One who has the care of game, especially in a park or preserve..
Cheeked :: Cheeked (a.) Having a cheek; -- used in composition.
Cold :: Cold (n.) Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed..
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