Egg

Quick meaning: Egg is a noun meaning Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.

Meaning

Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.

More Meanings

1. (countable) A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
2. Senses relating to people.
3. Something regarded as containing a (usually bad) thing at an early stage.
4. One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
5. To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
6. To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.
7. An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.

Example Sentences

[T]hinke him as a Serpents egge, / VVhich hatch'd, vvould as his kinde grovv mischieuous; / And kill him in the ſhell.

His ſtomacke vvas queaſie (for comming there Coacht) / The jogging had caus’d ſome crudities riſe; / To help it he call’d for a Puritan poacht, / That uſed to turne up the egg’s of his eyes.

An egg properly is that, out of a part vvhereof a living creature is produced, and the reſidue is meat for it, improperly that is an egg out of the vvhole vvhereof, a living creature is bred, as the eggs of Spiders, Ants, Flies.

The egg is, as we have said, a kind of exposed uterus, and place in which the embryo is fashioned: for it performs the office of the uterus and enfolds the chick until the due time of its exclusion arrive, when the creature is born perfect.

Word Forms

• eggs
• egge
• egging
• egged
• eggest
• eggedst
• eggeth

Synonyms for egg

Depending on context, synonyms include ovum, edge, provoke, tempt, nut, ball.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include testicle, gonad, testis, nut, bollock, ballock.

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