egg
8 definitions found
egg - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Gamete \Gam"ete\ (g[a^]m"[=e]t; g[.a]*m[=e]t"; the latter
usually in compounds), n. [Gr. gameth` wife, or game`ths
husband, fr. gamei^n to marry.] (Biol.)
A sexual cell or germ cell having a single set of unpaired
chromosomes; a conjugating cell which unites with another of
like or unlike character to form a new individual. In Bot.,
gamete designates esp. the similar sex cells of the lower
thallophytes which unite by conjugation, forming a zygospore.
The gametes of higher plants are of two sorts, sperm (male)
and egg (female); their union is called fertilization, and
the resulting zygote an oospore. In Zool., gamete is most
commonly used of the sexual cells of certain Protozoa, though
also extended to the germ cells of higher forms.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Egg \Egg\ ([e^]g), n. [OE., fr. Icel. egg; akin to AS. [ae]g
(whence OE. ey), Sw. [aum]gg, Dan. [ae]g, G. & D. ei, and
prob. to OSlav. aje, jaje, L. ovum, Gr. 'w,o`n, Ir. ugh,
Gael. ubh, and perh. to L. avis bird. Cf. Oval.]
1. (Popularly) The oval or roundish body laid by domestic
poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a
yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and
inclosed in a shell or strong membrane.
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2. (Biol.) A simple cell, from the development of which the
young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell.
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3. Anything resembling an egg in form.
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Note: Egg is used adjectively, or as the first part of
self-explaining compounds; as, egg beater or
egg-beater, egg case, egg ladle, egg-shaped, etc.
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Egg and anchor (Arch.), see egg-and-dart in the
vocabulary, below; -- called also egg and dart, and egg and tongue
. See Anchor, n., 5. --Ogilvie.
Egg cleavage (Biol.), a process of cleavage or
segmentation, by which the egg undergoes endogenous
division with formation of a mass of nearly similar cells,
from the growth and differentiation of which the new
organism is ultimately formed. See Segmentation of the ovum
, under Segmentation.
Egg development (Biol.), the process of the development of
an egg, by which the embryo is formed.
Egg mite (Zo["o]l.), any mite which devours the eggs of
insects, as Nothrus ovivorus, which destroys those of
the canker worm.
Egg parasite (Zo["o]l.), any small hymenopterous insect,
which, in the larval stage, lives within the eggs of other
insects. Many genera and species are known.
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Egg \Egg\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Egged; p. pr. & vb. n.
Egging.] [OE. eggen, Icel. eggja, fr. egg edge. ??. See
Edge.]
To urge on; to instigate; to incite?
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Adam and Eve he egged to ill. --Piers
Plowman.
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[She] did egg him on to tell
How fair she was. --Warner.
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egg - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
egg
n 1: animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo
together with nutritive and protective envelopes;
especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g.
female birds
2: oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as
food [syn: egg, eggs]
3: one of the two male reproductive glands that produce
spermatozoa and secrete androgens; "she kicked him in the
balls and got away" [syn: testis, testicle, orchis,
ball, ballock, bollock, nut, egg]
v 1: throw eggs at
2: coat with beaten egg; "egg a schnitzel"
egg - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :
egg
n.
The binary code that is the payload for buffer overflow and format
string attacks. Typically, an egg written in assembly and designed to
enable remote access or escalate privileges from an ordinary user
account to administrator level when it hatches. Also known as
shellcode.
The name comes from a particular buffer-overflow exploit that was
co-written by a cracker named eggplant. The variable name `egg' was
used to store the payload. The usage spread from people who saw and
analyzed the code.
egg - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :
EGG
Elektronischer Geschaeftsverkehr-Gesetz Germany
egg - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :
Egg
(Heb. beytsah, "whiteness"). Eggs deserted (Isa. 10:14), of a
bird (Deut. 22:6), an ostrich (Job 39:14), the cockatrice (Isa.
59:5). In Luke 11:12, an egg is contrasted with a scorpion,
which is said to be very like an egg in its appearance, so much
so as to be with difficulty at times distinguished from it. In
Job 6:6 ("the white of an egg") the word for egg (hallamuth')
occurs nowhere else. It has been translated "purslain" (R.V.
marg.), and the whole phrase "purslain-broth", i.e., broth made
of that herb, proverbial for its insipidity; and hence an
insipid discourse. Job applies this expression to the speech of
Eliphaz as being insipid and dull. But the common rendering,
"the white of an egg", may be satisfactorily maintained.
egg - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "egg":
Anlage, albumen, boiled eggs, bud, caviar, coddled eggs,
deviled eggs, dropped eggs, egg cell, egg white, eggs, eggshell,
embryo, female gamete, fish eggs, fried eggs, germ, germen, glair,
loins, nucleus, omelet, ooecium, ovicell, ovule, ovum,
poached eggs, roe, rudiment, scrambled eggs, seed, shirred eggs,
souffle, spawn, spermatozoon, stirp, stuffed eggs, vitellus, white,
yellow, yolk
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