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,
