EKE
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Eke (&ē;k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Eking.] [AS. &ē;kan, &ymacr_;kan; akin to OFries, &ā;ka, OS. &unr_;kian, OHG. ouhh&ō;n to add, Icel. auka to increase, Sw. &ö;ka, Dan. &ö;ge, Goth. aukan, L. augere, Skr. &unr_;jas strength, ugra mighty, and probably to English wax, v. i. Cf. Augment, Nickname.] 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. “To eke my pain.” Spenser.
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He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds.
Macaulay.
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Eke, adv. [AS. eác; akin to OFries. ák, OS. &unr_;k, D. &unr_;ok, OHG. ouh, G. auch, Icel. auk, Sw. och and, Dan. og, Goth. auk for, but. Prob. from the preceding verb.] In addition; also; likewise. [Obs. or Archaic]
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'T will be prodigious hard to prove
That this is eke the throne of love.
Prior.
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A trainband captain eke was he
Of famous London town.
Cowper.
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&hand_; Eke serves less to unite than to render prominent a subjoined more important sentence or notion. M&ä;tzner.
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Eke, n. An addition. [R.]
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Clumsy ekes that may well be spared.
Geddes.
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