Eke , n. An addition. [R.]
Clumsy
ekes that may well be spared.
Geddes.
Eke , adv. [AS. eác; akin to OFries. ák, OS. &?;k, D. &?;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]
'T will be prodigious hard to prove
That this is eke the throne of love.
Prior. A trainband captain eke was he
Of famous London town.
Cowper. &fist; Eke serves less to unite
than to render prominent a subjoined more important sentence or notion. Mätzner.
Eke (ēk), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eked (?); p.
pr. & vb. n. Eking.]
[AS. ēkan, &ymacr;kan; akin to OFries, āka, OS. &?;kian, OHG. ouhhōn to add,
Icel. auka to increase, Sw. öka, Dan. öge, Goth. aukan, L. augere,
Skr. &?;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.
He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty
pounds.
Macaulay.
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