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EARNEST . A deposit in part of payment, to bind a bargain.
EARTH BATH . A Grave.
EASY . Make the cull easy or quiet; gag or kill him. As easy as pissing the bed.
EASY VIRTUE . A lady of easy virtue: an impure or prostitute.
EAT . To eat like a beggar man, and wag his under jaw; a jocular reproach to a proud man. To eat one's words; to retract what one has said.
EIGHT EYES . I will knock out two of your eight eyes; a common Billingsgate threat from one fish nymph to another: every woman, according to the naturalists of that society, having eight eyes; viz. two seeing eyes, two bub-eyes, a bell-eye, two pope's eyes, and a ***-eye. He has fallen down and trod upon his eye; said of one who has a black eye.
ELBOW GREASE . Labour. Elbow grease will make an oak table shine.
ELBOW ROOM . Sufficient space to act in. Out at elbows; said of an estate that is mortgaged.
ELBOW SHAKER . A gamester, one who rattles Saint Hugh's bones, i.e. the dice.
ELF . A fairy or hobgoblin, a little man or woman.
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