Word Finder - egg

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An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, reptiles, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.

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The egg of a domestic fowl (especially a hen) or its contents, used as food.

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I also determine the minimal amount of egg required to make good mayonnaise.

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The female primary cell, the ovum.

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Anything shaped like an egg, such as an Easter egg or a chocolate egg.

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A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, associated with an injury.

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(mildly) A Caucasian who behaves as if they were (East) Asian (from being "white" outside and "yellow" inside).

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A foolish or obnoxious person.

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Shut up, you egg!

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A person, fellow.

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bad egg

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A person who is regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, has not yet come out, or is in the early stages of transitioning.

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One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".

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To throw eggs at.

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To dip in or coat with beaten egg.

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To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.

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After I cut the tubing, I found that I had slightly egged it in the vise.

The egg popped grease and she jumped back.

You.re as tough as an egg dropped from a ten-story building.

The egg fell, and she gasped as it exploded on contact with the floor.

She shrugged and put the egg in the carton.

He shot out of the chair, clawing egg from his face as he lunged toward her.

Her heart was knocking around inside her chest like an egg in a blender.

Each female can produce up to half a million tiny eggs, each containing a globule of oil that makes the egg buoyant.

The development from the egg may be direct, or may take place with an alternation of generations (metagenesis), in which a non-sexual individual, the so-called scyphistoma or scyphopolyp, produces by budding the sexual medusae.

The development of the Trachomedusae, so far as it is known, shows an actinula-stage which is either free (larval) or passed over in the egg (foetal) as in Geryonia; in no case does there appear to be a free planula-stage.

The development of the embryo within the egg takes about three weeks.

After lunch she wanted to use the egg shells to grow cress in - no cress, so they now have basil.

Only a small proportion of these get fertilized, and still fewer ever emerge from the egg.

Its eggs, which are of the size and shape of a dove's egg, are from fifteen to thirty in number, are deposited in mould or under damp leaves, and are glued together into one mass.

His chapter on the flea, in which he not only describes its structure, but traces out the whole history of its metamorphoses from its first emergence from the egg, is full of interest - not so much for the exactness of his observations, as for its incidental revelation of the extraordinary ignorance then prevalent in regard to the origin and propagation of "this minute and despised creature," which some asserted to be produced from sand, others from dust, others from the dung of pigeons, and others from urine, but which he showed to be "endowed with as great perfection in its kind as any large animal," and proved to breed in the regular way of winged insects.

He bought wild lands, took stock in mining companies, desiccated egg companies, patent looms, photo-lithographic companies, gave away profusely, lent to plausible rascals, and was the ready prey of every new inventor who chanced to find him with money or with property that he could readily convert into money.

Among these is the so-called Egg of Nuremberg, a watch made about 150o by Peter Henlein.

As regards the mode of production of galls, the most important distinction is between galls that result from the introduction of an egg, or other matter, into the interior of the plant, and those that are due to an agent acting externally, the gall in the latter case frequently growing in such a manner as ultimately to enclose its producers.

The embryo passes through three stages - (I) still enclosed within the egg and living on its own yolk; (2) free, within the vitelline mass, which is directly swallowed by the mouth; (3) there is no more vitelline mass, but the embryo is possessed of long external gills, which serve for an exchange of nutritive fluid through the maternal uterus, these gills functioning in the same way as the chorionic villi of the mammalian egg.

But in a few European and North American species, and in a great many inhabitants of the tropics, the egg is large and a considerable portion of it persists for a long time as a yolk-sac. Although the segmentation is always complete, it is very irregular in these types, some of which make a distinct approach to the meroblastic egg.

There is a condition known a polycystic ovary, which is a hormonal disorder where the cyst fails to produce an egg.

Due to egg stimulation and fertilization research, the world's first test tube triplets were born in Adelaide, Australia.

The person will be waiting for you to crack open the third egg and hand over the cash.

Instead, you inform your victim that you won't be cracking open the third egg, and that your deal was for three eggs.

In 1905 an art pottery was established for making "crystal patina" and "robin's egg blue" wares, in imitation, to a certain extent, of old oriental pottery, and Clifton India ware, in imitation of pottery made by the American Indians.

The motto which was already current in his lifetime, "that Erasmus laid the egg and Luther hatched it," is so far true, and no more.

The exciting cause of the hypertrophy, in the case of the typical galls, appears to be a minute quantity of some irritating fluid, or virus, secreted by the female insect, and deposited with her egg in the puncture made by her ovipositor in the cortical or foliaceous parts of plants.

Lichtenstein has established the fact that from the egg of the Aphis of Pistachio galls, Anopleura lentisci, is hatched an apterous insect (the gall-founder), which gives birth to young Aphides (emigrants), and that these, having acquired wings, fly to the roots of certain grasses (Bromus sterilis and Hordeum vulgare), and by budding underground give rise to several generations of apterous insects, whence finally comes a winged brood (the pupifera).

In the development of the Hydrozoa, and indeed of the Cnidaria generally, the egg usually gives rise to an oval larva which swims about by means of a coating of cilia on the surface of the body.

The treatment is washing out the stomach or giving emetics followed by vinegar or lemon juice and later oil and white of egg.

In a few days, or at most a fortnight, after a rainfall numberless specimens of these sizes were found swimming about, " and as not a single one was to be found in the water-pools prior to the rain, these must have been developed from the egg."

The young usually pass through several stages of development after leaving the egg, and this commonly after, even long after, the egg has left the maternal shell.

Naultinus elegans of New Zealand is said to be viviparous; the others lay but one rather large egg at a time.

They bring forth only one large egg at a time, but probably breed several times during the season.

The fruit is about the size of a small hen's egg, and within its fibrous rind is the seed or so-called nut, the albumen of which is very hard and has a prettily mottled grey and brown appearance.

Medusae, when they reproduce themselves by budding, always produce medusae, but when they reproduce by the sexual method the embryos produced from the egg grow into medusae in some cases, in other cases into polyps which bud medusae in their turn.

The egg is holoblastic, but the segmentation is very unequal, recalling that of marine annelids and of molluscs.

The value of the poultry and egg product of 1899 was $1,824,399, which was more than twice that of the cereals and nearly one-third of that of the hay and forage.

Cardboard fillers are used which provide a separate compartment for each egg.

All over the world shearwaters seem to have precisely the same habits, laying their single purely white egg in a hole under ground.

Each egg is contained in a separate, curiously formed, seed-like capsule, provided with a lid which is raised to allow the escape of the newly-hatched insect.

Now such a gametic (egg or sperm) constitution can only result when two individuals, all or some of whose gametes are pure with regard to the character albinism, meet in fertilization.

The Bella Coola Indians say the soul is a bird enclosed in an egg and lives in the nape of the neck.

If however the bird flies away, egg and all, then he faints or loses his reason.

Some cuckoos are singular for their habit of using the nests of smaller birds to lay their eggs in, so that the young may be reared by foster-parents; and it has been suggested that the object of the likeness exhibited to the hawk is to enable the cock cuckoo either to frighten the small birds away from their nests or to lure them in pursuit of him, while the hen bird quietly and without molestation disposes of her egg.

The drongo is a fierce and powerful bird which will not tolerate a strange bird of the size of a cuckoo near its nest, yet on account of its resemblance to the drongo, the hen cuckoo is enabled, it has been claimed, to lay her egg in the nest of the drongo, which mistakes the cuckoo for one of its own kind.

But little can be done in the northern states except to prepare manure, and get sashes, tools, &c., in working order; but in sections of the country where there is little or no frost the hardier kinds of seeds and plants may be sown and planted, such as asparagus, cabbage, cauliflower, carrot, leek, lettuce, onion, parsnip, peas, spinach, turnip, &c. In any section where these seeds can be sown in open ground, it is an indication that hotbeds may be started for the sowing of such tender vegetables as tomatoes, egg and pepper plants, &c.; though, unless in the extreme southern states, hotbeds should not be started before the beginning or middle of February.

Any who expect to get early cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce or radishes, while planting or sowing is delayed until the time of sowing tomato and egg plant in May, are sure to be disappointed of a full crop. Frequent rotation of crops should be practised in the vegetable garden, in order to head off insects and diseases; and also to make the best use of the land.

Hoe deeply all transplanted crops, such as cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, &c. Tender vegetables, such as tomatoes, egg and pepper plants, sweet potatoes, &c., can be planted out.

Nevertheless, the Romans cultivated large numbers of plums. The cultivated forms are extremely numerous, some of the groups, such as the greengages, the damsons, and the egg plums being very distinct, and sometimes reproducing themselves from seed.

The colour of the fruit varies from green to deep purple, the size from that of a small cherry to that of a hen's egg; the form is oblong acute or obtuse at both ends, or globular; the stones or kernels vary in like manner; and the flavour, season of ripening and duration are all subject to variation.