Eke \Eke\ ([=e]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eked ([=e]kt); p. pr. &
vb. n. Eking.] [AS. [=e]kan, [=y]kan; akin to OFries.
[=a]ka, OS. [=o]kian, OHG. ouhh[=o]n to add, Icel. auka to
increase, Sw. ["o]ka, Dan. ["o]ge, Goth. aukan, L. augere,
Skr. [=o]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 \Eke\, adv. [AS. e['a]c; akin to OFries. ['a]k, 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]
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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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Note: Eke serves less to unite than to render prominent a
subjoined more important sentence or notion.
--M[aum]tzner.
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Eke \Eke\, n.
An addition. [R.]
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Clumsy ekes that may well be spared. --Geddes.
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