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eg(ge
n.(1)
Additional spellings:
egge
36 quotations in 3 senses
Sense / Definition
(a) The edible egg of a domesticated fowl; (b)
glair
or
whit of an egge
, the white of an egg;
oil of egges
, an oil extracted from eggs;
yolk
or
yelk of an eg
; (c)
fried egge
;
hard eg
, an egg roasted…
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