transitive verb. To encourage or incite to action. Used with on:

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noun. A female gamete; an ovum.

noun. The round or oval female reproductive body of various animals, including birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, and insects, consisting usually of an embryo surrounded by nutrient material and a protective covering.

noun. The oval, thin-shelled reproductive body of a bird, especially that of a hen, used as food.

noun. Something having the ovoid shape of an egg.

noun. A fellow; a person.

transitive verb. To cover with beaten egg, as in cooking.

transitive verb. To throw eggs at.

idiom. (egg on (one's) face) Embarrassment; humiliation.

idiom. (lay an egg) To fail, especially in a public performance.

idiom. (put/have) To risk everything on a single venture.

noun. In cricket, no score; zero; a duck's egg.

To incite or urge; encourage; instigate; provoke: now nearly always with on.

To apply eggs to; cover or mix with eggs, as cutlets, fish, bread, etc., in cooking.

To pelt with eggs.

noun. The body formed in the females of all animals (with the exception of a few of the lowest type, which are reproduced by gemmation or division), in which, by impregnation, the development of the fetus takes place; an ovum, ovule, or egg-cell; the procreative product of the female, corresponding to the sperm, sperm-cell, or spermatozoön of the male.

noun. Something like or likened to an egg in shape.

noun. [The egg was used by the early Christians as a symbol of the hope of the resurrection. The use of eggs at Easter has, doubtless, reference to the same idea. Eggs of marble have been found in the tombs of early Christians.]

noun. The oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the “white” or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane.

noun. A simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell.

noun. Anything resembling an egg in form.

noun. see egg-and-dart in the vocabulary, below; -- called also egg and dart, and egg and tongue. See Anchor, n., 5.

noun. a process of cleavage or segmentation, by which the egg undergoes endogenous division with formation of a mass of nearly similar cells, from the growth and differentiation of which the new organism is ultimately formed. See Segmentation of the ovum, under Segmentation.

noun. the process of the development of an egg, by which the embryo is formed.

noun. any mite which devours the eggs of insects, as Nothrus ovivorus, which destroys those of the canker worm.

noun. any small hymenopterous insect, which, in the larval stage, lives within the eggs of other insects. Many genera and species are known.

transitive verb. To urge on; to instigate; to incite�

verb. To encourage, incite.

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

noun. The egg of a domestic fowl as an item of food.

noun. The contents of one or more (hen's usually) eggs as a culinary ingredient, etc.

noun. The female primary cell, the ovum.

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

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

noun. , (potentially offensive) A person of Caucasian (Western) ancestry, who has a strong desire to learn about and immerse him- or herself in East Asian culture, and/or such a person who is perceived as behaving as if he or she were Asian (from the "white" outside and "yellow" inside).

noun. (pejorative) A foolish or obnoxious person.

noun. In terms such as good egg, bad egg, tough egg etc., a person, fellow.

verb. To throw eggs at.

verb. To dip in or coat with beaten egg (cooking).

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

noun. one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens

noun. oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food

noun. animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds

verb. throw eggs at

verb. coat with beaten egg