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▪ I. † eche, n.1 Obs. rare.
[? var. of eke addition; or f. eche v.]
A piece added (e.g. to a bellrope). Cf. eke n.
1525Churchw. Acc. St. Dunstan's, Canterb., For ij ropes for eches for the bell ropys. For a eche to the gret bell jd.
▪ II. † eche, n.2 Obs. rare.
[app. ad. OF. esche, aiche tinder:—L. esca bait.]
A taper.
1546Bale Eng. Votaries ii. (1550) 52 [Women] that gaue aultre clothes and towels, waxe candels and eches, masse grotes and trentals. Ibid. 84 b, They toke of these sea crabbes, and tyed eches vnto them light.
▪ III. † eche, a. Obs.
Forms 1 ǽce, 1–2 éce, 2 ech, ache, 2–3 eche.
[OE. ǽce, éce, repr. OTeut. *aiwokjo-, f. *aiwo(m= L. ævum age (see a adv., ay); cf. Goth. ajuk (:—*aiwoko-) in ajukduþs eternity.]
Everlasting, eternal. Also quasi-n. in phrase in eche.
c825Vesp. Psalter cxi[i]. 7[6] In ᵹemynde æcre bið se rehtwisa. 837Kentish Charter in Sweet O.E. Texts (1885) 449 Ðæt mon agefe ðæt lond inn hiᵹum to heora beode him to brucanne on ece ærfe. a1000Riddles (Gr.) xli. 1 Ece is se scyppend. c1175Cott. Hom. 239 Witeð into ece fer. a1200Moral Ode 364 in Trin. Coll. Hom. 231 God one sal ben ache lif, and blisse..and ache reste. a1225Juliana 79 Iheiet beo he him ane as he wes and is eauer in eche. a1250Owl & Night. 1277 Ah eavreeuh thing that eche nis A-gon schal and al this worldes blis.
▪ IV. † eche, v. Obs.
Forms: 1 íecan, ícan, ýcan, écan (also with prefix ᵹe-), 2–3 echen, 4–7 eche, eech(e, 6 etche, eatch, 7 each, ich. See also eke v.
[repr. OE. écan, in WS. íecan wk. vb. = OS. ôkian:—OTeut. *aukjan (cf. OHG. auhhôn :—*aukôjan), f. *auk-an str. vb. (ON. auka, Goth. aukan; elsewhere only in pa. pple. OE. éacen, OS. ôkan) to increase, cogn. w. L. augēre, Gr. αὐξάνειν to increase.]
1. trans. To enlarge, augment, increase.
a1000Andreas 1386 (Gr.) Ðu scealt ecan ðine yrmþu. c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 208 Gif him fefer ne sie, yc þæt mid wine. c1175Lamb. Hom. 103 He..his sunnen echeð. a1225Ancr. R. 44 God ou echeð furðre his deorewurðe grace. a1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 1460 God might not oo poynt of my joyes eche. 1530Palsgr. 531/1, I etche, I increase a thynge, Je augmente. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. iii. ii. 23 To peize the time, To ich [Qo. 2, 3, 4 ech and eech] and to draw it out in length. 1608― Per. iii. Prol. 13 Time..with your fine fancies quaintly eche [rime-wd. speech].
b. with out = eke out.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, iii. Prol. 35 Still be kind, And eech out our performance with your mind. 1655Francion i. iii. 63 He had such a full Character eech'd out with long Cloak⁓bag-string dashes, etc.
2. To add (something) to.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke xii. 25 Hwylc eower mæᵹ þencende ican [c 950 Lindisf. and c 975Rushw. ᵹe-ece; c 1160Hatton echan] ane elne to his anlicnesse? 1382Wyclif Lev. ix. 17 He made brent sacrifice, echynge into the sacrifyce offrynges of licours. c1420Pallad. on Husb. i. 1122 Hardde pitche and wex, take even weight, And herdde with pix liquide herto eche An halven dele.
b. ? To increase (one's) stature. [But possibly a different word; cf. icche.]
1640A. Harsnet God's Summ. 413 Riches cannot..each us one haires breadth neerer heaven.
3. intr. To grow.
1565Golding Ovid's Met. x. (1593) 249 Her bellie big The eatching [L. crescens] tree had overgrowne.
b. Of a ‘pace’: To increase, be quickened.
1644Quarles Sheph. Orac. ix, How each envious pace Vies to be first, and eches for the place. |