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▪ I. eft, n.1|ɛft|
Forms: 1 efeta, -e, 2–4 euete, 2–7 evete, 4 auete, 4–6 ewt(e, (5 eefte, 6 ewft, euit), 6–8 euet, (8 eff, 9 dial. effet, evvet), 7– eft. See also newt.
[OE. efeta, of unknown origin. The form newt (a newt corruptly for an ewt) is more frequent in literary use, and in some dialects has superseded the older form.]
A small lizard or lizard-like animal. Now (like newt) chiefly applied to the Greater Water-Newt (Triton cristatus) and to the Smooth Newt (Lophinus punctatus), of the order Salamandridæ.
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 122 Lacerta uel stilio, efete. a1100Voc. ibid. 321 Lacerta, efeta. a1200Moral Ode 273 in Cott. Hom. 177 Þeor beð naddren and snaken, eueten and frude. c1300K. Alis. 6126 Evetis, and snakes, and paddokes brode. 1388Wyclif Prov. xxx. 28 An euete enforsith with hondis, and dwelleth in the housis of kingis. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xii. xxix. (Tollem. MS.), Venimouse bestes and auetes [1535 lisardes]. c1400Mandeville v. 61 In that Abbeye ne entrethe not no Flye ne Todes ne Ewtes. 1480Caxton Descr. Brit. 48 Eeftes that doon none harme. 1572J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 52 b, [The Cameleon] beyng like to y⊇ Ewte in the bodye. 1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 315 All things that breede in the mudde are not Euets. 1613W. Browne Brit. Past. i. ii, May never euet, nor the toade, Within thy banks make their abode. 1679Plot Staffordsh. (1686) 251 Animals somewhat like Evets or Newts. 1750W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman iii. ii. 79 (E.D.S.) Eff, an eft. 1763Churchill Proph. Fam. Poems I. 112 In quest of food, Efts strove in vain to crawl. 1800J. Hurdis Favorite Vill. 153 Wriggles the viper and the basking eft. 1875Parish Sussex Gloss., Effet, a newt or eft. 1876A. B. Buckley Short Hist. Nat. Sc. xxiv. 201 Aquatic salamanders, which resemble our newts or efts. 1878Besant & Rice Celia's Arbour I. xiv. 195 We used to hunt as boys for..the little evvet, the alligator of Great Britain.
▪ II. † eft, n.2 Obs. rare.
[Of obscure origin; cf. OE. æfest, æfst, malice, which freq. occurs in connexion with níð.]
? Malice.
c1325Metr. Hom. 35 Jowes havis eft and nithe At me for the ferlikes that I kithe. Ibid. 125 Eft and nythe and felonny.
▪ III. † eft, a. Obs. rare—1.
In 6 superl. eftest.
[? A blunder ascribed to Dogberry; but it is not clear what word is alluded to.]
? Ready, convenient.
1599Shakes. Much Ado iv. ii. 38 Yea, marry, that's the eftest way.
▪ IV. † eft, adv. Obs. or arch.|ɛft|
Also 3–5 efte, (3 heft, Orm. efft).
[OE. ęft = OS., OFris. eft, ON. eptir, eftir, eft:—OTeut. *aftiz adv. compar. deg., f. stem aft: see aft. Cf. OE. lęng, compar. deg. of lang, long adv.]
1. A second time, again; back.
c825Vesp. Psalter lxx[i]. 20 Of neolnisse eorðan eft ðu alædes mec. c1000ælfric Gen. viii. 10 Noe..asende ut eft culfran. c1200Ormin 16638 Hu maȝȝ ald mann ben borenn efft. c1205Lay. 15081 Nu was Vortigerne æft [c 1275 heft] king. a1300Cursor M. 24403 He cried ans and eft. 1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 105 Ontille Inglond eft he turned ouer þe se. c1386Chaucer Man of Law's T. 694 Eft were his lettres stolen everichon. c1420Pallad. on Husb. xii. 267 Again the goode [chestnuts] under gravel be do, and tried efte and thries preve hem so. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie (Arb.) 160 Many a word yfalne shall eft arise. 1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 145 Hee..vanished eft away.
b. eft and eft: again and again. eft{ddd}eft: first{ddd}then.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xvi. 145 Ȝif hym eft and eft euere at his neede. c1420Pallad. on Husb. i. 416 And as it drieth, efte and efte it dight. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. clxxviii. 1108 Eft at one side and eft a tother.
2. Indicating sequence or transition in discourse: Again, moreover, likewise.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xviii. 19 Eft [c 950 Lindisf. eft sona] ic eow secᵹe. c1175Lamb. Hom. 107 Ne eft he ne mei on his welan..modegian. 1340Ayenb. 133 Yet eft þer is a stape huerinne is þe uolle of perfection of þise uirtue. 1432–50tr. Higden (1865) I. 327 Meny nyȝtes in þe somer..þe sonne goþ nouȝt doun..and eft as many dayes in þe wynter..the sonne ariseþ nouȝt. 1533Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 13 §12 It is efte declared by this presente acte, that, etc. 1651Gataker Ridley in Fuller Abel Rediv. 195 It pleasing God eft..to imprint in the face..a living portraiture of those endowments.
3. Afterwards.
O.E. Chron. an. 685 (Parker MS.) Þone [sc. Mul] mon eft on Cent forbærnde. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 85 Sume men leden erest iuel liflode, and turnen eft to god. c1325E.E. Allit. P. A. 332 He hit schal efte with tenez tyne. 1430Lydg. Chron. Troy i. vii, First with right make our selfe strong; And efte our force manly for to shewe, Of knyghtes chose taken out a fewe. 1528More Heresyes iv. Wks. 269/2 Dauid fell..fyrst in aduoutrie & eft in manslaughter. a1559Cavill in Mir. Mag. (1563) B 2 b, Whom fortune brought to boote and efte to bale.
b. with never, if ever.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 49 He ualleð in to helle pine þer neuer eft ne cumeð of bote. c1230Hali Meid. 11 Beo ha eanes fulliche forcoruen ne spruteð ha neauer eft. c1314Guy Warw. (A.) 2776 Ȝif þou haue euer eft nede to me. c1325Seven Sag. (P.) 302 Hys hert scholde to-breke, Ne schold he never eft more speke. 1513Douglas æneis ii. xii. [xi.] 99 Neuir syne with ene saw I hir eft.
4. Comb. eft-sithe v. (in 2 eftsíðian) to return; eft-sith, -sithes adv., another time, once more; also, from time to time, often (cf. oftesithes). Also eftsoons.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 119 Þet ure saule moten eft-siðian to him. a1300Cursor M. 1901 Noe..sent þe dofe eftsith. a1547Earl of Surrey æneid ii. 588 Which way eft-sithes..Andromache alone Resorted to the parents of her make. 1875Whitby Gloss. (E.D.S.), Eftsith, often. |