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Pronunciation : Eke
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [AS. ekan, ykan; akin to OFries, aka, OS. , OHG. ouhhon to add, Icel. auka to increase, Sw. ?ka, Dan. ?ge, Goth. aukan, L. augere, Skr. strength, ugra mighty, and probably to English wax, v. i. Cf. Augment, Nickname.]
Definition : Defn: 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. He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds. Macaulay.

t. [imp. & p. p. Eked; p. pr. & vb. n. Eking.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Eke
Part of Speech : adv.
Etymology : [AS. e?c; akin to OFries. ?k, OS. , D. , OHG. ouh, G. auch, Icel. auk, Sw. och and, Dan. og, Goth. auk for, but. Prob. from the preceding verb.]
Definition : Defn: In addition; also; likewise. [Obs. or Archaic] 'T will be prodigious hard to prove That this is eke the throne of love. Prior. A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. Cowper.

Note: Eke serves less to unite than to render prominent a subjoined more important sentence or notion. M?tzner.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Eke
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: An addition. [R.] Clumsy ekes that may well be spared. Geddes.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913