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  • endeavor; endeavor best
    [Trin. idem (Winer); cf. US dial, do one's endeavor best to exert oneself to the utmost (old-fash.) DARE; from the
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  • en
    See AIN'T (2).
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  • Empire flowers
    [from their blooming around Empire Day, May 23rd] n. the blossoms of the poinciana tree, Poinciana regia. = MAY-FLOWER TREE,
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  • else-way
    [cf. MCC assways backwards; OED else-wise in some other manner] adv. backwards. (San Sal., Mayag.)
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  • else
    [W Car.; cf. OED else besides, now only poet. or arch.] adv. besides (after nouns as well as indefinite pronouns):
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  • eleven-string
    n. a width of STRAW1 plait woven with eleven strips: This one call eleven string cause that's how we make
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  • eleven o'clock
    [cf. OED eleven o'clock lady different sp.] n. a shrub, Strobilanthes sp., with purple-blue flowers: 1956 (Higgs 3). The flowers
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  • Eleutheria
      [cf. OED Eleutherian from Greek ελεύθερι-ος free + -an, the title of Zeus as protector of political freedom...1623] n. Obs.
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  • Eleuthera bark
     [W3 idem; not in DAE, OED; from the name of the island] n. cascarilla, the aromatic bark of a shrub,
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  • Eleuthera
    Eleuthera, a major island of the Bahamas. See ELEUTHERIA
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