egg

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   coat with beaten egg

   egg a schnitzel

2. 2
   noun

   An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.

   The Eſtrich (whoſe fethers are fayrer thẽ yᵉ wynges of the ſparow hauke) whẽ he hath layd his egges vpon the grounde, he bredeth them in the duſt, and forgetteth them: ſo that they might be troden with feete, or broken with ſomme wilde beaſt.

3. 3
   noun

   Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.

   In the Fall into the division of labor, [Claude] Lévi-Strauss sees the great hunters trading women to create the exogamous bonds of one hunting band with another. The egg is, but the sperm does. The tiny sperm may be furious in its activity, but its highway to the egg is paved by the alkaline trail set down by the Great Mother.

4. 4
   noun

   A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).

   His ſtomacke vvas queaſie (for comming there Coacht) / The jogging had caus’d ſome crudities riſe; / To help it he call’d for a Puritan poacht, / That uſed to turne up the egg’s of his eyes.

5. 5
   noun

   Senses relating to people.

   a bad egg    a good egg    a tough egg    Cheerio, old egg!

6. 6
   noun

   Something regarded as containing a (usually bad) thing at an early stage.

   [S]oe Power of Warre / From the firſt Egge of Libertie, out-Creepes / A fatall Serpent; […]

7. 7
   noun

   One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".

   This approach would be altered for an optimal omelette based exploit. One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.

8. 8
   verb

   To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).

   The angry demonstrators egged the riot police.

Etymology

From Middle English eggen (“to urge on; to entice, incite, lure, tempt; to encourage, exhort, stimulate; (reflexive) to bestir (oneself); to challenge, taunt; to enrage, irritate”), from Old English eggian (“to egg, excite”), from Old Norse eggja (“to incite, egg on”), from egg (“an edge”), from Proto-Germanic *agjō (“a corner; an edge”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”). Cognates * Danish ægge, egge (“to incite, egg on; to excite, rouse”) * Swedish egga (“to excite, egg on”) * Faroese eggja (“to incite, egg on; to sharpen”) * Icelandic eggja (“to incite, egg on”) * Old Eng…