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wind egg
a. The (more or less) spheroidal body produced by the female of birds and other animal species, and containing the germ of a new individual, enclosed within a shell or firm membrane. addle egg, wind egg: see those words.
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a1000 Boeth. Metr. xx. 169 On æge bið gioleca on middan.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 156 Wiþ þon þe hær ne weaxe æmettan ægru genim.
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 36 Kimeð þe kaue..& reaueð hire hire eairen [a1250 Nero eiren].
c1300 K. Alis. 568 A faukon..An ay he laide..That feol the kyng Phelip nygh.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 343 Many other briddes Hudden..her egges..In mareys.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. lix. 5 The eiren of edderes thei to-breeken.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xxviii. 106 Anoþere birde..laborithe..to infecte hir nest or hir eyren.
c1450 Two Cookery-bks. (1888) 82 And then make faire bater of rawe yolkes of eron.
1486 Bk. St. Albans A ij a To speke of hawkis fro an eeg to thei be habull to be takene.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxxix. 13 The Estrich..when he hath layed his egges vpon the grounde, he bredeth them in the dust.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 32 Thinke him as a Serpents egge . View more context for this quotation
1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 48 Improperly that is an egg out of the whole whereof a living creature is bred, as the eggs of Spiders, Ants, Flies.
1747 W. Gould Acct. Eng. Ants 32 A Queen..in a Box..will in a few Days deposit some Eggs, unless she had laid before you took her.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 339 The numerous brood of [turtles'] eggs are..buried in the warm sands of the shore.
1851 W. B. Carpenter Man. Physiol. 95 The eggs of the Slug, when dried up by the sun or by artificial heat..are found not to have lost their fertility.
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