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addition, increase
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  • Ðonne ys ðis se eáca on landum ðæt hé hæfð of his ágenum ðæt mynster mid gegódod,

      C. D. iv. 274, 32.
  • Hwæt se eáca is ðe ic geunnen hæbbe,

      51, 23.
  • Nán nis swá welig ꝥ hé sumes eácan ne þurfe,

      Bt. 33, 1; F. 120, 16.
  • Seó gnornung is mé eald for gewunan, níwe for (þurh,

    v. l.) eácan (per augmentum ),

      Gr. D. 4, 9.
  • Eácan au(g)menta, Kent. Gl. 66. I a. addition to something :-- Tó eácan mínum sáre

    in augmentum mei doloris,

      Gr. D. 6, 20.
  • Ic fíftýne geár þé tó fyrste lǽte ðínum dagum tó eácan,

      Hml. S. 18, 429.
  • Þæt gástlicum mægenum gearwige eácen (

    incrementum

    ),
      Scint. 209, 12.
  • Ǽnigne eácan tó úrum friðgildum, Ll. Th. i. 238, 16. I b.

    increase

    of something :-- Þæt hé his ǽwe healde and álýfedlíce for folces eácan bearn gestreóne,
      Hml. Th. ii. 94, 20: Ælfc. Gen. Thw. 2, 6.
  • Melu on swefnum handlian eácan ceápas getácnað,

      Lch. iii. 204, 4, 31.
  • I c. in various special applications,
increase of goods
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  • Wylspring on húse his gesihð beón geopenad eácan oððe blisse getácnað,

      Lch. iii. 204, 16.
a reinforcement to an army
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  • Him cóm micel eáca tó ǽgþer ge of Eást-Englum ge of Norbhymbrum,

      Chr. 894; P. 87, 11.
additional words, a supplement, appendix
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  • Swíðe ryhtlíce wæs se eáca ðǽr tó gedón, ðá mon cuæð: 'Wyrceað fæsten ymb ðá burg,' Past. 163, 4.
  • Hér is git óþer wel gód eáca,

      Wlfst. 180, 1.
a suffixed particle
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  • Þrý eácan synd

    met, pte, ce,

      Ælfc. Gr. Z. 107, 3.
something in excess, overplus
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  • In þǽre tócnáwnesse ǽgðres gedáles weaxeþ se éca (cumulus) þæs edleánes, Gr. D. 311, 12. II a. with numbers,

    more

    :-- Ehta fóta and lytel eáca,
      Lch. ii. 218, 24.
  • Ymb vii c wintra and ymb lytelne eácon,

      Ors. 6, 1; S. 252, 20.
  • Hé ofslóh án hund þúsend manna and hundeahtatig ðúsend and sumne eácan ðǽrtó,

      Hml. S. 18, 404.
Etymology
[v. N. E. D. eke; sb. Icel. auki.]
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v. æt-, mann-eáca; tó-eácan.
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