earfoð-þrag, st. f., _time full of troubles, sorrowful time_: acc. sg. -þrage, 283. earh, adj., _cowardly_: gen. sg. ne bið swylc earges sîð (_no coward undertaken that_), 2542. earm, st. m., _arm_: acc. sg. earm, 836, 973; wið earm gesät, _supported himself with his arm_, 750; dat. pl. earmum, 513. earm, adj., _poor, miserable, unhappy_: nom. sg. earm, 2369; earme ides, _the unhappy woman_, 1118; dat. sg. earmre teohhe, _the unhappy band_, 2939.--Comp. acc. sg. earmran mannan, _a more wretched, more forsaken man_, 577. earm-beág, st. m., _arm-ring, bracelet_: gen. pl. earm-beága fela searwum gesæled, _many arm-rings interlaced_, 2764. earm-hreád, st. f., _arm-ornament_. nom. pl. earm-hreáde twâ, 1195 (Grein's conjecture, MS. earm reade). earm-lîc, adj., _wretched, miserable_: nom. sg. sceolde his ealdor-gedâl earmlîc wurðan, _his end should be wretched_, 808. earm-sceapen, pret. part. as adj. (_properly, wretched by the decree of fate_), _wretched_: nom. sg. 1352. earn, st. m., _eagle_: dat. sg. earne, 3027. eatol. See atol. eaxl, st. f., _shoulder_: acc. sg. eaxle, 836, 973; dat. sg. on eaxle, 817, 1548; be eaxle, 1538; on eaxle ides gnornode, _the woman sobbed on the shoulder_ (of her son, who has fallen and is being burnt), 1118; dat. pl. sät freán eaxlum neáh, _sat near the shoulders of his lord_ (Beówulf lies lifeless upon the earth, and Wîglâf sits by his side, near his shoulder, so as to sprinkle the face of his dead lord), 2854; he for eaxlum gestôd Deniga freán, _he stood before the shoulders of the lord of the Danes_ (i.e. not directly before him, but somewhat to the side, as etiquette demanded), 358. eaxl-gestealla, w. m., _he who has his position at the shoulder_ (sc. of his lord), _trusty courtier, counsellor of a prince_: nom. sg. 1327; acc. pl. -gesteallan, 1715. EÁ eác, conj., _also_: 97, 388, 433, etc.; êc, 3132. eácen (pret. part. of a not existing eacan, augere), adj., _wide-spread_, _large_: nom. pl. eácne eardas, _broad plains_, 1622.--_great, heavy_: eald sweord eácen, 1664; dat. pl. eácnum ecgum, 2141, both times of the great sword in Grendel's habitation.--_great, mighty, powerful_: äðele and eácen, of Beówulf, 198. eácen-cräftig, adj., _immense_ (of riches), _enormously great_: acc. sg. hord-ärna sum eácen-cräftig, _that enormous treasure-house_, 2281; nom. sg. þät yrfe eácen-cräftig, iúmonna gold, 3052. eádig, adj., _blessed with possessions, rich, happy by reason of property_: nom. sg. wes, þenden þu lifige, äðeling eádig, _be, as long as thou livest, a prince blessed with riches_, 1226; eádig mon, 2471.--Comp. sige-, sigor-, tîr-eádig. eádig-lîce, adv., _in abundance, in joyous plenty_: dreámum lifdon eádiglîce, _lived in rejoicing and plenty_, 100.