Verb

(en-verb)

* ... for let our finger ake , / And it endues our other heathfull members — Othello (Quarto 1), Shakespeare, 1622

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Verb

(ek)

To increase; to add to, augment, lengthen.

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Here endlesse penance for one fault I pay, / But that redoubled crime with vengeance new / Thou biddest me to eeke ?

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