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eath | tath |

As an adjective eath

is easy; not hard or difficult.

As an adverb eath

is easily.

As a noun tath is

the dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser.

As a verb tath is

to manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.

eath

English

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

Adjective

(er)
  • Easy; not hard or difficult.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XIX, lxi:
  • *:There, as he look'd, he saw the canvas rent, / Through which the voice found eath and open way.
  • *1609 , (Thomas Heywood), Troia Britanica, or Great Britain's Troy :
  • *:At these advantages he knowes 'tis eath to cope with her quite severed from her maids.
  • *1847 , (Hugh Miller), First Impressions of England and its people :
  • *:There has been much written on the learning of Shakespeare but not much to the purpose: one of our old Scotch proverbs is worth all the dissertations on the subject I have yet seen. "God's bairns", it says, "are eath to lear",.

    • Antonyms

    * uneath * difficult

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Adverb

    (head)
  • Easily.
  • *1823 , J. Kennedy, Poems :
    • Their food and their raiment he eith can supply.

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l)

    tath

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) tath, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The dung of livestock left on a field to serve as manure or fertiliser.
  • A piece of ground dunged by livestock.
  • Strong grass growing around the dung of kine.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) tathen, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To manure (land) by pasturing cattle on it, or causing them to lie upon it.
    • (Webster 1913)