1. [n]  animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
2. [n]  one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; "she kicked him in the balls and got away"
3. [n]  oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
4. [v]  coat with beaten egg; "egg a schnitzel"
5. [v]  throw eggs at

1. \Egg\, n. [OE., fr. Icel. egg; akin to AS. [ae]g (whence OE.
   ey), Sw. ["a]gg, Dan. [ae]g, G. & D. ei, and prob. to OSlav.
   aje, jaje, L. ovum, Gr. 'w,o`n, Ir. ugh, Gael. ubh, and perh.
   to L. avis bird. Cf. {Oval}.]
   1. (Popularly) The oval or roundish body laid by domestic
      poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a
      yolk, usually surrounded by the ``white'' or albumen, and
      inclosed in a shell or strong membrane.
   
   2. (Biol.) A simple cell, from the development of which the
      young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell.
   
   3. Anything resembling an egg in form.
   
   Note: Egg is used adjectively, or as the first part of
         self-explaining compounds; as, egg beater or
         egg-beater, egg case, egg ladle, egg-shaped, etc.
   
   {Egg and anchor} (Arch.), an egg-shaped ornament, alternating
      with another in the form of a dart, used to enrich the
      ovolo; -- called also {egg and dart}, and {egg and
      tongue}. See {Anchor}, n., 5. --Ogilvie.
   
   {Egg cleavage} (Biol.), a process of cleavage or
      segmentation, by which the egg undergoes endogenous
      division with formation of a mass of nearly similar cells,
      from the growth and differentiation of which the new
      organism is ultimately formed. See {Segmentation of the
      ovum}, under {Segmentation}.
   
   {Egg development} (Biol.), the process of the development of
      an egg, by which the embryo is formed.
   
   {Egg mite} (Zo["o]l.), any mite which devours the eggs of
      insects, as {Nothrus ovivorus}, which destroys those of
      the canker worm.
   
   {Egg parasite} (Zo["o]l.), any small hymenopterous insect,
      which, in the larval stage, lives within the eggs of other
      insects. Many genera and species are known.
   
   

2. \Egg\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Egged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Egging}.] [OE. eggen, Icel. eggja, fr. egg edge. ??. See
   {Edge}.]
   To urge on; to instigate; to incite?
   
         Adam and Eve he egged to ill.            --Piers
                                                  Plowman.
   
         [She] did egg him on to tell How fair she was.
                                                  --Warner.
   
   

1. A structure which the females of certain animal species lay as a means of reproduction; it contains a fertilized zygote and nutrition in the form of yolk for the developing offspring, sometimes contains other substances (eg., the "white" of a hen's egg), sometimes surrounded by a protective outer shell.
2. A haploid reproductive cell (gamete) produced by the female of a species which, when united with a sperm cell (of the same species) develops into an embryo.

(Heb. beytsah, "whiteness"). Eggs deserted (Isa. 10:14), of a bird (Deut. 22:6), an ostrich (Job 39:14), the cockatrice (Isa. 59:5). In Luke 11:12, an egg is contrasted with a scorpion, which is said to be very like an egg in its appearance, so much so as to be with difficulty at times distinguished from it. In Job 6:6 ("the white of an egg") the word for egg (hallamuth') occurs nowhere else. It has been translated "purslain" (R.V. marg.), and the whole phrase "purslain-broth", i.e., broth made of that herb, proverbial for its insipidity; and hence an insipid discourse. Job applies this expression to the speech of Eliphaz as being insipid and dull. But the common rendering, "the white of an egg", may be satisfactorily maintained.