A Commonplace Book

Category: eggs...

  • putting eggs in Easter egg dye
  • the content of the hard-shelled reproductive body produced by a bird, considered as food
  • eggs produced in quantity by fowl generally being sold for human consumption except those specifically set aside for hatching
  • the shell and shell membrane (10 percent), albumen or white (60 percent), and yolk (30 percent) - with the yolk supplying the nutrients and albumen supplying the water for an embryo
  • a dozen extra large eggs being 27 ounces or more, large eggs 24 ounces, medium 21 ounces
  • The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire. (PH Johnson)
  • As innocent as a new-laid egg. (Sir Wm S. Gilbert)
  • robin's-egg blue

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