1. 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
   "The robin's nest contained three blue eggs"
    
2. Oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
   "She scrambled eggs for breakfast";
   - eggs

1. Urge on; cause to act
   "The crowd egged on the protesters";
   - prod, incite, egg on
    
2. (cooking) coat with beaten egg
   "egg a schnitzel"
    
3. Throw eggs at
   "Protesters egged the politician's car"

Derived forms: eggs, egging, egged

Type of: bombard, cause, coat, egg cell, food product, foodstuff, get, have, induce, make, ovum, pelt, stimulate, surface

Encyclopedia: Egg, Switzerland