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mickery (iou) and Easy (medicine)


mickery (iou)



mickery noun. Austral. Also mickerie. L19.
[Aboriginal migri.]
A water-hole or excavated well, esp. in a dry river-bed; marshy ground.

Easy (medicine)


easy


1. at ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint; as: Free from pain, distress, toil, exertion, and the like; quiet; as, the patient is easy. Free from care, responsibility, discontent, and the like; not anxious; tranquil; as, an easy mind. Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth; as, easy manners; an easy style. "The easy vigor of a line."

2. Not causing, or attended with, pain or disquiet, or much exertion; affording ease or rest; as, an easy carriage; a ship having an easy motion; easy movements, as in dancing. "Easy ways to die."

3. Not difficult; requiring little labour or effort; slight; inconsiderable; as, an easy task; an easy victory. "It were an easy leap." (Shak)

4. Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labour; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion.

5. Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; complying; ready. "He gained their easy hearts." (Dryden) "He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch." (Sir W. Scott)

6. Moderate; sparing; frugal.

7. Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; opposed to tight. Honors are easy, said when each side has an equal number of honors, in which case they are not counted as points.

Synonym: Quiet, comfortable, manageable, tranquil, calm, facile, unconcerned.

Origin: OF. Aisie, F. Aise, prop. P. P. Of OF. Aisier. See Ease.

Source: Websters Dictionary