Eer

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  E'er \E'er\ (?; 277), adv.
     A contraction for ever. See {Ever}. Eerie

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ever \Ev"er\adv. [OE. ever, [ae]fre, AS. [ae]fre; perh. akin to


     AS. [=a] always. Cf. {Aye}, {Age},{Evry}, {Never}.]
     [Sometimes contracted into {e'er}.]
     1. At any time; at any period or point of time.
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              No man ever yet hated his own flesh.  --Eph. v. 29.
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     2. At all times; through all time; always; forever.
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              He shall ever love, and always be
              The subject of by scorn and cruelty.  --Dryder.
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     3. Without cessation; continually.
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     Note: Ever is sometimes used as an intensive or a word of
           enforcement. "His the old man e'er a son?" --Shak.
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                 To produce as much as ever they can. --M. Arnold.
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     {Ever and anon}, now and then; often. See under {Anon}.
  
     {Ever is one}, continually; constantly. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
     {Ever so}, in whatever degree; to whatever extent; -- used to
        intensify indefinitely the meaning of the associated
        adjective or adverb. See {Never so}, under {Never}. "Let
        him be ever so rich." --Emerson.
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              And all the question (wrangle e'er so long),
              Is only this, if God has placed him wrong. --Pope.
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              You spend ever so much money in entertaining your
              equals and betters.                   --Thackeray.
  
     {For ever}, eternally. See {Forever}.
  
     {For ever and a day}, emphatically forever. --Shak.
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              She [Fortune] soon wheeled away, with scornful
              laughter, out of sight for ever and day. --Prof.
                                                    Wilson.
  
     {Or ever} (for or ere), before. See {Or}, {ere}. [Archaic]
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              Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven
              Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio! --Shak.
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     Note: Ever is sometimes joined to its adjective by a hyphen,
           but in most cases the hyphen is needless; as, ever
           memorable, ever watchful, ever burning.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  e'er
       adv : at all times; all the time and on every occasion; "I will
             always be there to help you"; "always arrives on time";
             "there is always some pollution in the air"; "ever
             hoping to strike it rich"; "ever busy" [syn: {always},
             {ever}] [ant: {never}]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  EER
       
          An extended {entity-relationship model}.