EASTERS
Noun
Easters
plural of Easter
Anagrams
• Teressa, arsetes, earsets, erasest, erastes, reseats, saeters, searest, seaters, starees, teasers, tessera
Source: Wiktionary
EASTER
Eas"ter, n. Etym: [AS. eƔster, eƔstran, paschal feast, Easter; akin
to G. ostern; fr. AS. EƔstre, a goddess of light or spring, in honor
of whom a festival was celebrated in April; whence this month was
called in AS. EƔsterm. From the root of E. east. See East.]
1. An annual church festival commemorating Christ's resurrection, and
occurring on Sunday, the second day after Good Friday. It corresponds
to the pasha or passover of the Jews, and most nations still give it
this name under the various forms of pascha, pasque, pĆ¢que, or pask.
2. The day on which the festival is observed; Easter day.
Note: Easter is used either adjectively or as the first element of a
compound; as, Easter day or Easter-day, Easter Sunday, Easter week,
Easter gifts.
Sundays by thee more glorious break, An Easter day in every week.
Keble.
Note: Easter day, on which the rest of the movable feasts depend, is
always the first Sunday after the fourteenth day of the calendar moon
which (fourteenth day) falls on, or next after, the 21st of March,
according to the rules laid down for the construction of the
calendar; so that if the fourteenth day happen on a Sunday, Easter
day is the Sunday after. Eng. Cyc. Easter dues (Ch. of Eng.), money
due to the clergy at Easter, formerly paid in communication of the
tithe for personal labor and subject to exaction. For Easter dues,
Easter offerings, voluntary gifts, have been substituted.
– Easter egg. (a) A painted or colored egg used as a present at
Easter. (b) An imitation of an egg, in sugar or some fine material,
sometimes made to serve as a box for jewelry or the like, used as an
Easter present.
East"er, v. i. (Naut.)
Definition: To veer to the east; -- said of the wind. Russell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition