egg

1a :  the hard-shelled reproductive body produced by a bird and especially by the common domestic chicken; also :  its contents used as foodb :  an animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum together with its nutritive and protective envelopes and having the capacity to develop into a new individual capable of independent existencec :  ovum

2 :  something resembling an egg

3 :  person, sort a good egg

1 :  to cover with egg

2 :  to pelt with eggs

1 :  an oval or rounded body surrounded by a shell or membrane by which some animals (as birds, fish, insects, and reptiles) reproduce and from which the young hatches out

2 :  egg cell

3 :  the contents of the egg of a bird and especially a chicken that is eaten as food

:  to urge or encourage to do usually something foolish or dangerous … he'd been calling the snake off, not egging it on … — J. K. Rowling, Chamber of Secrets

1:  the hard-shelled reproductive body produced by a bird and especially by the common domestic chicken (Gallus gallus)

2:  an animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum together with its nutritive and protective envelopes and having the capacity to develop into a new individual capable of independent existence

3:  ovum