eager

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Having or showing keen interest, intense desire, or impatient expectancy. See Usage Note at anxious.
2. adj. Obsolete Tart; sharp; cutting.
3. n. Variant of eagre.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Sharp; sour; acid.
2. Sharp; keen; biting; severe; bitter. [Obsolete or archaic.]
3. Sharply inclined or anxious; sharp-set; excited by ardent desire; impatiently longing; vehement; keen: as, the soldiers were eager to engage the enemy; men are eager in the pursuit of wealth; eager spirits; eager zeal.
4. Manifesting sharpness of desire or strength of feeling; marked by great earnestness: as, an eager look or manner; eager words.
5. Brittle.
6. Synonyms Fervent, fervid, warm, glowing, zealous, forward, enthusiastic, impatient, sanguine, animated.
7. To make eager; urge; incite.
8. n. A sudden and formidable influx and surging of the tide in a high wave or waves, up a river or an estuary; a bore, as in the Severn, the Hooghly, and the Bay of Fundy.

Wiktionary

1. n. A tidal bore.
2. adj. Sharp; sour; acid.
3. adj. Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
4. adj. Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement; as, the hounds were eager in the chase.
5. adj. Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Sharp; sour; acid.
2. adj. Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
3. adj. Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement.
4. adj. Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
5. n. Same as eagre.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy
2. n. a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)