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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An eye.
2. n. A common English digraph, of Middle English origin, having now the sound of “long” e, namely, ē. In Middle English it was actually “double” e—that is, the long sound ā corresponding to the short sound e, representing an Anglo-Saxon long e (ē), as in beet, greet, meet, breed, feed, etc., or an Anglo-Saxon æ¯, as in seed, eel, sleep, weed, etc., or ed, as in cheek, steep, leek, etc., or eó, as in bee, deer, deep, creep, weed, etc., such vowels or diphthongs becoming in later Middle English long e, written either e or ee, and in early modern English spelled ee or ea, with some differentiation (see ea). In words of other than Anglo-Saxon origin ee has the same sound, except in a few words not completely Anglicized, as in matinée. Words of Oriental or other remote origin having the vowel i (pronounced ē) are often spelled with ee when turned into English form, as elchee, suttee, etc.
3. n. A suffix of French, or more remotely of Latin origin, ultimately the same as -ate and -ed, forming the termination of the perfect passive participle, and indicating the object of an action. It occurs chiefly in words derived from old Law French or formed according to the analogy of such words, as in pay-ee, draw-ee, assign-ee, employ-ee, etc., denoting the person who is paid, drawn on, assigned to, employed, etc., as opposed to the agent in -or or -er(in legal use generally -or), as pay-er or pay-or, draw-er, assign-or, employ-er, etc.
4. n. A diminutive termination, occurring in bootee, goatee, etc. The diminutive force is less obvious in settee, which may be regarded as a diminutive of sett-le.

Wiktionary

1. n. An eye.
2. interj. eh

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication