écrin (Fr.), casket, jewel-case.
écru (Fr.), unbleached, raw.
edax rerum (L.), devourer of [all] things.
edition de luxe (Fr.), a splendid and expensive edition of a book.
editio princeps (L.), original edition [especially of a work till then only known in MS.].
égalité (Fr.), equality.
égarement (Fr.), confusion, bewilderment.
Egeria, the nymph who instructed the ancient Roman king Numa Pompilius, hence any woman who gives a man his inspiration.
egesta (Late L.), excrements, fæces.
ego et rex meus (L.), I and my king [Cardinal Wolsey].