Ekaluminium
Ek•al•u•min´i•um, n. [Skr. eka one + E. aluminium.] (Chem.) The name given to a hypothetical element, — later discovered and called gallium. See Gallium, and cf. Ekabor.

Ekasilicon
Ek•a•sil´i•con, n. [Skr. eka one + E. silicon.] (Chem.) The name of a hypothetical element predicted and afterwards discovered and named germanium; — so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See Germanium, and cf. Ekabor.

Eke (ek), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Eked p. pr. & vb. n. Eking.] [AS. ekan, ykan; akin to OFries, aka, OS. kian, OHG. ouhhon to add, Icel. auka to increase, Sw. öka, Dan. öge, Goth. aukan, L. augere, Skr. jas strength, ugra mighty, and probably to English wax, v. i. Cf. Augment, Nickname.] To increase; to add to; to augment; — now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other. "To eke my pain." Spenser.
"He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty pounds." Macaulay.

Eke, adv. [AS. eác; akin to OFries. ák, OS. k, D. ok, OHG. ouh, G. auch, Icel. auk, Sw. och and, Dan. og, Goth. auk for, but. Prob. from the preceding verb.] In addition; also; likewise. [Obs. or Archaic]
"’T will be prodigious hard to prove That this is eke the throne of love." Prior.
"A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town." Cowper. Eke serves less to unite than to render prominent a subjoined more important sentence or notion. Mätzner.

Eke, n. An addition. [R.]
"Clumsy ekes that may well be spared." Geddes.

Eking
Ek´ing, n. [From Eke, v. t.] (Shipbuilding) (a) A lengthening or filling piece to make good a deficiency in length. (b) The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery. [Written also eiking.]