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  1.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    Enough \E*nough"\, n. A sufficiency; a quantity which satisfies desire, is adequate to the want, or is equal to the power or ability; as, he had enough to do take care of himself. "Enough is as good as a feast." [1913 Webster]

    And Esau said, I have enough, my brother. --Gen. xxxiii. 9. [1913 Webster]

  2.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    Enough \E*nough"\ ([-e]*n[u^]f"), a. [OE. inoh, inow, enogh, AS. gen[=o]h, gen[=o]g, a. & adv. (akin to OS. gin[=o]g, D. genoeg, OHG. ginoug, G. genug, Icel. gn[=o]gr, Sw. nog, Dan. nok, Goth. gan[=o]hs), fr. geneah it suffices (akin to Goth. ganah); pref. ge- + a root akin to L. nancisci to get, Skr. na[,c], Gr. 'enegkei^n to carry.] Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs. [1913 Webster]

    How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! --Luke xv. 17. [1913 Webster]

  3.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    Enough \E*nough"\, adv. 1. In a degree or quantity that satisfies; to satisfaction; sufficiently. [1913 Webster]

    2. Fully; quite; -- used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very; as, he is ready enough to embrace the offer. [1913 Webster]

    I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

    Thou knowest well enough . . . that this is no time to lend money. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

    3. In a tolerable degree; -- used to express mere acceptableness or acquiescence, and implying a degree or quantity rather less than is desired; as, the song was well enough. [1913 Webster]

    Note: Enough usually follows the word it modifies. [1913 Webster]

  4.                 From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
                    

    enough \e*nough"\, interj. An exclamation denoting sufficiency, being a shortened form of it is enough. [1913 Webster]