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 Epalouïr. To melt, or swelter with extreame heat.

Epanalepse: f. The repetition of a word, whereby a sentence or verse is ended, at the beginning of the next; also, a repetition after a long Parenthesis; the figure of Resumption.

Epanode. A seuerall rehearsall of two things which at first were spoken of ioyntly; or (more generally) any returne, regression, renouation, repetition.

Epanons d'un dard. The feathers of a dart.

Epanter. as Espouvanter; to dismay. Epatique. The hearbe Trinitie, or noble Agrimonie.

Epaular: m. An Orke; a great sea-fish mortall enemie vnto the Whall.

Epe. in stead of, Et puis; a rusticall word.

Epeiche: f. A Speight; the red-tayled Woodpecker, or Highaw.

Epelan: m. A Smelt.

Epelé: m. Spealt, or spealed.

Epeler. To speale.

Eperge: f. A Brush.

Eperlan: m. A Smelt.

Ephebe: m. A mariageable youth or stripling; one thats foureteene and vpwards.

Ephectique: com. One that after long studie, & search, is more doubtfull then he was at first.

Ephemere. The hearbe Liricumfancie, or May-Lillies; also, an ague of but one dayes continuance.  L'Ephemere Colchique. The wild Medow Saffron with the dark-red roots.

Ephemerique. Fievre eph. That lasts but a day.

Ephimeris. A Iournall, or daylie Register of things done.

Epicaie: f. Equitie, mitigation of the rigour of the Law.

Epicaizer. To iudge according to equitie, to mitigate the rigor of the Law.

Epiche: f. A Speight; the red-tayled Wood-pecker, or Highaw.

Epicycle. A lesser circle, whose centre is within the circumference of a greater; hence, a lesser circle that comprehends, and carries about with it, a Planet, it selfe being carried about by a greater; the Seat of a Planet, or Storie wherein it is fixed.

Epiderme. The most outward thinne skinne of the bodie.

Epidimial. Maladie Epidimiale. as Epidimie. Epidimie. An vniuersall sicknesse, or generall infection; a most catching, or contagious disease.

Epidimique: com. Infectious, contagious, pestilent; or, vniuersall, generall, growne common, very much dispersed, among the people.

Epiecé: m. ée: f. Diuided, peecemealed, rent in peeces.

Epiecer. To peecemeale, diuide, rend asunder, pull in peeces.

Epigastre: m. All the outward part of the bellie from the bulke to the priuities.

Epigastrique. Belonging thereto.  Artere Epigastrique. Looke Artere. Veine Epigastrique. A branch of the Iliack, or flanke veine; there are two of them; an outward, and an inward one, both which at length are ioyned with the Mammales. Epiglottide. The couer, weesell, or flap of the throat.

Epigrammatique: com. Epigrammaticall, or Epigram-*like.

Epigrammatiste. An Epigrammatist, a writer of Epigrams. Epigramme: m. An Epigram; a Couplet, Stanzo, or shor Poeme, wittily taxing a particular person, or fault; also, a title, inscription, or superscription.

Epigrer. as Escacher, & Fouler. (at Tours.) Epilemie. A song of the superscription of a thing. ¶Rab. Epilence. A kind of falling euill in a Hawke.

Epilepsie. The falling sicknesse, or foule euill.

Epileptique. That hath the falling sicknesse.

Epilogue: m. An Epilogue; the conclusion, knitting vp, or finall end, of a Play, &c.

Epilogué: m. ée: f. Concluded, ended, finished, knit vp.

Epiloguer. To conclude, or knit vp; to make a conclusion, epilogue, or finall end of.

Epinarde. A little fish; as Espinoche. Epinete. as Espinette; a paire of Virginals. Epinices. Feasts, verses, or songs of triumph after a victorie. ¶Rab. Epinoche. as Espinoche. Epinyctide: f. A wheale, or push that rises on the skinne by night.

Epiphanie: f. The Epiphanie, or Twelfth day in Christmas.

Epiphore: f. The Rhewmaticke moistnesse, waterinesse, or dropping of the eyes; also, violence, impression, vehemencie.

Epiphyse: f. An addition, or appendix to a bone, obtaining a peculiar circumscription within, and annexation to, it, though otherwise it be no true part of it.

Epiploïque. Veine epiploïque. See Veine. Episcopal: m. ale: f. Episcopall; of, or belonging to, a Bishop.

Episcopaux: m. The followers, fauorites, or fauorers, of Bishops.

Episemasie: f. A note, or designation; a signification of the mind by the countenance, or gesture: Rabelais vses it (as if it were Episemanomie) for a popular shout, or acclamation.

Epistemon. A Teacher. ¶Rab. Epistre: f. An Epistle, a letter missiue.

Epistrophe. The ending of two verses with one word; (a figure.)

Epistyle: m. as Architrave; also, a little piller set vpon a greater. Epitaphe: m. An Epitaph; a funerall poeme, or inscription.

Epitasse d'une tragedie. The busiest part of a Tragedie.

Epithalme. A wedding Song, or Poeme; verses made, or a song sung, at a wedding, in commendation of the parties married.

Epitheme: m. A liquid medicine, applyed vnto an outward part of the bodie, by a peece of thinne linnen, or cotton dipped in it; thereby to supple the place, or coole and comfort the inward (heart, stomacke, or liuer) thats vnder it.

Epithemé: m. ée: f. Bathed, moistened, wet, bedeawed.

Epithemer. To bath, moisten, wet, bedeaw.

Epithimer. as Epithemer. Epithin: m. The weed Dodder; especially that kind thereof, which growes twyning about the branches of Time.

Epitoge: m. A long Cloke, or Cassocke, worne loose ouer other apparrell; also, a Graduats hood.

Epitome: m. An Epitomie, Abridgement, Breuiarie.