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 Escacher. To squash; beat, batter, or crush, flat; to thrust, presse, knocke, squeeze, hard or close together.

Escacheur: m. A squasher; a beater, or crusher of things flat; a thruster, presser, or squeezer of things, hard or close together.

Escachure: f. A squashing; beating, or crushing, flat; a thrusting, pressing, or squeezing, hard or close together; also, a squash, crush, knocke, or squeeze, (whereby a thing is flatted, or beaten close together.)

Escadre: f. as Esquadre. A squadron; or square batallion.  Escadres isnelles. Swift, and light companies, as of birds, &c.

Escadron: m. as Esquadron; a squadron of Souldiors.

Escaffette: f. A kind of great, and long muskle-shell (resembling a little Skiffe, or Trey) wherewith the women of Picardie skumme their milke.

Escaffignon: m. A Socke; also, a Pumpe; or, a close, and single-soled shoe of thin leather.

Escaigne de fil, ou de soye: f. A skaine of thread, &c.

Escaille: f. The skale of a fish, &c; any skale, broken shell, or shale; also, as Coucon; also, the crust, or vpper laying, of a Pauement.  Escailles. (also) peeces of wood wherewith ioynts, or crannies left betweene stones, in building, are filled vp; also, the little skalie plats whereby an Armour is made plyant vnto the bodie.  Escaille d'acier, de bronze, d'erain, de fer, &c; the Offalls of Steele, &c; the skales that fly from them whē they are hammered; (very medicinable; especially those, that fall from the vnwrought brasse, or copper; whereof nayles are forged.)   Alun d'escaille. Seeke Alun. Angelot à la grosse escaille. An old Angell; and (metaphorically) one that hath in him more stuffe and worth, then forme or fashion.  Bois d'escaille. The heart of Wood; (called so by Joyners.)  Pourpoint d'escaille. A plated Corselet made scale-fashion.  Tel cuide avoir des oeufs au feu qui n'y a que les escailles: Pro. Some weene they haue egges, that haue but shels, i' the fire.

Escaillé: m. ée: f. Skaled, skalie, hauing skales, or shales.  Mur escaillé. A wall full of cracks, or chinks.

Escaillement: m. A skaling; pilling, shaling of.

Escailler. To skale, or pull the skales of; also, to beat, bethwacke, belabor the skin-coat of.  Escailler sa ieunesse. To spend, passe; consume, or wast, his youth in dissolute, riotous, or licentious courses.  Escailler des noix. To pill, or shale, Walnuts.

Escailleur: m. A skaler; piller, shaler of.

Escailleure: f. A skaling, &c, as Escaillement. Escailleures de pierres. Shards, or spalls; small peeces broken, or bewed, from stones.

Escailleux: m. euse: f. Skalie; full of skales, or shales.

Escaillon: m. A horses tush, or tuske.  Les Escaillons du palais. (Signifie also) the skales, or skale-like diuisions, in the roofe, or palate of the mouth of a horse.

Escalade: f. A scalado; a skaling; the taking, or surprisall, of a place, by skaling.

Escaladé: m. ée: f. Skaled; taken, surprised, or entred into, by scalado. Escalarder des noix. To shale Nuts. ¶Norm. Escalbotté: m. ée: f. Pilled, vnhusked.

Escalbotter. To pill; as Pease doe in boyling; to vnhuske, or loossen the huske of.

Escalé: m. ée: f. as Escaillé. Escalier: m. A winding stayre.

Escalle. Looke Scalle. Escallé: m. ée: f. Skaled; taken, surprised, or entred into (as a Towne) by scalado; also, gone into diuers parts, and ports; also, as Escaillé. Escaller. To skale; to take, surprise, or enter into, by scalado; also, to goe into diuers parts, and Ports; also, as Escailler. Escallier: m. as Escalier. Escalonnier: m. ere: f. (Dents escalonnieres. A horses tuskes, or tushes.) Escalque: m. An Vsher, or Sewer.

Escalventré: m. ée: f. Whose guts are squashed out, or bellie burst, by treading on it.

Escalventrer. To tread out the guts; to burst the bellie with trampling on it.

Escamme. as Escamne. Escamne: m. A Bench, Forme, or Seat; also, a step to get vp vnto a higher thing by. ¶Pic. Escamoté: m. ée: f. Disguised, changed, sophisticated.

Escamoter. To change, disguise, alter, sophisticate, foist in ill wares.

Escampe: f. A scaping, flitting, shifting, flying away; a speedie dislodging, quicke retyring.

Escampé. Scaped, flit, fled, auoided, recoyled, dislodged, runne away.

s'Escamper. To scape, flit, fly, auoid, recoile, retire; to runne away, or dislodge quickly out of a place.

Escandal: m. A Mariners sounding Plummet.

Escandillé: m. ée: f. Scantled; made according to the patterne or scantling of.

Escanné: m. ée: f. Stifled, throtled, strangled.

Escantuole: f. The Pumpe of a ship; or, as Escandal. ¶Rab. Escapade: f. An escape, or escaping; and (more particularly) a licentious, rebellious, or disordered motion, in a horse; and (sometimes) the disordered, or licentious flying out of a man.

Escaper. as Eschapper. Escapolin: m. A remnant, or parcell, of a peece of stuffe.

Escappe. A small square-edged circle, or fillet in a piller, &c; also, the bodie of a piller.

Escarade: f. The opening of the nether part of the branch of a horses Bitt.

Escaras. as Eschalas. ¶Pic. Escarbelotte: f. A small Beetle.

Escarbillat: m. ate: f. Quicke, lustie, liuelie, frolicke, spiritfull, stirring, that will stand on no ground; also, fantasticall, humorous, giddie, haire-braind.

Escarbot: m. The blacke Flie called, a Beetle.  Escarbot cornu. as Cerf volant. Escarboté: m. ée: f. Stirred vp, as the fire.

Escarboter le feu. To stirre vp the fire.

Escarbotte: f. as Escarbot. Escarboucle: m. The precious stone tearmed, a Carbuncle.

Escarboucle: f. The pestilent botch, or sore, tearmed a Carbuncle.

Escarbouillé: m. ée: f. Crushed, squeezed, battered, burst in peeces.

Escarbouiller. To crush, squeeze, batter, burst in peeces.