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 Eschevelé: m. ée: f. Discheueled, ruffled; whose haire fals loosse, or in disorder, about the eares; (a word most proper, and most vsed, in the feminine;) also, bared (as of haire;) made bare, or bald.

Eschevement: m. A shunning, eschewing, auoiding, bending from.

Eschever. To shun, eschew, auoid, bend from.

Eschevin: m. The Sherife of a Towne; or, an Officer who (representing the Roman Ædilis) lookes that the Market be duly furnisht, and well serued; the houses fitly ranked, and well built; the streets euen paued, or cleane kept: And where a Towne hath, by any Priuiledge, the disposall of it owne Police, the Eschevins (for there be euer more then one) dispose of it; and (howsoeuer) they be in authoritie next vnto the Mayor, (or, as in Paris, to the Provost des Marchands) and, in the Townes that haue no Mayors, the principall Magistrats.

Eschevinage: m. The Sherifeship of a Towne; the Office, or Authoritie of a Sherife, or Eschevin; also, a Sherifes Court, or, the Iurisdiction thereof; also, a Corporation; or the Incorporation of a Towne; and hence;  Droict d'eschevinage. Looke Droict. Eschevissement. as Eschevement. Escheute: f. as Eschoëtte. An Escheat, &c.

Eschez. Looke Eschec. Eschif: m. iue: f. Rauenous, or greedie at meat; (a Hunters tearme.)

Eschiffeur. A Cutter, or Pinker.

Eschifflé: m. ée: f. Split, riuen.

Eschiffler vne branche d'arbre. To split, riue, or halfe-breake off, a branch.

Eschimeau. as Eschemeau. Eschinal: m. The head* of a Sinke, couered with a Grate.

Eschine: f. The Chyne, backe bone, ridge of the backe; also, (in a Pillar) a round boultell cut with egges.  Longue eschine. A slimme, lunges, luske; long-backt, or ill-shaped, loobie.

Eschiné: m. ée: f. Chyned, broken-backed.

Eschinée (de Porc.) A chyne (of Porke.)

Eschiner. To chyne; to diuide, or breake, the backe of.

Eschineux: m. euse: f. Of a great, and strong backe.

Eschinon: m. The chyne, or vpper part of the backe betweene the shoulders.

Eschiquetté. Checkie; (a tearme of Blason.)

Eschiquier: m. The Exchequer; (in Normandie) is an Assemblie of high Iusticers, wherein the Decrees, Orders, Commissions, and Iniunctions awarded by Baylifes, Vicounts, and inferior Iusticers, may be censured, and amended; (This Assemblie was extraordinarie, and held at vncertaine and vnset times, vntill that Lewis the twelfth made it ordinarie, and of it, (as it still continues) a Soueraign Court;) also, a Chess-boord; also, Checker-worke.  Planter à l'eschiquier. To plant trees Checker-wise; to set them in equall distance one from the other; or, so to set them, as which way soeuer one lookes betweene them, he sees direct Alleyes, and Rowes, in equall distance one from the other.

Eschiquoté: m. ée: f. Rid, as a tree, of vnprofitable shoots, or siences.

Eschiquoter. To cut off, or take away vnprofitable shoots, or siences from trees.

Eschoëtte: f. An Escheat; land that falls to a man by Accident; Succession, or Discent; also, (more ge-* *nerally) any Succession.

Eschoir. as Escheoir; To befall, happen; fall vnto.

Eschoite: f. An Escheat; land fallen, &c; as in Eschoëtte. Eschoitter. To succeed, or follow in the roome of another. ¶Bourbon. Escholage. as Escolage. Escholastre. as Escolastre. Eschole. as Escole. Eschope: f. A little, and (most commonly) low shop; such a one as one of our meaner Seamsters, or Pedlers hath.

Eschoppe. as Eschope. Faire essay à l'eschoppe. To lay a small, and thinne peece of siluer, &c, vpon a hot burning coale, there-*by to try the value, and alloy of it; (a Goldsmithes phrase.)

Eschoué: m. ée: f. That hath escaped after a shipwracke; also, runne a land, fast on ground, as a ship.

Eschouër. To run, or touch vpon a banke, shelfe, or shore, and there make shipwracke.

Esciemment. Wittingly, of set purpose.

Escient. à bon escient. In deed, in earnest, in good faith, in good sadnesse, from the heart.  À son escient. With his consent, or knowledge; wittingly, willingly, or for the nonce.  De tel escient. In such sober sadnesse, in so good sooth.

Escimé: m. ée: f. Topped, whose top, or head is cut off.

Escimer. To top; to cut off the tops, or heads off.

Esclaboché: m. ée: f. Bespotted, bespatled, besprinckled with water, or durt.

Esclabocher. To besprinckle, bespattle, bespot with water, or durt.

Esclaboter. as Esclabocher. ¶Pic. Esclaffer. To buff, or burst, out into a laughter.

Esclair: m. Lightning; a leame, or flash of lightning; a suddaine blase, or flash of light.

Esclairci: m. ie: f. Cleered, discouered; explaned, displayed; fined, clarified.

Esclaircir. as Esclercir. Esclaircissement. as Esclercissement. Esclaire: f. The hearbe Celandine, Swallowort, Tetterwort; (La grande Esclaire.)  Petite Esclaire. Little Celandine, Pilewort, Figwort.

Esclairé: m. ée: f. Lightned; lighted; also, watched, obserued.  Edifices bien esclairez. Lightsome, or well-windowed, houses.

Esclairer. To shine, glisten, glister; to lighten, to flash out; to appeare, or manifest it selfe; to giue light vnto; also, to watch, or obserue; to spy, or pry into.  Pourveu que ie voye esclairer, ce sera fait; If I may see the gold glister, or some chinks stirring, it shall be done.

Esclaire-tout. All-seeing, all-lighting; all-obseruing.

Esclaireur: m. An obseruer, or ouerseer of others; also, an assistant vnto a plaintife, or accuser, for his benefit, and to preuent the corruption, or collusion, which otherwise might be vsed in the handling of his suit.

Esclame: com. Gaunt, lanke, small bellied.

Esclamme: f. A long, and thicke riding cloake to beare off the raine; a Pilgrims cloake, or mantle; a cloake for a traueller.