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 Escornifleur: m. A base pickthanke, or parasite; greedie feeder, or smell-feast; one that carries tales, ieasts, or newes from house to house, thereby to get victualls.

Escornizer. as Escorner. Escort: m. orte: f. Discreet, warie, heedie, aduised, circumspect; obseruant; that knowes well how to carrie himselfe, in any businesse wherin he meddles, or companie wherewith he meets.

Escorte: f. A guide; conuoy; safeconduct; a direction, or safegard for the way.

Escosse: f. The huske, hull, or cod of a beane, pease, &c.

Escossé: m. ée: f. Vnhusked, shaled, hulled.

Escosser. To vnhuske, shale, hull.

Escossois: m. oise: f. Scottish, of Scotland.  Magot Escossois. A Coot, or Moorehenne,

Escot: m. A shot; also, a yong shute of a tree; also, a splinter, thorne, or stumpe of a thorne offensiue to the bare-footed.  Disner à escot. A dinner at an ordinarie; or, whereat euerie guest payes his part, or, share and share like.  Faisons l'escot. Words vsed by the Capuchines when they shake their robes ouer the imbers, to auoid their vermine, and to consume by the aire of the fire the matter whereof they breed.  Parler par escot. To speake by turnes, to heare one another speake.  Payer l'escot pour autruy. To pay, or be punished for other men.  Il a prins, ou fait cela, soubs l'escot. He hath taken, &c, that in secret, vnder-hand, by stealth, in hugger mugger.  Il s'a beau taire de l'escot qui ne paye rien: Prov. He may wel ynough conceale the shot that payes no part of it.

Escotté: m. ée: f. That is within a shot, or hath paied a shot.

Escotter. Euery one to pay his shot, or to contribute somewhat towards it, &c.

Escoüade: f. The traine, or followers of a Captaine, or Leader; also, the companie of souldiors whereof a Corporall hath the leading; a squadron.

Escoüarde. as Escoüade; vn cap d'es. A Corporall.

Escoube: f. A brush; also, a maukin for an ouen: ¶Langued. Escoudé: m. ée: f. Depriued of his support, of the stay whereon he leaned, of the meanes whereon he relied.

Escoüé: m. ée: f. Curtalled; whose taile is lost, or cut off; also, wagged, or shaken vp and downe.

Escouër. To curtall, or cut off the taile; also, to wag, or shake a thing vp and downe.

Escouëtte: f. A Plaisterers whiting brush.

Escouëttes. Sheates; Looke Escoutes. Escoufle: f. A Kite, Puttocke, or Glead.

Escouillé: m. ée: f. Gelt, libd, vnstoned; bereaued, or maimed of his stones.  Escouillé de Sybille. One of Sybells (gelt) Priests.

Escouillement: m. A gelding, libbing, bereauing of stones.

Escouiller. To geld, lib, vnstone, cut away the stones of, bereaue of stones; also, to maime, or make impotent, by striking on the cods, or stones.

Escouillon: m. A wispe, or dishclowt; a maukin, or drag, to cleanse, or sweepe an ouen.

Escouillure: f. A gelding, or libbing; a cutting away of the cullions.

Escouisson. as Escoinson.

Escoulable: com. Drainable; consumeable; easie to be dried, or decayed; soone slipping, or gliding by.  La memorie de le homme est escoulable. Quickly past, easily rased, soone gone.

Escoulant: m. as Escoulement; Or, a draine; or strainer; also, a sloping part, or place, downe which a thing easily glides, or is apt to runne.

Escoulant. Drayning, or drying vp; gliding, or slipping by.

Escoulé: m. ée: f. Drained; also, strained; also, deriued from one to another; also, slid, slipt, passed, runne, fled smoothly, glibly, quietly along, or away; also, consumed, wasted, pined away by little and little.  Iour escoulé. A day ouerslipt, ouerpast, or gone, almost before it was thought of.

Escoulement: m. A draining, or drying vp; also, a straining; also, a consuming, wasting, or pining away, as of the bodie.  Escoulement d'eau. A gliding, sliding, slipping, smooth running, glib falling, gentle passing along, of water.

Escouler. To draine, or drie vp; also, to deriue from one to another; also, to straine through.  S'escouler. To glide, slip, slide, runne quietly, passe couertly, along; to fall downe glibly, flie smoothly away; also, to wast, pine, decay, consume.

Escouleté. souliers escouletez. Welted; also, cut, or open on th' instup, and tied with a lachet passing ouer it.

Escouleure: f. A strainer.

Escoullement. as Escoulement. Escouller. as Escouler. Escoupellé: m. ée: f. Topped, or whose top is cut off.

Escoupeller. To top, or cut off the top of a tree. (v.m.) Escoupette. as Escopette; A Petronell, or long Pistoll.

Escourgée: f. A thong, latchet; scourge, or whip.

Escourgeon: m. Amelcorne, Starch-corne; a kind of base and degenerate wheat, which being ground yeelds verie white (but verie light, and little nourishing) meale.

Escourre. To thrash, or seuer corne from the chaffe; also, to beat, or shake, as dustie clothes, &c.

Escoursouër: m. The dale of a (ships) pumpe, whereby the water is passed out.

Escourté: m. ée: f. Curtalled, shortened, cut, or chopped off.

Escourter. To curtall, shorten; cut, or chop off.

Escousse: f. A shaking, swagging, swinging, shogging, iogging; also, a swag, swing, or violent sway; also, as Rescousse. Escousse. (The feminine of Escoux.) Escoutant. Hearing, hearkening, listening vnto.  Il ne seroit nuls mesdisans s'il n'estoit des escoutans: Prov. None would reuile if none would heare.

Escoute: m. A spie, eaue-dropper, prying companion; also, a scout, scout-watch, or Sentinell; the discouerer, or forerunner, of an armie.  Croupir aux escoutes de gros morceaux. Looke Morceau. Estre aux escoutes. To listen, hearken, watch, or spie, whats done abroad; to eaue-drop, to prie into mens actions, or courses; priuately to obserue their lookes, or ordinarie speeches.

Escouté: m. ée: f. Hearkened, listened, giuen eare vnto.

Escoutement: m. A hearkening, or listening; a hearing with attention.

Escouter. To hearken, heare, listen, giue eare, yeeld attention vnto; to heed the speech, obserue the words of.