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 Escoutes. The Sheates; the double ropes which serue to fasten the maine saile behind.

Escouteur. An hearer, hearkener, listener, eaues-dropper.  À fol conteur sage escouteur: Prov. While fooles doe speake wise men had need to heare.

Escoutilles: f. The scutles, or hatches of a ship; th' ouertures, or trap doores, whereat things are let downe into the hold.

Escoutillon: m. A scuttle.

Escoux: m. Escousse: f. Shaken, iogged, swinged, swagged.  Paille escousse. Wherein no corne is left.

Escouvelle: f. A brush; as Escouëtte. Escouvillon. as Escouillon. Escouvillonner. To spunge a peece; to cleanse her before and after she is discharged.

Escrageant. Crushing, or squeezing out.

Escragé: m. ée: f. Crushed, or squeezed out.

Escrager. To crush, or squeeze out of.

Esraigne. A little houell, made of poles set round with their ends meeting at the top, and couered with turues, sods, and dung, so thicke, that no weather can pierce it.

Escrain: m. A Casket, or small Cabinet; a little Ring-*box, or Iewell-box; also, the till of a chest.

Escran: m. A skreene to set betweene and the fire; also, the tester of a bed.  Faire escran contre le vent. To turne his nose into the wind, to set his nose against the wind; or, to stand betweene one and the wind.

Escrasé: m. ée: f. Squasht downe, beaten flat, crushed in peeces with much pressing, or hard leaning on.

Escrasement: m. A crushing flat, or squashing downe.

Escraser. To squash downe, beat flat, crush in peeces with much pressing, or hard leaning on.

Escraseur: m. A crusher; squasher, or beater of things flat by hard pressing of them.

s'Escravanter. To burst, or split himselfe.

Escriere. Pie es. The rauenous bird called, a Shrike, Nimmurder, Wariangle: ¶Savoyard. Escrazé. Looke Escrasé. Escrein: m. A skreene.

Escremé: m. ée: f. Vncreamed, fleeted, as milke.

Escremer. To fleet, or take away the creame from milke.

Escresmer. The same.

Escreté: m. ée: f. Vnchaulked; or depriued of chaulkie whitenesse.

Escrevé: m. ée: f. Riuen, clouen, burst, or split, asunder.

Escrever. l'es. du iour, ou de la nuict. The dawning of the day; the twilight.

s'Escrever. To riue, cleeue, burst, or split, asunder.

Escrevisse: f. A Creuice, or Crayfish; (By some Authors, but not so properly, the Crab-fish is also tearmed so.)  Escrevisse de fumier. The great, & venomous black Beetle.  Escrevisse de mer. A Lobster; or, (more properly) a Sea-Creuice.  Pas d'escrevisse. A backe-step, a going backward.  Pierres d'escrevisse. Eooke Pierre. Plus lunatique qu'vn'escrevisse. More lunaticke then a Creuice.

Escrevisser. To goe backeward.

Escrevisses. The ioynted plates, or part, of a Cuirats, resembling the backe of a Creuice.

Escri: m. An outcrie, or acclamation.

Escrié: m. ée: f. Exclaimed, cried out. Escriement. as Escri; Or, An exclaiming, or crying out.

Escrier aucun. To exclaime, crie out on, call vpon one.  s'Escrier. To exclaime, crie out, make an outcrie; to rore, bray, or yell.

Escrime: f. Fencing, the Art of fencing.

Escrimer. To fence, or play at fence; also, to lay hard about him.

Escrimerie: f. as Escrime. Escrimeur: m. A Fencer, a Maister of Fence.

Escrin. as Escrain; A Casket.

Escriner. To barbe; to powle, or plucke off the haire.

Escrinier: m. A Ioyner; and (more particularly) a Casket-maker, Cabinet-maker.

Escript: m. A writing; a manuscript, scrowle, scodule, thing written; an Indenture, or peece of euidence.  Bailler par escript. To publish, declare, offer, exhibit, put forth, set out, in writing.  Mettre par escript. To couch, digest, record, set downe in, commit vnto, writing.

Escript: m. te: f. Written; described or decyphered, published or declared, couched or set downe, in writing.  Droict escript. The Ciuile Law.

Escripteau: m. A note, or bill of ones hand; an inscription, title; short memorandum, libell, certificate; a declaration, or description of a thing, in writing.

Escriptoire: f. A Penner.

Escripture: f. Writ, Scripture, writing; a stile, or manner of writing; the making, or writing of bookes; an inscription, or title; a deed, writing, or euidence.  Scavoir moult d'escripture. To be learned, or skilfull in, or well acquainted with, most bookes.

Escrire. To write; scribble, scribe it; to indite, decipher, pourtray, display, couch, or set downe, in writing; to make a booke, or worke.  Escrire nicement. Looke Nicement. À mal exploicter bien escrire. Appliable when a man by a faire tale, or wel-couched words, indeuors to extenuate the guilt of his faults, or of his errors in proceeding.  En la peau de brebis ce que tu veux y escris: Prov. One may write what hee will in a sheepes skin.

Escrit: m. ite: f. Written; Looke Escript. Escriteau: m. as Escripteau. Escriture: f. as Escripture. Escrivaillé: m. ée: f. Scribled, scuruily penned, bauldly written.

Escrivaillerie: f. Scribling, bauld writing.

Escrivailleur: m. A scribler, bauld writer, paultrie penman.

Escrivain: m. A Notarie, Scribe, Scriuener.

Escrivainerie: f. Scriuenership; the Art, or Act, of a Scriuener.

Escrivisse. as Escrevisse. Escrober. To shog, or iog, as a cart in an vneuen way.

Escroë. as Escrouë. Escrotter. To gnaw, or bite with the teeth.

Escrou: m. A Goalers booke, &c; as in Escrouë.

Escrouë: m. A scrue; the hole, or hollow thing wherein the vice of a presse, &c, doth turne; also, a scrowle; also, the booke wherein a Goaler sets downe, and registers the names, and surnames of his prisoners, and the day, moneth, and yeare of their entrance, and dismission; also, a Suruey of the ground held by a Cottier, or Copiholder, deliuered vnto his Landlord; also, a roll containing the particulars of the Courts expence in acates, &c, digested, and signed euerie day by the