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 Steward, and Comptroller of the houshold, and deliuered ouer vnto the Treasurer; also, the Breuiate of a case, or cause, in controuersie; also, the warrant thats deliuered by a generall Assessor vnto inferior Collectors, for the leuying of a Subsidie, tax, or imposition.

Escruoëlle: f. A little Shrimp-resembling worme, or vermine in puddles, and some springs.

Escrouëllé: m. ée: f. Troubled with the Kings euill.  Ame escrouëllée. An infected, traiterous, or depraued spirit.

Les Escrouëlles. The Kings euill.  Herbe des escrouëlles. Little Celandine, Pilewort, Figwort.

Escroulé: m. ée: f. Shaken, tottered, shogged.

Escroulement. A shaking, shogging, tottering.

Escrouler. To shake, totter, shog.

Escroupionné: m. ée: f. Rumplesse; whose crupper is broken.

Escrousté: m. ée: f. Chipped; vncrusted; vnscabbed.

Escroustement: m. An vncrusting; or vnscabbing.

Escrouster. To chip; vncrust; vnscab; to pare the crust off, pull or pill the scab from.

Escrouter. To vncrust; to chip, or pull the crust off.

Escru. drap escru. Raw, new, fresh, vndressed, vntrimmed cloth; euen as it comes from the weauer.

Escruë. as Accreuë. Escu: m. A crowne in money; also, a shield, or targuet; also, a Scutcheon (of Armes; and sometimes th' Armes themselues) or coat of Armes.  Escu couronne. Is lesse in value, by a Sous, then the Escu Sol. Escus à l'estoille Poussiniere. Looke Estoille. Escu du Palais. A counter.  L'escu du soc. Th' eare of the plow-share.  Escu sol. A Crowne of the Sunne; (the best kind of Crowne that is now made) hath a little starre on th' one side.  Escu vieil. An old Crowne; is worth vij. s. ij. d. sterl. Il n'a escu ny targe. The diuell may freely daunce in his purse; there is not a crosse to fright him, or blesse th' owner, withall.  Il fait de son teston vn escu. He thriues well, gaines much, increases mightily in estate.

Escudes. as Escudettes. Escudettes. The hearbe Hipwort, Venus-nauell, Penny-*wort, Pennie-grasse.

Escueil: m. A rocke; also, a rockie place.

Escuelle: f. A dish.  Escuelle à oreillons. A porrenger.  Grande escuelle. A platter, or charger.  Petite escuelle. A saucer; or small dish.  Les affaires domestiques y vont par escuelles. All things are squandered, rioted, or disorderly wasted, in that house; the like is;  Tout y va par escuelles. There is cheere in bowles; there is no sparing, pinching, nor sauing of any thing; and;  Mettre tout par escuelles. (As we say) to throw the house out at windowes.  Qui s'attend à l'escuelle d'autruy il disne souvent bien tard: Prov. Tis long before hee bee serued that waits for another mans leauings.

Escuellée: f. A dish full of.

Escuelles. Hipwort, Wall-penniewort, Ladies-nauell; (an hearbe.)

Escuellette: f. A little dish.

Escueuil: m. A kind of Oake whose acornes are good to bee eaten; some hold it to be, the barren Scarlet Oake.

Escuier. as Escuyer; An Esquier, &c.

Escuirie: f. as Escuyrie. Escuisant. Smarting, itching, netling, stinging.

Escuissé: m. ée: f. Hipped; or, whose hip, or thigh is put out of ioynt.

Escuisser. To hip; to put the hip, or thigh out of ioynt.

Esculé: m. ée: f. Whose taile is burst; heele troden downe.

Esculée: f. A dish full of.

Esculer. To burst the taile of.  Esculer vne aiguille. To breake a needles eye.  Esculer ses souliers. To tread his shooes downe at the heeles.

Escume: f. Scumme, drosse, foame, froth.  Escume de Mareschal. The refuse, or drosse of yron; smithie dust.  Escume de plomb. Lead-foame, comes by cleere water cast vpon hot lead, presently after it hath beene melted.  Escume de sel. Looke Sel. Escumé: m. ée: f. Scummed, or skimmed; refined, clarified; cleansed in th' outward parts; also, scowred, as the sea by a pyrat &c.

Escumement: m. A foaming; also, a scumming, or skimming; also, a raunging, rouing; also, a scowring of the seas.

Escumer. To foame, or yeeld a frothie slauer; to gather vnto a froth, or scumme; also, to skimme, or clarifie, liquor; to refine, or take off the (outward) filth from; also, to raunge, roue, deale at randome; whence;  Escumer la mer. To scowre, as a fleet of warlike ships, the sea; to play the pyrat, to vse piracie.

Escumeur: m. (Is properly) a scummer, or skimmer of liquor; also (lesse properly, but more commonly) a pirate, or a rouer at sea.

Escumeux: m. euse: f. Foamie, frothie, filthie.

Escumier: m. ere: f. Of foame, or froth; wherupon some Poets tearme Venus, fille escumiere, because shee is fained to haue beene bred of the sea-foame.

Escumoir: m. A scummer.

Escumoire: f. The same.

Escurage: m. A scowring; cleansing; feying.

Escuré: m. ée: f. Scowred; cleansed; feyed.

Escurer. To scowre; fey, rinse, cleanse, or make cleane: ¶Rab. Escureur. as Escurieu; A Squirrell; also, a scowrer, cleanser; feyer.

Escurie: f. as Escuyrie. Escurieu: m. A squirell.

Escurs. The little sallade hearb called, Ciues, or Chiues.

Escusson: m. A Scutcheon; a small targuet, or shield; also, the knop in the middle of a timber-vault where the ends of the courbed poasts doe meete; also the bud of a tree, cut off with part of the barke, in forme of an ordinarie scutcheon, and hence.  Enter en escusson. To lodge that bud in the bark of a tree by an incision made thereinto of the forme of a T, or by any other hole apt to receaue it; the clefts, and breaches therof being afterwards closed vp with wax, or clay.

Escussonnable: com. Fit to be so graffed.

Escussonné: m. ée: f. Defended, or couered with a scutcheon, or shield.

Escussonner. as Enter en escusson; also, to defend, or couer with a scutcheon, or shield.