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 Eslaguissant. Pruning; cropping, or plucking off vnprofitable branches.

Eslaïnde. An engine wherewith great stones are lifted vp.

Eslançant. Violently launching, shooting, hurling, throwing, thrusting, pushing forward; stretching out.  s'Eslançant. Furiously leaping, running, setting, or flying vpon.

Eslancé: m. ée: f. (Violently, or with an out-stretched bodie) leaped, girded, skipped, launched; put, pushed, thrust on, or forward; throwne, cast, hurled, flung, darted, shot out, or from; also, stretched vp, or out; also, gaunt, lanke, long, thinne or leane bodied; scrag-like, right like a Gangrell.

Eslancement: m. A violent leaping, launching, skipping; putting, pushing, thrusting on, vp, out, or forward; hurling, throwing, darting, shooting out, or from; a retching, or stretching out of the bodie in any of those actions; also, as Elancement; also, a slitch, or pricking in the bodie, caused by an Impostume, Pluresie, &c.  Eslancement de l'esprit. An vnquietnesse; a disquieting, or stirring vp of passions; an out-ierting [F1 remembers seeing out-(i)jerting in other definitions, too] of the spirit, a sudden motion of the mind, or transportation of thoughts.

Eslancer. (Violently, or with an out-stretcht bodie) to thrust, put, push, vp, forward, on, or vpon; also (and in the same manner) to hurle, throw, cast, fling, dart, shoot out, or from; also, to stretch out, as the bodie, in any of these actions; also, as Elancer. Eslancer vn cerf. To rowse a Stag.  Eslancer vn cheval. Suddenly to thrust a horse forward, with the spurre, &c.  s'Eslancer. Violently, or suddenly to leape, skip, iert, gird, launch forward.  s'Eslancer sur vn ennemy. To make furiously towards him, set fiercely vpon him; leape, or flie, at his face.

Eslangouré. as Eslangoré. Eslangui: m. ie: f. Languished, in languishment, or fallen into languishment.

Eslans: m. A stretching out, or ierting vp, or thrusting forward, of the bodie prepared vnto a violent action, or motion, as leaping, hurling, darting, &c; hence also, any liuelie, violent, or sudden motion, be it leap, skip, iert, thrust, or stretch; also, the wild, and disordered pressing forward of a doing horse.

Eslargi: m. ie: f. Dilated, widened, inlarged, greatened, increased; also, freed, inlarged, released, set at libertie; also, giuen largely, dealt frankly, bestowed bountifully.

Eslargir. To dilate, inlarge, widen, greaten, increase; also, to free, set at large, giue libertie, or scope vnto; also, to giue largely, bestow frankly, deale bountifully.  s'Eslarger en la mer. To get sea-roome, or goe roomeward to sea; to get, put, or make out into the maine.

Eslargissant. Dilating, inlarging, widening, increasing; also, freeing, setting at large, or at libertie; also, giuing, dealing, bestowing largely, frankly, bountifully.

Eslargissement: m. An inlarging, dilating, widening; also, a freeing; a giuing of scope vnto, or setting at libertie; also, a large, or liberall giuing, dealing, bestowing. Eslargissement de la prunelle. An imperfection in the eye; when the grapie Membrane being greater then it was, or should be, confounds all obiects, and makes them seeme farre bigger then they be. Defaillir au jour de son eslargissement. To make default on the day of his apparance (whereto he was bound.)

Eslavé: m. ée: f. Moistened, bedeawed, washed ouer; washie, deawie; washed away.

Eslaver. To moisten, bedeaw, wash ouer; wash away.

Eslay: m. A Careere, or course on horsebacke; (an old word.)

Esle. as Aile. Eslection: f. An election, choice, or chusing; also, an Election; the seat, or circuit of an Esleu; a Towne, or Diuision (whereof there be diuers in each Generalitie) within which a certaine number of Esleus doe exercise their iurisdiction.

Esleus: m. ''Generall Assessors of Subsidies, &c; or Magistrates, who, when any Aide, Subsidie, or Imposition is to bee leuied, rate, at a certaine summe, euerie Parish, and Village of the Election, or Diuision wherein they reside; and accordingly send their warrants vnto the particular Officers, or chiefe inhabitants thereof, for the present gathering of what they haue rated: They also take notice of the raising, and maintenance of publicke bankes, and causeyes; and of collections of money for the walling, or fortification of Townes; and (as Iudges) of all actions (whether ciuile, or criminall) that concerne, or come of, any of these matters. At first, when the Aides were not leuied but in time of warre, nor then without consent of the people, they chose two Assessors in euerie Towneship, and from that choyce gaue them this name, which they held no longer then during the leuie: But after that they grew ordinarie, and to be imposed at the pleasure of the Prince, the Esleus changing their Maisters, became his officers, & officers during their liues; yet receiue they still their wages of the people, & sometimes large Espices to boot: Since then they haue increased both in number, and authoritie, so much, that they are now become verie burdensome vnto the whole countrey.''

Esleu: m. euë: f. Elected, chosen, culled, picked out.

Eslevable: com. Fit to be eleuated, raised, aduanced; reared, bred, brought vp.

Eslevation: f. An eleuation; or as Eslevement; also, a rebellion, commotion, or vprising of people.

Eslevé: m. ée: f. Eleuated, raised, lifted, houen vp; aduanced, extolled, promoted; also, risen, swollen, puffed vp, strouted out; bolt vpright; also, high, loftie, hautie, stout; also, heaped, or piled on; also, reared, bred, brought vp.

Eslevement: m. A lifting, raising, heauing vp; aduancing, extolling, promoting; also, a mounting, rising, swelling, puffing vp, strouting out; also, a rearing, breeding, or bringing vp.

Eslever. To eleuate, lift, raise, heaue vp, aduance on high; extoll, promote; also, to heape, lay, pile, or put one thing vpon another; also, to reare, breed, or bring vp.  s'Eslever. To rise, mount, swell, puffe vp, strout out; to grow loftie, hautie, high-minded, proud, presumptuous.

Esleveur: m. A raiser, lifter, mounter, heauer vp; an aduancer; a piler vp; a rearer, breeder, bringer vp of.

Esleveur. Eleuating, lifting, raising vp; and hence; Muscle esleveur. Looke'' Muscle.

Esleveure: f. A raising; or, a rearing; also, a rising, or swelling