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 Esmorcellé: m. ée: f. Peecemealed; beaten, or pulled, intosmall peeces.

Esmorceller. To peecemeale; to beat in peeces, or breakinto small morcells.

Esmotelé: m. ée: f. Whose clods are broken; also, consumed,or eaten.

Esmoteler. as Esmotter; Also, to eat, or consume.

Esmotion: f. An emotion, commotion, sudden, or turbulent stirring; an agitation of the spirit, violent motion of the thoughts, vehement inclination of the mind.

Esmotter. To breake the clods of a plowed land.

Esmoucé: m. ée: f. Dulled, blunted.

Esmoucer. To dull, blunt, or take away the edge of.

Esmouchail: m. as Esmouchoir. Esmouché: m. ée: f. Rid of flies.

Esmouche-lourdaut. A cheater, guller, conicatcher, foisting companion; a craftie flattering knaue; a deceiuer of simple, or sottish people.

Esmoucher. To rid of, or driue away, flies.

Esmoucheté. Flie-blowne; also, pinked, or set with little tufts.

Esmouchette: f. The round tuft, or head of hearbes, wherein their seed is contained.

Des Esmouchettes. A paire of snuffers.

Esmouchoir: m. A flie-flap; or fan to driue away flies.

Esmoüellé. as Esmoëlle. Esmoulage: m. A grinding, whetting, sharpening of.

Esmouldre. To grinde, whet, make sharpe.

Esmoulendier: m. A sheere-grinder.

Esmouleur: m. A grinder, whetter, sharpner of blades.

Esmoulu: m. uë: f. Whetted, sharpened, ground, that hath an edge set on it.  À fer esmoulu. Violently, vehemently, throughly, in full earnest, to the proofe, without boording, with all extremitie.  Gentilhomme frais esmoulu. A gentleman newly forged; a gentleman of the first head.

Esmoulure: f. A grinding, whetting, sharpening, a giuing of an edge vnto.

Esmoussé: m. ée: f. Rid, or bared of mosse.

Esmousser. To rid of mosse, to plucke the mosse from.

Esmouvement: m. A mouing, or stirring vp; an exciting, inciting, vrging, prouoking vnto; also, a tossing, agitation; exercise; wagging, or shaking vp & downe.

Esmouveur: m. A mouer, or stirrer vp; an exciter, inciter, incourager, prouoker, setter on; a picker, putter, egger, or vrger forward.

Esmouvoir. To moue, or stirre vp; to agitate; excite, incite, incourage, prouoke, set on; to pricke, put, vrge, or egge, forward; also, to wag, or shake vp and downe.

Esmoy: m. Carke, care, thought, sorrow, heauinesse, pensiuenesse.

s'Esmoyer de. Earnestly to aske, or enquire, of.

Esmundé: m. ée: f. Rid or cleered of, cleansed or purged from, dead, broken, withered boughes, &c.

Esmundement. as Esmondement; A pruning.

Esmunder. To cleanse; to prune; Seeke Esmonder. Esmutir. as Esmeutir; To mute, or mowt.

Esmutissement. as Esmeut; A muting.

Esmyne. A kind of measure; as Emine. Esnasé: m. ée: f. Noselesse; made noselesse; whose nose is cut off, or pulled away.  Ie me suis esnasé contre. I haue dasht, or almost burst, my nose against.

Esnaser. To make noselesse; to cut, or pull off, the nose.

Esnervé: m. ée: f. Weakened, enfeebled, made sinewlesse, depriued of sinewes.

Esnerver. To weaken, infeeble, make sinewlesse, depriue of sinewes, bereaue of strength.

Esor. Oyseaux esors. Wild, vnmade, or ill-mand hawks; apt, when they are a-wing, to take a toy, or to flie their countrey.

Espace: f. A space, or distance; a respite, pause, intermedium.

Espade: f. A broad short sword.

Espadon: m. A short two-handed sword.

Espagneul: m. A Spaniell.

Espagnol: m. A Spaniard; also, a Spaniell.  Le feu des Espagnols. A hot scorching Sunne.  Vn Espagnol sans Iesuite est vne perdris sans orange: Prov. A Spaniard without a Jesuite is (wee may say) cheese without mustard.

Espagnol: m. ole: f. Spanish, of Spaine.  Espée Espagnole. A Rapier, or Tucke.

Espagnolade: f. A Spanish tricke, blow, bob.

Espagnole. À l'Espagnole. After the Spanish maner, fashion, humor.  Payer à l'Espagnole. To giue knockes in stead of coine; or to rifle such as he should requite; (a phrase deuised by some Dutchman.)

Espagnolé: m. ée: f. Spaniolized; made Spanish, or Spaniard-like.  Corps bien Espagnolé. A bodie made slender.

Espagnolette: f. A Band-supporter of wire in workes done ouer with silke.

Espagnoliser. To play the Spaniard; to speake, or doe like a Spaniard.

Espagnotter. To wooe, to court; as Muguetter. Espaillier. Looke Espallier. Espais. Thicke; Seeke Espez. Espaississant. Thickening.

Espaix: m. Thicknesse, closenesse, densitie, grossenesse.

Espalé: m. ée: f. Scattered, cast, or spred abroad, with a shouell.

Espaler. To scatter, cast, or spread, abroad with a shouell.

Espalier: m. He that rowes with the first oare in a gallie; also, as Espallier. Espaller. as Espaler. Espallier: m. An hedge-row of sundrie fruit trees set close together, their boughes interlaced one within another, and held in with stakes, railes, or pales; also, a buttresse, shore-post, or shouldering peece (in Architecture.)

Espalmé: m. ée: f. Caulked, or pitched ouer, as a ship.

Espame: m. The crampe.

Espamé: m. ée: f. Infeebled, weakened, made leane, as with fasting; also, troubled with a crampe, or convulsion, fallen into a swoond.

Espamer. To infeeble, weaken, make leane, as with fasting; also, as Espausmer. Espampé. roses espampées. Which be fully blowne.

Espampré: m. ée: f. Pruned, as a vine, of superfluous shoots, &c.

Espamprement: m. The pruning of a vine.

Espamprer la vigne. To prune a vine; to plucke, or cut, away the superfluous shoots thereof.

Espan: m. A span.

Espanché: m. ée: f. Squattered, spilled, shed, or powred out in hast, or disorder.

Espanchement: m. A disordered, or hastie squattering, spilling, sheeding, or powring out.

Espancher. To squatter, spill, sheed, or powre out disorderedly, or in hast.  Espancher de l'eau. To spill water; also, to pisse.

Espandable: com. Which may be shed, spilled, powred out.