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 Espandement: m. A sheeding, spilling, powring out; a spreading, dilating, extending.

Espandre. To sheed, spill, powre out; to spread, cast, or scatter abroad in great abundance.  s'espandre. To spread, run abroad; ouerflow, dilate, increase; extend it selfe.

Espandu: m. uë: f. Shed, spilled, powred out; spred, cast, or scattered abroad; dilated, largely extended.

Espani: m. ie: f. Blowen; spred abroad; stretched, displayed.

Espanir. To blow, or spread, as a blooming Rose, or any other flower, in the height of it flourishing; also, to display, stretch, or spread out.

Espanité. as Espavité. Espanouï: m. ie: f. Blowen, displayed, spred out.

Espanouïr. as Espanir. Espanouïssement: m. A blowing, or blooming of flowers; a spreading, or displaying.

Espapilloté: m. ée: f. Bespangled; bespatled, bespotted.

Espapilloter. To bespangle; bespot, bespatle.

Esparcet: m. A kind of thicke grasse, or pulse in Dauphiné, the hay whereof is very good for cattell, and the seed for pulleyn; tis newly sowen euery fourth yeare.

Esparcete. as Parietaire. Pellitorie] of the wall.

Esparcetiere: f. A plot, or close thats sowed with Esparcet. Espardement: m. A scattering, sprinkling, dispersing, dissipation.

Espardre. To scatter, disperse, spread abroad, to dissipate, dissolue, break into many peeces, to cast heere and there.

Esparer. To fling, or yerke out with the heeles, as a horse in a high manage.  Le ciel commence s'esparer. The skie begins to breake; or to scatter, or throw asunder the cloudes that ouercast it.

Esparges. Sparagus.

Espargnant. Hard, neere, warie, thriftie, scantie, sauing, frugall, sparing, niggardlie, somewhat miserable.

Espargne: f. Thrift, frugalitie, sauing, sparing, warinesse, neerenesse, parcimonie, good husbandrie; also, a strait, compendious, or scantie course of proceeding; also, the Treasurie or Exchequer of a Prince; also, ground reserued, by particular men, onely for pasture.  Taillé d'espargne. Cut with sparing worke; the incutting being filled with enamell, and the work set out, or appearing among it, in gold, &c.

Espargné: m. ée: f. Spared, saued, husbanded; reserued; forgiuen, forborne; also, contriued, cut, or made out of.

Espargner. To spare, saue, husband; forgiue, forbeare, or beare with; also, to contriue, make, or cut, out of.  Sans espargner ne Roy ny Roc. Without mercie, or respect of persons; with as little fauour to one as to another; indifferently, or alike seuerely to all.  Bon mots n'espargnent nul: Prov. See Mot. Ce que chiche espargne, large despend: Pro. That which a niggard saues his heire consumes; or that which one spares another spends.  Marchandise n'espargne nuls: Prov. Ware will deceiue any bodie, spares no bodie.  Qui bien gaigne, & bien espargne devient tantost riche: Prov. He that gets and saues, much, grows quickly rich.

Espargoutte: f. The hearbe Feuerfew, Fedderfew, White-wort, Mother-wort. Petite espargoutte. Starwort, Sharewort, Cudwort. Esparpillé: m. ée: f. Scattered, dispersed, disparkled; also, toused, disordered, disheuelled, as a womans haire; also, spred, wide opened, set farre asunder.

Esparpillement: m. A scattering, dispersing, disparkling of many things asunder; a disordering, disheueling, or vntoward tousing of things; also, a spreading, wide opening, setting farre asunder.

Esparpiller. To scatter, disperse, disparkle asunder; also, to set wide open, or far asunder; also, to disheuell, disorder, touse, as a womans haire.  Esparpiller son beurre. To spread his butter.

Esparre. The barre of yron thats nailed on a doore, and turnes at th' end on the hindge.

Espars. Scattered, dispersed, dissipated, dismembred, rent, or broken into many parcels, cast here and there.

Esparsément. Scatteringly, disorderedly, vncertainly, here and there, all abroad, not one neere to another.

Espartant. Scattering, dispersing, diuiding, far-sundering.

Espartillé: m. ée: f. Disparkled; or dispersed; infused by small parcells; diuided by partitions.

Espartir. To scatter, disperse, part, diuide, set asunder.

Esparvain: m. A spauen in the leg of a horse, or beast.

Esparvier: m. A Sparhawke, or Sparrow-hawke; and (more generally) a short-wingd hawke; also, a great Sweepe-net for fishing.  Esparvier de Montagu. A lowse.  Herbe d'esparvier. as Cichorée iaulne. Mieux vault mestier qu'esparvier. Better is a good occupation then hawking; or, better it is to follow a trade then a Hawke.  On ne peut faire d'hibou esparvier: Prov. He thats a clowne by nature, cannot be gentilized by nurture; The like is;  On ne peut d'vn Pigeon faire vn vif esparvier: Prov. Espase: f. A sword: ¶Langued. Peis espase. Looke Spase. Espaté: m. ée: f. Broad-footed, flat-footed; well vnder-*layed; well spred, or of a good breadth, at the bottom; well grounded, fixed, setled, at the foot.

Espatement: m. The (broad) foot, or footing; the ground-*worke or foundation, of.

s'Espater. To be broad-footed, or wel vnderlaid; to spread, haue some compasse, beare a good breadth, at the bottome; and (thereby) to be well grounded, fixed, setled.

Espatté. as Espaté. Espattement. as Espatement. Espatule: f. A (Chirurgions, or Apothecaries) little slice.

Espave. A waife, or stray; a chattell, or beast vnowned; any thing whose originall, or owner, is not knowne; (hence) also, a stranger borne in a farre countrey.  Espave & effreinte des chiens. A foule default of dogs, hauing vtterly lost both sight, and sent, of the game which they hunted.

Espave: com. Maisterlesse; without author, or owner; also, forreine, farre-borne; of vnknowne birth, or beginning.  Mots espaves. Strange, new-forged, vnaccustomed, words.

Espavent: m. A Spauen in a horse.

Espavité: f. The right a Soueraigne Lord hath to the lands, or goods of strangers, dying within his dominions; or the heing a stranger; as Espave.

Espaulart: m. A Sea-monster, enemie to Whales; as Orque.

Espaule: f. A shoulder.