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 Par dessus l'espaule. Ouer the shoulder, or the wrong way; and hence; Riche, ou vertueux, par dessus l'espaule; (signifies) a verie begger, or, an arrant knaue.  Baisser les espaules. To yeeld; or vndergoe.  Faire espaule à. To helpe, assist, second, back, support.  Hausser l'espaule. To lift vp the shoulders; (a gesture gotten from th' Italians, and much vsed when wee refuse to doe a thing which we are afraid, or loath, to meddle with; and imports as much, as if wee should say, you shall pardon me sir; &c.)  Porter à deux espaules. (In a faction) to shift often from side to side; to adhere sometimes vnto th' one, sometimes to th' other; or, to be neither constant, nor verie behouefull, to either.  Porter sur les espaules. To carrie a burthen on his shoulders; also, to grow wearie of, or find himselfe ouer-*charged with.  Pousser le temps à l'espaule. To delay, or driue off, the time; to spend, or passe away his dayes idly, but so so; or, euen as he may.  Prester espaule à. To helpe to beare, to lend a helping hand vnto.  Ie me recommande à leurs espaules. Woe to their shoulders; or, their shoulders are like to pay for it; or, their shoulders are sure of a whipping.  Sentir son espaule de mouton. To smell verie rank, verie strong, verie rammish.  Tenir espaule à. as Faire espaule. Tirer l'espaule. To shrinke in the shoulders, as one that likes not what he sees, or heares.  Les belles robbes pleurent sur des espaules indignes: Prov. Good clothes weepe on vnworthie shoulders.

Espaulé: m. ée: f. Whose shoulder is burst, or out of ioynt.  Vne beste espaulée. Crackt stuffe, broken ware; a wench that hath had a clap.

Espaulée: f. par espaulées. By fits, by shoues, by diuers shoulderings; now and then; with many pauses betweene.

Espaulement: m. A bursting, or vnioynting of the shoulder.

Espauler. To burst a shoulder; to put a shoulder out of ioynt; also, to shoulder; to support with, or beare on, the shoulders.

Espauletée. as Espaulée; whence;  Reprendre, ou refaire vne muraille par espauletées. To repaire a wall by parcells, without taking any of it downe.

Espaulette: f. A little shoulder; also, the wing of a gowne, doublet; &c; also, a buttreße, shore-post, or shouldering peece.  Maçonnerie à espaulettes. Vneuen worke in walls, &c, built vp by fits, and peeces, and by those intermissions, left higher in one part then in another; or, shouldering, bearing, or standing out in one place more then in another.

Espaulier. Belonging to, supporting or seruing for, the shoulder.  Veine espauliere. See Veine. Espauliere: f. A shoulder peece; the peece of armour, or apparell that serues for the shoulder; also, a buttresse, shore-peece, or shouldering peece to support, or strengthen a wall.

Espaulu: m. uë: f. Broad-shouldered.

Espaulure: f. as Espaulement.

Espausmer. To fall in a swoone. (v.m.)

Espausmure: f. A swoonding, or falling into a trance. Espautré: m. ée: f. Pelted, pauted, beaten, thrashed.

Espautrer. To paut, pelt, thresh, beat, crush, bruise.

Espe. (at Blois) as Empan (in other places.)

Espeaultre. Spelt, or spelt-corne.

Espece: f. A kind, or sort of.

Especial. par especial. Especially, particularly, peculiarly.

Espectative. estre à l'espectative. To stand waiting, looking, attending, expecting for.

Espée: f. A Sword; Rapier; Tucke; a Glaiue, Cuttelasse, Faucheon, Hanger; Blade; also, a certaine round staffe, that lies betweene the vpper boords of a Vine-*presse, and the mother, or substance of the grapes; (sometimes) also, valour; and, a valiant man; (c'est vn'des meilleures espées de la France.)  Espée d'armes. as Espée de Chevalier; or, Estoc d'armes. Espée blanche. Looke Blanc. Espée des bleds. Corne sedge, corne flags, corne gladen.  Espée de Chevalier. A sharpe, and broad sword, of a reasonable length, and plaine-hilted, hauing but onely one crosse-barre.  Espée Espagnole. A Rapier, or Tucke.  Espée Hunisque. A kind of Scimiter.  Espée de mer. The Sword-fish.  Espée misericorde. Looke Misericorde. Espée des moissons Corne sedge, corne gladen.  Espée rabatuë. A foile.  Espée Romaine. Certaine twined, and retorted haires on a horse; resembling, and by some called, a feather.  Pled de l'espée. High iurisdiction; authoritie to punish, or pursue, offendors with the sword.  Sergent de l'espée. Looke Sergent. Hardi comme vne espée. As bold, or hardie as a sword (which is oft more bold then welcome.)  Iouër de l'espée à deux Iambes. To shew a faire paire of heeles; to runne away.  S'en iouër de l'espée à deux mains, To doe what he list withall; See Iouër. Espelé: m. ée: f. Spealed, spelled; pilled, flayed.

Espelement: m. A spelling, or spealing of words; a ioyning of letters, or of sillables together.

Espeler. To spell, to speale; to ioyne letters, or sillables together; to make of letters sillables, of sillables words; also, to flea, pill, or pull the skinne, or rind off.

Espeller. as Espeler; (Especially in the last signification.)

Espeluche: f. Plush.

Espendre. Looke Espandre. Espenaillé: m. ée: f. Torne, ragged, all to tatters.

Espeoir. Seeke Espoir. Esperable: com. Hopeable, fit to be hoped for; hopefull.

Esperance: f. Hope, trust, confidence, offiance.  En esperance d'avoir mieux tant vit le loup, qu'il devient vieux: Prov. The Wolfe growes old by hoping still for better; or, while the Wolfe hopes for better hee growes old.

Esperdu: m. uë: f. Forlorne, lost, foregone, farre-gone, in a desperate or miserable taking; also, dismaied, astonished, appalled, amazed, abashed.

Esperdument. Desperately, forlornely; dismayedly, amazedly; vtterly, extreamely, without measure.

Esperé: m. ée: f. Hoped for, trusted after.

Esperer. To hope, trust, haue affiance, repose confidence, in.