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 Esperit. Seeke Esprit. Esperlan: m. A Smelt.

Esperlucat: m. A locke, or bush of curled haire. (v.m.) also, a neat, spruce, pleasant, and liuelie companion; a feat, or deft youth.

Esperon: m. A spurre; also, a kind of fortification called, a Spurre; also, the stemme, nose, or beake-head of a gallie.  La Iournée des esperons. Looke Iournée. Os de l'esperon. The lesse bone of the leg.  À esperons pareils. With both spurres at once, and in the same part, of each side of a horse.  Arrondir les esperons. Looke Arrondir. Chausser les esperons à. To course, or pursue amaine, to giue hard chace vnto; to make one runne, or scud away as fire were at his taile; also, to hasten, or make forward, in.  Dur à l'esperon. Dull, sluggish, heauie-mettalled; that will not be moued, or put forward by any instigation.  À morceau restif esperon de vin: Prov. (A cup of sacke agrees with a cold stomacke;) a restiue morsell needs a spurre of wine.  Tout cheval a besoing d'esperon: Prov. All men haue need of some correction.  Le vilain ne sçait qu'esperons valent: Prov. Full little knowes the clowne what spurres can doe; base people know not, or cannot vse, braue helpes.

Esperonnade: f. A spurring; a iert, or pricke, with a spurre.

Esperonné: m. ée: f. Spurred; also, bespurred, hauing spurres on his heeles.  Fol est qui est esperonné, & à cheval dit, hay: Pro. Looke Hay. Esperonnement: m. A spurring; a pricking forward; an inciting, or vrging onward.

Esperonner. To spurre; pricke forward; incite, or vrge, onward.  s'Esperonner. To put on his owne spurres; also, to pricke himselfe on.

Esperonnier: m. A Spurrier; also, a Bit-maker.

Esperonnier. m. ere: f. Belonging to a spurre; or to the lesse bone of the leg.  Muscle esperonnier. A double muscle; one of the fiue whereby we stretch out the first part of our feet.

Esperruqué: m. ée: f. That weares long lockes, or curled haire.

Espervain: m. A splint in a horses leg.

Espervier. Eooke Esparvier. Espessement. Thickly, spissely, close together.

Espesseur: f. Thicknesse, densitie, spissenesse, closenesse; massiuenesse, bignesse, grossenesse.

Espessi: m. ie: f. Thickened; compacted, closed hard together; ingrossed, made big.

Espessir. To thicken; ingrosse, increase, make big; to compact, or close hard together.

Espessissement: m. A thickning; an ingrossing, or making big; a compacting, or closing hard together.

Espessisseure: f. as Espesseur. Espeuré: m. ée: f. Frightened, affrighted, affrayed, made fearefull.

Espeurer. To frighten, affright, make fearefull, affray.

Espez: m. esse: f. Thicke; massiue, grosse, big; close, neere, hard compact together.

Espi de bled. An eare of corne. Espi d'eau. Pond-weed, Water-spike; (an hearbe.) Espi de lard. Seeke Espis. Tuiles couchées en façon d'espi. Laied edgelong, or edge to edge.

Espiant. Spying, prying, watching, marking, obseruing narrrowly; dogging, way-laying, lying for.

Espice: f. Spice; also, the Spice-apple (whereof excellent Cyder is made.)  Espices: Spices, or Spice; also, the fees that be taken by the (French) Judges, and their assistants, for Bookes perused, Consultations had, and sentence giuen, in a cause; (from the auncient manner of gratefull suitors; who, hauing preuailed, were woont to present the Judges, or the Reporters, of their causes, with Comfets, or other Jonkets; which gratuitie they afterwards turned into money, and by degrees haue suffered it to become a dutie, and (as it is at this day) the onely, or best, reuenew belonging to Judiciall places.)   L'on perd l'appareil d'vne poule, à faute d'acheter pour vn liard d'espices: Prov. Some to spare a pennie loose the vse of that which cost them a pound.

Espicé: m. ée: f. Spiced; seasoned, or sweetened with spice.  Telle cause est espicée. The fees due to the Judges, &c, vpon such a cause bee taxed, rated, or set downe.

Espicenaire: com. Of both sexes, male and female.

Espicer. To bespice; to season, or sweeten with spice; also, to taxe, rate, or set downe the Judges fees, or Espices, in a cause.

Espicerie: f. A Spicerie; also, Spices.  Es petis sacs sont les fines espiceries: Prov. The finest Spices are in little bags.

Espiceur: m. A taker, or taxer, of fees.

Espicier: m. A Grocer, a seller of Spices, a Drug-seller.

Espie: f. A spie, scowt, espiall; priuie marker, obseruer, dogger of people; eaue-dropper, prying companion.  Espies. Ambushes, way-layings; malicious obseruing, treacherous dogging, of people.

Espié: m. ée: f. Resembling an eare of corne; also, eared; growne to an eare; (as le bled est espié;) also, spied, watched, way layed, narrowly obserued.  Lard espié. Seeke Lard. Espiecé: m. ée: f. Peecemealed; cut, broken, or torne in peeces.

Espiecer. To diuide, peecemeale; cut, breake, or teare in peeces.

Espiement: m. A spying, scowting, prying, watching, marking, narrow obseruing; a lying in ambush, or in wait for.

Espier. To spie, watch, marke, prie into; obserue narrowly; to dog, lie for, way-lay; also, to eare, or shoot out in an eare, as a blade of corne.

Espierré: m. ée: f. Vnstoned: rid from, cleered of, stones.

Espierrement. A picking stones off land, a ridding from stones.

Espierrer. To vnstone; to rid from stones; to picke stones from.

Espierreur: m. A stone-picker, stone-gatherer.

Espieu: m. A Boare-speare; a hunting staffe, or Jauelin; also, a Partisan, or Captaines leadingstaffe.

Espieur: m. A spier, marker, obseruer; also, a scowt, or watchman.  Espieur des chemins. A taker, purse-taker, theefe on the high-way, one of Robinhoods followers, one of S. Nicholas Clerkes.

Espij d-'eau. as Espi d'eau.

Espinal: m. A thornie groue, plot, or place.