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 Esplucheures: f. The pickings, or cullings; the pluckings, or teysings of.

Esplugebant. A kind of riuer-fowle.

Esplumé: m. ée: f. Plucked, vnplumed, without feathers; bereaued, or bared, of feathers.

Espluquer. as Esplucher. ¶Pic. Espluyé: m. ée: f. Sprinkled, spatled, or spattered vpon.

Espluyer. To sprinkle, spattle, spatter, or cast vpon.

Espoictriné, &c. Looke Espoitriné. Espoinçonner. as Espoindre. Espoinct: m. cte: f. Pricked, spurred; incited, prouoked, violently moued, vehemently stirred.

Espoincté: m. ée: f. Vnpointed, blunted; whose point is dulled, broken, or cut off.

Espoincter. To vnpoint, or blunt; to dull, breake, or cut off the point of.

Espoindre. To prick, spurre; prouoke, vrge, incite; stirre vehemently, moue extreamely.

Espointement: m. An vnpointing; a blunting; a breaking the point of.  Espointement de questions. A pacifying of quarrels, a quieting of altercations; also, a resolution of questions.

Espointer. as Espoincter. Espoir: m. Hope, trust, confidence, affiance.

Espois d'un cerf. The top of a red Deeres head; of a fallow, the Spellers.

Espois. as Espez; thicke.

Espoissir. To thicken; Seeke Espessir. Espoitriné: m. ée: f. Open breasted; whose bosome lyes open to view.

Espoitronnement: m. A discouering of the bosome, a going open breasted.

Esponce d'heritage: f. A quitting, abandoning, forgoing, giuing ouer an estate in land.

Esponcé: m. ée: f. Quit, left, abandoned, forgone, giuen ouer.

Esponcer. To quit, leaue, abandon, forsake, forgoe, giue ouer.

Esponcion. as Esponce. Esponge: f. A Spunge.  Esponges d'asperge. The clottered root of garden Sparagus.  Esponge d'eau douce. A certaine hearbe, that flotes on riuers, and is called, Spunge of the riuer.  Esponges femelles. Those which haue the fewest, and least holes.  Esponge de riviere. Spunge of the riuer; an hearbe.  Pierre d'esponge. Looke Pierre. Porter l'esponge; ou, passer l'esponge, sur. To deface, or blot out.  Espongette: f. A little Spunge.   Espongette du Rosier sauvage. A Brier-ball, or canker-Rose ball; the round, and spungie excrescence, which cleaues to the branch of a wild Rose, brier-Rose, or Hep tree.

Espongieux: m. euse: f. Spungie; full of Spunges; light, or full of holes, like a Spunge.

Esporle: f. A vassals acknowledgement of the seruices, and duties which he owes vnto his Lord.

Esporler. A vassall to acknowledge the duties and seruices he owes, to his Lord.

Esporte: f. A handbasket.

Espoudré: m. ée: f. Dusted; cleered from, cleansed of, dust.

Espoudrer. To dust; to beat, or wipe the dust from; to cleanse, or cleere from dust. Espoventable: com. Dreadfull, frightfull, fearefull; horrible, gastfull, horride; monstrous, terrible; able to scare, or amaze any man.

Espoventablement. Dreadfully, frightfully, fearefully; terribly, horribly, ghastfully, with great amazement.

Espoventail: m. A Bug-beare, or Scar-crow; a man of clouts to feare birds with.

Espoventaire. The same.

Espoventant. Frighting, flighting, skaring, terrifying, amazing with dread, filling with horror.

Espovente: f. Dread, fright, great feare; terror, horror, ghastlinesse; astonishment, consternation, amazement.  Ils ont prins l'espovente. They are mightily skared; they haue taken a terrible allarum; they are afraid of euerie feather that wags, or shadow that appeares; or, they scud away as fast, and as fearefully, as if fire were at their tayles.

Espoventé: m. ée: f. Frighted, frayed, monstrously afrayed, skared, terrified; appalled by dread, amazed by terror, filled with horror.

Espoventement: m. as Espovente; or, a frighting, fraying, skaring, terrifying.

Espoventer. To fright, flight, fray, terrifie, feare exceedingly; amaze, appall, astonish by feare; fill with horror or terror, or with horrible or terrible apprehensions.

Espouillé: m. ée: f. Lowsed, rid of lice.

Espouiller. To lowse, kill lice, rid of lice.

Espouilleresse: f. A woman that picketh, or killeth, lice.

Espousailles: f. An Espousalls, or Bridall; a wedding, or mariage.

Espouse: f. A Spowse; a Wife.  Espouse du soleil. The Marygould; so called by some.

Espousé: m. ée: f. Espoused, wedded, married.

Espousée: f. A Spouse, an Espoused.

Espouser. To espouse, wed, marrie; also, to defend, imbrace, vndertake, intertaine as his owne, take wholly vpon him; whence; Espouser la querelle d'aucun. Espouser la gruë. See Gruë. Espouser vne rouë. To be broken vpon a wheele.

Espousse. as Pousse; a disease in a horse.

Espousseté: m. ée: f. Brushed; dusted; wiped downe.

Espousseter. To brush; dust, wipe the dust off.

Espoussette: f. A brush; also, a duster, or dusting cloth for a horse; and hence;  Donner des espoussettes, (que ie ne die des estrivieres) à. Lightly to touch, (if not to tax.)

Espouventable, &c. Looke Espoventable, &c. Espoux: m. A Spouse, Bridegroome, new married man; one that is married, wedded, espoused.

Espoys. The vttermost, or vppermost branches of a Deeres head; Looke Espois. Espraintes. The dung of an Otter, or other such vermine.

Espreinctes. as Espraintes. Espreindre. To presse, wring, straine, squeese out, thrust together.

Espreint: m. te: f. Pressed, wrung, strained, squeesed out, thrust hard together.

Espreinte: f. A pressing, straining, wringing, thrusting together; a squeesing out; also, a great desire to goe to the stoole.

Espreintes. as Espraintes.