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 Esquicher. To imbosse; to make a rude, or sleight, or the first, draught of a Modell, or Platforme.

Esquierre: f. A Rule, or Squire; an Instrument vsed by Masons, Carpenters, Joyners, &c; also, an Instrument wherewith Surueyors measure land.  Vn trait d'esquierre. A perpendicular line, or measure; tearmed so by workemen.  À l'esquierre. Iustly, directly, euenly, straightly; by line and leuell, to a haire.  Aux esquierres des Cloches, & Eglises. Iust ouer against the Steeples, and Churches; or, as farre as the Steeples, and Churches.

Esquiers. as Esquierres. Esquif: m. A Skiffe, or little boat; also, the bone Scaphoïde; called so, because it somewhat resembles a small Skiffe.

Esquifon: m. A little Skiffe, a verie small boat.

Esquignon: m. A fescue; ¶Pic. Esquignonné: m. ée: f. Cut, or broken off, as a lumpe, cantle, or crustie heele from a loafe of bread; also, cut, or broken into lumpes, luncheons, or cantles.

Esquignonner. To cut, or breake off a lumpe, cantle, crustie heele, or peece from a loafe of bread; also, to cut, or breake into lumpes, luncheons, or cantles.

Esquille: f. A little scale, or splint of a broken bone, &c.

Esquilleux: m. euse: f. Splintie, scalie, full of little splints, or scales.

Esquinance: f. The Squincie, or Squinancie; (a disease.)

Esquine. Bois d'esquine. The knottie, and medicinall root of a certaine Indian Bull-rush.

Esquiper. as Equiper. Esquirener. To breake the backe. ¶Gasc. ¶Rab. Esquivé: m. ée: f. Shunned, eschewed, auoided; also, scorned, reiected, despised; also, shifted away; slipped aside.

Esquiver. To shun, auoid, eschew; to scorne, reiect, despise; to shift away; to slinke, or slip aside.

Esquoüé. as Escoüé. Esraciné: m. ée: f. Rooted vp, or plucked vp by the root.

Esraciner. To root vp; or, plucke vp by the root.

Esrafflade: f. A scratch, or scratching.

Esrafflé: m. ée: f. Scraped, scratched.

Esraffler. To scrape, or scratch.

Esraillé: m. ée: f. Spred, or set wide open; staring; shaling, stradling or stradled; also, frayed.  Oeil esraillé. An eye whose lower lid (by a cicatrice, or other accident) is reuersed, leauing that part of the white altogether vncouered.

Esraillement: m. A spreading abroad, or setting wide open; a staring; stradling, shaling; fraying.

Esrailler. To spread, or set wide open; hence, to stare; stradle, shale; also, to fray, as in starching.

Esrené: m. ée: f. Feeble, weake, broken-reinde, loose-backt; vnfit for Venerie, vtterly disabled (that way.)

Esrener. To weaken, infeeble, breake, or crush the reines.

Essaim: m. as Essain. Essaimer. To swarme, as Bees.

Essain: m. A Swarme (of Bees.)

Essais de fourrage. Scatterings, or leauings, of fodder.

Essangé: m. ée: f. Wet, as linnen before it be layed in the bucking tub.

Essanger. To wet linnen, before it be layed in the bucking tub.

Essardé: m. ée: f. Dry, thirstie, lacking moisture; burnt vp. Soif essardée. An extreame thirst, a thirst which can hardly be quenched.

Essargoter. as Essarter. Essart: m. A glade in a wood; also, a peece of vntilled ground.

Essarté: m. ée: f. Gladed; made into a glade; or, wherein glades are made; also, lopped off, as the boughes of a tree; or bared, as a tree of boughes; also, grubd vp, as bushes, &c, or, cleered, as a ground of bushes, &c.

Essartement: m. A glading; lopping; grubbing vp of, or cleering of a ground from, shrubs, &c.

Essarter. To glade, or make glades in a wood; also, to lop off the boughes of a tree, or bare, as a tree, of boughes; also, to grub vp, or cleere a ground of, bushes, shrubs, thornes, &c.

Essaur: m. as Essor. Essay: m. An essay, proofe, tryall, experiment; an offer, attempt; a tast, or touch of a thing to know it by; also, the tast, or Essay taken of a Princes meat, or drinke; also, the vessell whereout, or peece whereof, it is taken.  Essay de bled. A tryall, or proofe of Corne; a course taken to know how much it weighes, and how much flower, meale, and branne it yeelds, when it is ground, in respect of that which it weighed, and was, before.  Coup d'essay. The Maister-peece of a young workeman, or of one thats but newly come out of his yeares; a beginning, entrance, onset, attempt; a flourish, or preamble, whereby a tast of a thing is giuen, or taken.

Essayant. Essaying; trying, prouing, tasting, attempting; feeling before hand.

Essayé: m. ée: f. Essayed, tried, proued, attempted; tasted, felt before hand.

Essayer. To essay; try, proue, tast, attempt; take a tast, make a tryall of; to feele before hand.  Essayer à prendre. To catch, reach, leape at; offer to take.

Essayerie: f. A trying-house.

Essayeur: m. An essayer; tryer, prouer; attempter; one that tasts, or takes an assay; and particularly, an Officer in the Mint, who touches euerie kind of new coyne before it be deliuered out.

Esse. The letter S; also, the forme of an S in any workmanship.

Esseau: m. A Coopers chipping ax.

Essedaires. A kind of warriors in old time, who marched in waggons, but fought on foot, and hard layed to, retyred againe to their waggons.

Esseillé: m. ée: f. Wasted, consumed. ¶Pic. Esseiller. To wast, or consume. ¶Pic. Essein. as Essain; a swarme.

Esseiner. To swarme (as Bees.)

Essemé: m. ée: f. Inseamed; vnfattened; cleansed from, purged of, grossenesse or grosse humors; also, swarmed.

Essemement: m. An inseaming, vnfattening; cleansing; also, a swarming.

Essemer. To inseame; vnfatten; cleanse from, or purge of, grossenesse or grosse humors; also, to swarme.

Essence: f. An essence, or being; the nature, or subsistence of things.

Essencié. as Essentié. Essencier. To bring vnto the same nature, or being, that another is of; to make, or become both of one nature, and essence; essentially to mingle with, or be ioyned vnto.

Essende: f. A Shingle (of wood.)

Essentié: m. ée: f. Made, or become, of one essence with;