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 souldiors; tearmed so in old time, because they were appointed together vnto certaine places, or standings; which they were to hold, or make good.

Establir. To establish; to settle, fix, confirme, assure, make stedfast, set fast; to enact, institute, ordaine, appoint surely.

Establissement: m. An establishment, or stablishing; a setling, assuring, fixing, confirming; also, an instituting, enacting, ordaining, appointing; in law, the setling of a possession; and hence;  Enqueste d'establissement. Looke Enqueste. Establisseur: m. An establisher; setler, fixer; confirmer, enacter.

Estacade: f. A Lists; or place rayled in for a combat.

Estacher. To fasten, to tye; Seeke Attacher. Estacquer. To marke for his owne; to set his marke vpon.

Estaffier: m. A Lackey, or foot-boy, that runnes by the stirrup; a footman, or seruingman that waites afoot, while his Master rides; also, an armed Sergeant attending on an Officer of Iustice.  Estaffier S. Martin. The deuill. ¶Rab. Estaffillade: f. A stripe, ierke, or lash with a whip, or strap of leather; also, a slash ouer the face.

Estage: m. A storie, stage, loft, or height of a house; also, a lodging, dwelling, house, or place of abiding; also, lastage, or the balast of a ship.  L'estage de rez de chaussée. The floore, or lowest roome of a house.  Droict d'estage. A fee, or custome exacted for the harbouring of forraine corne within the ports, or hauens of some townes in France.

Estager: m. A vassall, subiect, inhabitant; one that hath a house, or dwelling vnder one Lord, or other; a tenant, and dweller within such or such a Libertie, or Mannor.

Estagier: m. as Estager. Estagné: m. ée: f. Guelt, or lopped, as a tree.

Estagner. To gueld trees, to lop, or cut off their branches.

Estagues. Two ropes (fastened to the middle of the maine yard) which passing through the Encornal, serue to hoise vp the sayle; we call them, Tyes.

Estaie: f. as Estaye. Estaier. Looke Estayer. Estail: m. as Estal; a stall.  Il leur tient estail. He holds them tacke, or play.

Estaillé. (Barbet estaillé.) Handsomely clipt, or shorne; so cut, as he lookes like a Lyon.

Estailleures de pierres. Shards, or peeces that fly from stones in the hewing, or squaring of them.

Estaillier: m. A stall-man; or the foreman of a shop; he that lookes to the stall, and there exposes his ware to shew, and sale.

Estails: m. Tyes; the strings, or ropes of sayles. ¶Rab. Estaim: m. Tynne.  Estaim de Cornoüaille. as Estain doux. Estaim doux. The best kind of Tynne; gotten in Cornwall.  Estaim de glace. Another kind, vsed in the tinning of the backsides of Looking-glasses, and for the dust of houre-glasses; being of a substance most thinne, small, euen, dry, and little subiect to giuing by anie change of weather.  Estaim sonnant. Pewter.

Estaimmé: m. ée: f. Tinned; leaded.

Estaimmer. To tinne; to lead; to couer, glaze, or doe ouer with Tynne, &c. Estain. as Estaim; also, fine woollen (or linnen) yarne, thread, or woofe.  Bouc d'estain. The great-bearded, and long-horned wild goat, Ibex. Estainct: m. cte: f. Extinguished, quenched, put out; spent, lost, abolished, vtterly perished; consumed, come to nought.  À la chandelle estaincte. Looke Chandelle. Estaingnier: m. A Pewterer, a Tinner.

Estainier: m. ere: f. Of Tynne, or Pewter; belonging vnto Tynne, or Pewter.

Estal: m. The stall of a shop, or booth; any thing whereon wares are layed, and shewed to be sold.

Estalé: m. ée: f. Displayed, opened, set, layed abroad, spred wide; exposed vnto view, as ware, on a stall.

Estaler. To display, vnfould, shew, spread wide, lay open wares on stalls; to expose vnto the view of all passengers, commers, customers; to place, or set vpon a stall.

Estalier: m. as Estaillier. Estallage: m. Stallage.

Estallé. as Estalé; or set, or placed, as a commoditie, on a stall.

Estallement: m. The stall of a shop; also, the laying out of wares vpon a stall; a displaying; an exposing vnto publike view.

Estaller. as Estaler. Estallier. as Estaillier. Estallon: m. The iust quantitie, scantling, patterne, or size, of measures appointed by authoritie, and commonly hung vp in some publike place of a towne; Looke Estalon. Estallonnage. as Estallonnement; also, a fee due for that assizing; or the power, or priuiledge, to assize publike weights, and measures.

Estallonné: m. ée: f. (Of a measure) assized; reduced vnto the iust proportion of the common size, and stamped with the publike marke; Looke Estalonné. Estallonnement: m. The assizing of measures.

Estallonner. as Estalonner. Estalon. as Estallon; also, a Stalion for Mares; also, a stale (as a Larke, &c) wherewith Fowlers traine sillie birds vnto their destruction; also, as Baliveau, a Stander in a wood; also, a short, and thicke peg, or peece of timber, whereby two sparres are fastened byas-wise together.

Estalonage. as Estallonnage. Estaloner. as Estalonner. Estalonné: m. ée: f. as Estallonné; also, couered, as a Mare, with a horse; and hence;  Iument estalonnée. A Mare which hath taken the horse.

Estalonner. To assize measures; to adiust weights; to giue them their iust scantling, their due size; also, to make a horse a Stalion; or to turne him among Mares; also, to play the Stalion, or couer Mares.  Estalonner vn soulier[*unsure of spelling]. To tread a shooe downe at the heeles.

Estambor: m. A peece of wood in a ship, that extends from the Keele to the top of the Poupe, and bends together with it; we call it, the Sterne post.

Estambres. The two thicke peeces of wood that enuiron the hole through which a Mast passes the Decke, or Hatches; we call them Partnours.

Estamé: m. Worsted; or, as Estamer.

Estamé: m. ée: f. Tynned; or, done ouer with tynne; glazed, made smooth, and sleeke, as an earthen vessell.