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 Plus estourdi que le premier son de Matines; Looke Matines. Estourdie: f. as Estourdissement. Á l'estourdie. as, à l'estourdi. Estourdir. To astonish, amaze, dull, trouble the braines, depriue of wit, and heed; make giddie, or dizzie in the head; also, to mall, or knocke downe.  Estourdir ses morceaux. To chaw his meat ill, or swallow it downe without chawing (hauing rouled it once about his mouth;) we say, to make bricke walls.

Estourdissement: m. A dulling, amazing, astonishing, depriuing of sence, wit, heed; also, an amazednesse, astonishment, sencelesnesse, dizzinesse, or the swimming of the head; also, heedlesnesse, inconsideration, vnaduisedness, rashnesse, retchlesnesse, carelesnesse; and, sottishnesse, dulnesse, blockishnesse; also, a malling, felling, or knocking downe.

Estourgeon: m. A Sturgeon; the fish Sturgeon.

Estourneau: m. A Stare, or Starling.

Estrace: f. Raw silke thats so ruffled or tangled, as it cannot be wound, and therefore they are faine to card, and afterwards to spin, it.

Estrade: f. A street; a way, a high way.  Batteurs d'estrad. The Scouts, Forrager, or Fore-runners of an Armie; also, Purse-takers, Boot-halers, or S. Nicholas clarkes.

Estradiot: m. A light-horse, an Albanian horseman; a Carbine.

Estradiote. Chevaucher à l'Estradiote. To ride long, or with long stirrups.

Estragon: m. The hearbe Tarragon.

Estraigné: m. ée: f. Wrung, or griped within the fist.

Estraigner. To wring, or gripe with the fist.  Trop embrasser, & peu estraigner. To haue too many yrons in the fire at once; to deale in so many trades (or matters) that he can thriue by none.

Estrain: m. Straw; litter, fodder of straw, or stuble.  De grand train sur l'estrain: Prov. From (keeping) a great traine into the straw; viz. vnto beggerie.

Estraincte: f. as Estreinte. Estraindre. To strayne, wring hard, bind fast, thrust vp close together; Looke Estreindre. Estraines. as Estreines. Estrainte: f. as Estreinte; also, a kind of close buckle, or claspe (most commonly of siluer) vsed in the fastnings of clokes, hatbands, womens girdles, &c, and much more close, and comelie then the ordinarie buckle, or claspe.

Estraires. as Estrayeres; or as Espaves. Estraïure: f. An Escheat, or Perquisitie; an Escheating.

Estramaçon: m. A downe-right blow; gash, or cut; also, a cuff, bang, rap.

Estrancher. as Trancher; to cut.

Estrangé: m. ée: f. Estranged, alienated, altered, seperated from; growne fremme, or out of knowledge, and acquaintance.

Estrange: com. Strange, vncouth, vnusuall; forraine, alien, outlandish; vnaccustomed, unacquainted; also, harsh, rude, od (in condition, or constitution.)

Estrangemént: m. An estranging, or alienating himselfe from others; a shunning of companie; a quitting of all vsuall fashions.

Estrangément. Strangely, vnusually, wonderfully; out of ordinarie course, in an vncouth manner.

Estranger: m. as Estrangier.

Estranger. To estrange, alienate; alter, diuide, seperate, withdraw from. Sestranger de. To shun, auoid; leaue the haunt of; withdraw his mind, disuse himselfe, from.

Estrangeté: f. Strangenesse, vnwontednesse, vncouthnesse; also, a strange act, or accident; a rare, or wonderfull matter; (In which sence tis most vsed in the Plurall number;) also, rudenesse, harshnesse, frowardnesse, peruersenesse.

Estrangier: m. A stranger, alien, forreiner, an outlander, or outlandish man; also, a fremme bodie, that is neither a dweller with, nor of kinne vnto, vs; one with whom we haue no familiaritie, or hold no correspondencie.

Estranglé: m. ée: f. Strangled, stifled, choaked, throtled, whirkned, smoothered.

Estrangle-leopard: m. Libbards bane, Crayfish wolues-bane;(an hearbe.)

Estrangle-loup. Wolues-bane, Wolfe-wort; (a most pernicious hearbe.)

Estranglement: m. A strangling, stifling, throtling, whirkning, choaking.

Estrangler. To strangle, choake, throtle, stifle, whirken, smother.

Estranguillon. Poire d'es. A choake peare.  Pomme d'estranguillon. A Crab, or Wilding.

Estranguillons: m. The Strangles; a disease (in horses, &c.)

Estrapade: f. The punishment called, the Strappado.

Estrapassé: m. ée: f. Harried, ouer-toyled, oppressed with labour, whereof too much is taken.

Estrapasser. To harrie, ouer-toyle, oppresse with labour, take too much of.

Estraper. To mow, or cut downe stuble.

Estrapoire. as Estrappoire. Estrappade. as Estrapade. Estrappé: m. ée: f. Mowed, or cut downe, as stuble.

Estrapper. To mow, or cut downe, stuble.

Estrappoire: f. A kind of little, and long-handled Sickle, wherewith stuble is cut downe.

Estrasse. as Estrace. Estrassier: m. One that cards, or spinnes ruffled silke.

Estrave: f. The stemme, or stemme-post of a ship.

Estravé: m. ée: f. Vnshackled; freed from shackles.

Estraver. To vnshackle; to free, or deliuer from shackles.

Estrayer. m. ere: f. as Espave: com. Estrayeres: f. Escheats; the goods of strangers dead without French-borne issue; and of bastards, dead intestate, or without issue.

Estre: m. A substance, or subsistence; an essence, being; state; also, the stocke, stemme, or direct line of a Pettigree, kindred, or familie.  Les Estres d'une maison. The inward conueyances, priuate windings or turnings within, entries into, issues out of, a house.  Se maintenir tousiours en mesme estre. To hold at one stay, continue in one estate, keepe still his former state, be alwayes the man he was, or the same man.

Estre. To be, subsist; remaine, abide, stand, rest. Estre à cheval. To ride, or sit a horse, or on horse-*backe; also, to deale vpon aduantage; also, to stand on loftie, or high tearmes, as one that knowes he hath the aduantage. Estre apres quelqu'un. ''To ly at, or be earnest with, one to doe any thing. Estre dessus. To stand; Looke Dessus. Estre en eau. To sweat; or, as we say, to be all on a water. Estre en l'eau. To be in, or vpon, the water.