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  Escarbouiller la cervelle. To braine.

Escardé: m. ée: f. Carded.

Escarder. To card, as wooll.

Escardes. Cardes for wooll, &c.

Escardeur: m. A carder.

Escardeure: f. A carding.

Escare: m. A certein fish which (against the custome of all others) chewes his meate.

Escare: f. A skarre, or scab, or as Eschare. Escargot. A snayle. Escargot de mer. A whelke; also, a winckle, or periwinkle; (the first, the greatest; th' others, lesse kinds, thereof.)

Escarlate: f. Scarlet; also, the Scarlet apple.

Escarlatin: m. ine: f. Of skarlet, or of a skarlet hue. Rose escarlatine. A Damaske rose.

Escarlatte. as Escarlate. Escarmouchant. Bickering, skirmishing.

Escarmouche: f. A skirmish, bickering, brablement; a small fight, or fray.

Escarmouché. Bickered, skirmished; brabled. Il s'est bien escarmouché. He hath talked throughly; he hath wrangled, or bestirred himselfe exceedingly in the matter.

Escarmoucher. To skirmish, bicker, brable; to bestirre himselfe like a horse that driues away flyes with his tayle.

Escarmoucheur: m. A bickerer, skirmisher; brabler.

Escarotique. Skarre-breeding; skab-bringing.

Escarouflé: m. ée: f. Scratched, torne, rent.

Escaroufler. To scratch; to teare, to rend.

Escarpe: f. A scarfe, or little wall without the mayne rampire of a fort. Escarpé: m. ée: f. Vaulted; also, cut steepe downe; and hence; Fossé escarpé en plomb. A dike made plum downe.

Escarper. To cut smooth, and steepe.

Escarpins: m. Pumpes; light, or single-soled shooes; also, a kind of torture.

Escarpoulette: f. A kind of swing (wherein a man sits as he swings.)

Escarque. as Escalque: ¶Rab. Escarquiller. as Esquarquiller; to set wide open. Escarrabillade: com. as Escarbillat. Escarre: f. A Skarre, or hard scab vpon a wound; Looke Eschare. Escarure: f. A womans square.

Escart: m. A discarding; a departing, or putting aside, and out of the way; also, a place of solitarie retirall. À l'escart. Apart, aside, out of the way; asunder, one from another.

Escarté: m ée: f. Scattreed, dispersed; disparcled; discarded; throwne abroad.

Escartelé. Quartered; cut into quarters. Femme bien escartelée. A woman big set, of thicke limmes, and large quarters.

Escarteler. To quarter; to slaughter, butcher, cut in quarters.

Escartellé. as, Escartelé, Quartered.

Escarter. To scatter, dissipate, disparcle; also, to discard; to set, or lay apart; also, to sheed, squatter, throw about, or abroad. s'Escarter. To goe aside, get out of companie, slip out of the way.

Escas. The tenth penie of the value of moueables, wherein a forreiner succeeds a freeman, due vnto the townes of Seclin, & Bassée sous Lille, by their particular customes and charters.

Escassable. Meubles escassables. Moueables subiect vnto Escas. Escavessade: f. A shake, iert, or blow, with the cord of a Cauesson.

Escéer. To cut, or slyve; also, to pill.

Escelles: f. The arme-holes.

Escerné: m. ée: f. Vnkernelled, whose kernell is taken or cut out; also, opened, scraped, or scarified round about.

Escerner. To vnkernell; to take, or cut a thing cleane out of the round place wherein it was; also, to open, scrape, or scarifie a thing round about, or on euerie part or side of it.

Escervelé: m. ée: f. Braine-sicke, haire-braind, wild-braind, cocke-braind; headie, giddie, humorous; also, brained; whose braines are knocked, or dasht out; also, brainelesse, or depriued of braines.

Escerveler. To braine, to knocke, or dash out the braines of; also, to take the braines out of.

Escervellement: m. A braining.

Eschabouillé: m. ée: f. Scorched, ouerheated.

Eschafaudage: m. A scaffolding; a building or setting vp of, a presenting or shewing out on, scaffolds; also, a scaffold, or scaffold-like Stage, &c.

Eschafaudé: m. ée: f. Made into a scaffold; also, presented on a scaffold; or, caried from scaffold to scaffold, for a shew, or to his greater disgrace; also, set on the Pillorie.

Eschafauder. To build scaffolds; to present on a scaffold; to set on the pillorie; also, to deuise, inuent, plot, or practise villanie.

Eschafaudis: m. A scaffold.

Eschafaulder. as Eschafauder. Eschafaut: m. A Scaffold, or high Stage; also, a Pillorie.

Eschaffaudage: m. as Eschafaudage. Eschalas: m. A Pole, prop, stake, or stay, whereby a Vine, or any other weake-branched, vp-creeping, or high-growing Plant is held, and helped, vp. L'eschalas fait tomber la Vigne: Pro. Looke Vigne. Eschalassé: m. ée: f. Propped, sustained, vnderset with a pole, or stake.

Eschalasseau: m. A short, or small pole, prop, or stake.

Eschalassement: m. The propping, sustaining, or vnder-*setting of Vines, &c.

Eschalasser. To prop, sustaine, vnderset, or stay vp a Vine, Hop-plant, &c.

Eschalassier: m. ere: f. Of or belonging to, furnishing or bearing store of, poles, props, &c, for Vines, &c.

Eschalier: m. A winding staire; whence; Aussi tost prest qu'un chien auroit sauté vn eschalier. Readie after a while; or as soone readie as one, that does all things with deliberation, can be; (for whether a dog leape vp or downe such a staire, he commonly takes him leisure; Looke Sauté.)

Eschallat: m. as Eschalas. Eschalle: f. A little ringing, or tinging Bell.

Eschallier. as Eschalier. Eschallon: m. A kind of great ladder for a high loft, &c.

Eschalon. as Eschellon.

Eschalote. as Eschalotte.

Eschalotte: f. A Ciue, or Chiue; (In which sence, the Plurall, des eschalottes, is most vsed) also, a bruised stalke of Hempe.
  Se mettre en rang d'oignon, & ne valoir vn'eschalotte. To vsurpe a place, or imployment, whereof he is no way worthie.