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Esclanche de mouton. A leg of Mutton (cut large with the whole bone at it.)

Esclandre: m. A slaunder; a defamation, detractation, vniust imputation; also, a slaughter; also, a mishap, danger; tumult, vprore; mischiefe. À grand pecheur esclandre: Prov. Great sinners euer come to shame.

Esclandreux. Scandalous, slaunderous, or slaunder-breeding.

Esclandrir. To slaunder, defame, dishonour, depraue, detract from.

Esclappe: f. Grossenesse, corpulencie, fatnesse.

Esclat: m. A Shiuer, splinter, or little peece of wood broken off with violence; also, a small, and thin Lath, or Shingle. Esclat de lumiere. A glimpse, or suddaine flash of light. Esclat de tonnerre. A clap, or crack, of thunder. Diamond de bon esclat. A diamond that shines very faire, or sparkles much in the eye; a dyamond of a good luster, or water. Par esclats. Peece-meale, in sheeuers, into a thousand peeces.

Esclatant: m. ante: f. Splitting, crashing, cracking; ringing; bright-shining, glistering, glittering, flashing, brandishing; hauing a fresh, or faire glosse. Oraison esclatante. An earnest, vehement, or pearcing, speech.

Esclate. A kind of disease among children.

Esclaté: m. ée: f. Burst, split, crashed, shiuered into splinters; also sparkled, glittered, glistered, flashed out.

Esclater. To shine, sparkle, glisten, glitter; to flash out; also; to haue a fresh or faire glosse. s'esclater. To split, burst, crash, breake, shiuer into splinters, or peeces.

Esclature. A splitting; shiuering in peeces, a bursting into shiuers, or splinters; also, a glistening, sparkling, glittering; flashing.

Esclau. as Esclave. A slaue.

Esclavage: m. Slauerie, bondmanship; villenage.

Esclave: m. A slaue, bondman, bondslaue, bought seruant.

Esclaver. To enthrall, make slauish, bring vnto slauerie or bondage.

Esclavine: f. as Esclamme; or a sea-gowne; or a course, high-collered, and short-sleeued gowne, reaching downe to the mid leg, and vsed most by sea-men, and Saylors.

Esclayer. To vnhurdle, vnwattle; vnbarre; to breake open, pull away, or make way through, hurdles &c.

Escleche. A dismembring; or seperation; also, a part, or peece dismembred, or seperated from.

Escleché: m. ée: f. Dismembred; rent, or torne from; in parcels, diuided, seperated from.

Escler. Seeke Esclair. Esclerci: m. ie: f. Cleered; explaned, manifested, illustrated; fined, clarified; growne thin, light, faire.

Esclercir. To cleere; illustrate, manifest, explane, display; also, to fine, clarifie, make cleere. s'Esclercir. To wax thin in substance; to grow few, or small in number; light, or faire in colour; to cleere vp.

Esclercissement: m. A cleering, manifestation, explanation, illustrating of matters; also, a fining, or clarifying.

Esclere, ou Esclerre. as Esclaire. The hearbe Selandine.

Esclerement. Cleerely, brightly; plainly, manifestly.

Esclesche: f. as Escleche. Esclichoir: m. A Squirt, or Siringe.

Esclische. as Escleche. ¶Wallon. Esclisché: m. ée: f. Dismembred, diuided, peece-mealed, parted.

Esclischement: m. A dismembring, parting, diuiding of an entire thing.

Esclisse: f. Any (small) Hurdle, or any Vtensill of watled Ozier, or Wicker, &c; hence; a Cheese-fat, or Chesfoord thereof; and, the Rundle, or Circlet put vnder a dish at Table; a wicker bottome for a dish; also, a twig, or sticke of Ozier, or Wicker; and hence; Esclisses. Splents, bound about a broken leg, &c; also, the sides of a Violl, or Fiddle.

Esclissé: m. ée: f. Squirted; spurted, spatled, or spouted from (or as from) a Squirt; also, watled; wouen of, or made vp with, Ozier or Wicker twigs, &c; also, splented; bound vp in, or kept straight by, splents. Fromage esclissé. Formed in the Cheese-fat; or, that hath still on it the print of the Chesfoord.

Esclisser. To squirt; to spurt, spatle, or spout from (or as from) a Squirt; also, to watle, or make vp with Ozier or Wicker twigs, &c; also, to splent; to bind vp in splents, or keepe straight by splenting.

Esclissoire. A Squirt.

Esclistre. as Fouldre. Esclop: m. A Patten, or woodden shooe. ¶Tholosain. Esclopé: m. ée: f. Maymed, limping, lame.

Escloppé. The same.

Esclopper. To maime, to lame.

Esclorre. To hatch; also, to disclose, produce, bring forth. Esclorre la bouche. To open the mouth.

Esclos: m. se: f. Hatched; disclosed; opened.

Esclot: m. as Esclop; also, a Reed, or Cane, to sucke with; also, a Rest in Musicke; also, a Galley-*slaue.

Esclotouëre. A Clap Net.

Esclou: m. The print of a horses foot.

Escloy: m. Pisse, lant, vrine, lee, stale. ¶Pic. Escluine. as Esclamme. Esclusant. Stopping, as by a Sluice; or, as Excluant. Escluse: f. A Sluice, Floud-gate, or Water-gate; also, a Mill-damme; also, any Damme, Cesterne, or great Vessell, whereby the water that comes from a spring is receiued, and kept for vse; also, a passage betweene hils, or at the foot of a hill, which by a high, and betowred gate seperates the marches, or territories of one countrey from another.

Escodilles: f. The bulbes, or bulbed roots, of Daffodils, or Daffadowndillies.

Escoffier: m. A Shoomaker.

Escoffraye: f. A Shoomakers Stall, or the boord whereon he works.

Escoffret: m. as Escoffraye; or, a little one.

Escofion: m. A Coyfe, or Cawle.

Escofraye. as Escoffraye. Escogriffe: m. A Luske, a great Slouch, Clusterfist, foule Clunch. ¶Orleannois. Escoinson: m. A Scunche; the backe part of the iaumbe of a window.

Escolage: m. Schoole-hire; a stipend, or money, giuen for the teaching, or tutoring of a Scholler.

Escolastre: m. The Rector, chiefe Maister, Superintendent, or Ouerseer, of a Schoole; also, an vnlearned, or meane Scholler; one that is but halfe a Scholler.