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Escuyer: m. An Esquire, or Squire; also, he that beares an Errant knights launce & shield; also, an Vsher, or Sewer; also, the false bud of a Vine; also, a yong male deere which, ordinarily, keeps an old one company; also, a kind of yellow, and hard-rinded Peare. Escuyer de Cuisine. The clarke of a kitchin. Escuyer d'Escuyrie. A querrie, in a Princes Stable; the gentleman of a lords horse. Escuyer trenchant. A caruer, or squire of the mouth; also a Taster; (for he that carues to a Prince, euer tasts of what he carues, before his master touch it.) Le grand Escuyer de France. The master of the horse; who besides his authoritie ouer all th' Officers of the kings stables, hath also (which here belongs to the Earle marshall) Iurisdiction ouer heralds, and pursiuants; In old time the great master, or steward of the Kings house, was also called thus. Peu peut bailler à son Escuyer qui son cousteau lesche: Prov. He that hath but little for himselfe hath not much for his man. Pour l'amour du Chevalier baise la Dame l'escuyer: Pro. (Wherein his worship is, often, but little beholden to her Ladieship.)

Escuyere: f. A woman esquire; a Gentlewoman that attends on a knight as his Esquire.

Escuyrie: f. The stable of a Prince, or nobleman; also, a Querry-ship; or the dueties, or offices belonging there-*to; also (in old authors) a Squires place; or, the dignitie, title, or estate of an Esquire.

Esdenter. as Edenter. Esfarouché: m. ée: f. Frighted, scared, frightened, feared away; also, tamed, reclaimed, made gentle, inward, or tractable.

Esfaroucher. To fright, scare, frighten, affray, feare away; also, to tame, winne, reclaime, make gentle, tractable, inward.

Esfilé. as Effilé. Esflanqué: m. ée: f. Swayed in the backe; also, leane, meager, gaunt, thinne-flanked, or shrunke in the flanke, that hath no bellie at all. Esflanqué en cheval de postillon. As lanke as a post-horse.

Esflanquer. To sway in the backe; or, to make leane, meager, gaunt, thinne-flanked, small-bellied.

Esflorer. To depriue of flower, or of flowers; Looke Effleurer. Esfoiré: m. ée: f. Bedunged, bemired, berayed.

Esfrontément. as Effrontément; Impudently.

Esgail: m. A fine morning-frost, that shines like glasse.

Esgal. as Egual; Equall, euen, leuell. Les Ondes sont à l'esgal. Plaine, smooth, calme.

Esgaler. as Egualer. Esgallé: m. ée: f. Equalled, matched, euened, leuelled.

Esgallement. Equally, euenly, alike, matchably.

Esgaller. To equall, match; leuell, euen.

Esgard: m. Respect, heed, regard, obseruation; aduisement, consideration; reckoning, account; also, a report made, or account giuen, of. Esgards. sont gens expers, & cognoisants à faire visitations, & rapports: ¶Ragueau. Esgaré. il s'est esgaré de, &c. He is wandered or straied, he swarues or digresses, from; he is out of the way. Esgaré de bouche. (Of a horse) not subiect to the bit, vnstayed, in all things disobedient. Mais il ne fut** pas pourtant** esgaré. Yet was he not abashed, or put downe; he had not yet lost himselfe; he knew, for all that, well ynough where he was.

Esgarement: m. A straying, wandering; swaruing, di-*

?8 *gressing from; also, a scattering, dispersing, mislaying. Esgarement en la veuë. A staring, gastlinesse, amazednesse of looke; or, an vncertaine fashion of gazing vp and downe.

Esgarer. To scatter, disperse, mislay. s'Esgarer. To erre, wander, stray, roue, to flie out, swarue, or digresse from, to runne out of the high way.

Esgargaté de crier. Whose throat is almost burst, or wel-nigh riuen, with crying.

Esgaronné: m. ée: f. Trodden downe, as a shooe at the heele.

Esgaronner vn soulier. To tread a shooe downe at the heele.

Esgarouillé. yeux esgarouillez. Wide-staring, or gloring, eyes.

s'Esgaudir. To reioyce; to be iocond, merrie, glad; to be full of glee.

s'Esgayer. To sport, make merrie, be gamesome; to skip, leape, or play, as duckes, or fish, in the water.

Esgeré: m. ée: f. Ploughed, or broken vp, as land for fallowes.

Esgerer. To plough, or breake vp land for fallowes.

Esglantier: m. The Eglantine, sweet Brier, Hep-tree, wild Rose-tree. Esglantier odorant. The sweet Brier.

Esglise: f. as Eglise; A Church.

Esgommé: m. ée: f. Vngummed, whose gumme is taken away.

Esgommer. To vngumme; to take away the gumme from.

Esgorgé: m. ée: f. Whose throat is cut.

Esgorgement. The cutting of a throat; also, a whirle-*poole, or swallowing abisme, or gulfe.

Esgorger. To cut the throat of.

Esgorgeté: m. ée: f. Whose throat is cut; also, bare-neckt; bare, or open breasted; or wearing a verie low, or no, coller to his shirt, doublet, ierkin, &c.

Esgorgeter. as Esgorger; Also, to goe bare-neckt, open-brested; or to fould downe the coller of a garment, thereby to bare, or discouer the necke or bosome.

Esgosillé: m. ée: f. Whose throat is cut.

Esgosillement: m. A throat-cutting.

Esgosiller. To cut the throat of.

Esgosse: f. A cod, huske, hulling.

Esgoüé: m. ée: f. Cloyed, saded, ouer full, or full vnto sacietie.

Esgouër. To be cloyed, saded, ouer full; to eat vnto sacietie.

Esgousser. To vnhuske; to pill, or shale husked fruits.

Esgoust: m. as Esgout. Esgout: m. A drop, or dropping, as of water from a house eaues; also, a little sinke, channell, or gutter to void filth by. Pluye de Fevrier vaut esgout de fumier: Pro. Look Fumier. Esgouté: m. ée: f. Drained, dried, soaked of moisture, by little and little.

Esgoutement: m. A draining by dropping.

Esgouter. To draine, or make drie by little and little; to leaue neuer a drop in. Goutte à goutte la mer s'esgoute: Prov. The sea by a continuall draining will grow drie.

Esgouteur: m. A drainer, soaker, drier vp by drops.

Esgoutille: f. A little hole, or gullet, through which water can doe little more then drop.

Esgoutoir: m. A draine, channell, sinke, or low gutter in a dairie, kitchen, &c.

Esgrailler. To shale, or straddle with the feet, or legs. </poem>