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Esterni: m. ie: f. Strowed, spred, displayed, throwne abroad, layed along.

Esternir. To strow, spread, throw, lay abroad, or along; to display.

Esternissement: m. A strowing, spreading, displaying; laying abroad or along.

Esternuement: m. A neezing, or sneezing.

Esternuer. To neeze, or sneeze. Herbe à esternuer. Sneesingwort, or Sneesewort of Austria, wild Pellitorie of Spaine.

Estesté. Looke Etesté. Estester. Looke Etester. Esteuf: m. A Tennisball. Courir apres son esteuf. Foolishly to pursue a thing, which he had, and might haue held, in his hands; also, (as foolishly) to rely on, strayne himselfe for, or follow after, incertainties. Se donner l'esteuf l'un à l'autre. To assist, or serue one anothers turne. Il se mit encores apres son esteuf. He betooke himselfe vnto his first enterprise; or, to that he had most in his head; or (as before) he obstinately followed that againe, which himselfe let goe. Il releva cet esteuf. He apprehended this occasion, he seised on, or made vse of, this aduantage. Se renvoyer l'esteuf l'un à l'autre; Looke Renvoyer. Esteule: f. Straw, or stuble growing. Nouvelles esteules. New stuble, or stuble ground; so tearmed for the three next dayes after the sheaues are bound vp.

Estienne. Stephen (a mans proper name.) Invention Sainct Estienne. An holyday kept by the Church of Rome, the third of August. Miches de S. Estienne. Stones.

Estier: m. Looke Septier. Estimable: com. Esteemeable, valuable, priseable.

Estimateur: m. An estimator, valuer, prizer, esteemer of things.

Estimation: f. An estimation, prizing, valuing; a consideration had, or iudgement giuen, of.

Estime: f. An estimate, estimation, price, value, esteeme, valuation; an account, regard, reckoning made of; the reputation, or credit giuen to; the opinion had of.

Estimé: m. ée: f. Esteemed; thought, supposed; held, reputed; prised, valued; respected, regarded; held deere, set much by, made account of; iudged; weighed, considered.

Estimer. To esteeme; thinke, deeme, trowe, suppose, repute, hold; weigh, consider; iudge; prise, value; regard, respect, hold deere, set by, make much account of.

Estincelle: f. A sparke, or sparkle of fire; a twinckle; a flash.

Estincellé: m. ée: f. Sparkled, sparked, twinkled; also, powdered, or set with sparkles.

Estincellement: m. A sparkling, a twinkling.

Estinceller. To sparke, to sparkle, as fire; to twinkle, as a starre, or Dyamond; to sprinkle as wine; to powder, or set thicke with sparkles.

Estincellette: f. A little sparkle, a small twinkling.

Estiomene. S. Anthonies fire (a painefull swelling full of heat, and rednesse.)

Estiomené: m. ée: f. Inflamed, or infected with S. Anthonies fire.

Estiomener. To cut off the member so inflamed, or infected.

Estire: m. The yron toole wherewith a Currier draynes the skins he receiues from the Tanpit; some call it, a Sleeker.

Estiré: m. ée: f. Strained, stretched, wrested, retched; set on the tenter hookes.

Estirement: m. A stretching, or retching; a straining, or setting on the tenter hookes.

Estirer. To retch, or straine aboue compasse; to wrest, or stretch, to set on the tenter hookes.

Estival: m. ale: f. Of Summer, belonging vnto Summer.

Estivalet: m. A Buskin, or Summer boot.

Estive: f. The loading, or lading of a ship; also, the Hold wherein most of that lading is contained.

Estivé: m. ée: f. Loaden, or laden (as a ship.)

Estiveler. as Etiveler. Estiver. To Summer, to passe the Summer in; to rest in Summer.

Estivet: m. A little Summer, halfe a Summer, another Summer. L'estivet de S. Martin. The later end of Autumne.

Estoc: m. The stocke, trunke, or bodie of a tree; also, the principall stocke or stemme, direct and chiefe line, of a Familie, Kinred, or Pettigree; also, the race, kind, or sort of other things; also, a Rapier, or tucke; also, a thrust; also, a Vice. Estoc d'armes. A kind of strong, sharpe, and short horsemans sword, broad at the handle (where it hath but one barre for defence) and narrowing to the point-*wards. Coup d'estoc. A thrust, foine, stockado, stab; also, a prick-cast. D'estoc. Thrusting, foining; stabbing. D'estoc & de taille. Both with the point and the edge; also, both wayes, in both kinds; or, by all kind of means, molestations, mischiefes. Se tenir à l'estoc sans s'amuser aux branches. To adhere vnto the principall, without respect of dependants.

Estocage: m. A linage, or the chiefe stemme of a linage. ¶Wallon. Estoccade: f. A stoccado; stab, foine, thrust.

Estoccader. To giue the stoccado; to stab, foine at, pricke deepe into, thrust through.

Estoccage: m. iiij d vpon the sale of an inheritance, due (in some places) vnto the Landlord, and to be payed him, in lieu of a Reliefe, the same day it is sold.

Estocquer. as Estoccader; or, as Estoquer. Estoeuf. as Esteuf. Estoeuvier: m. ere: f. Of, or belonging to, a Tennis ball.

Estoffe: f. Stuffe; matter, substance; ware, chaffer; also, the qualitie, ranke; abilitie, or worth of a man. Chevaliers de bonne estoffe. Knights well armed, and well managing their Armes.

Estoffé: m. ée: f. Stuffed; made with stuffe; stored, or furnished with necessaries; also, carued, grauen, intayled.

Estoffer. To stuffe; to make with stuffe; to furnish, or store with all necessaries; also, to carue, graue, intayle.

Estofferie: f. The art of ingrauing.

Estoffeur: m. A cutter, grauer, caruer, intailer.

Estoillé: m. The Lizard Stellio, whose necke is full of starre-like spots.

Estoille: f. A starre; a planet; also, the hearb Sharewort, Starre-wort, Cudwort.
  Estoille de mer. An excrement of the sea, called the Fiue-foot, or Starre-fish.
  Estoille polaire. The North starre. See Polaire.
  Estoille Poussiniere. The seuen starres; called by some, the Henne and her Chickens.
  Escus à l'estoille Poussiniere. Counters (for there are no such Crownes.)