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Esvasé. as Evasé. Esvasement: m. Spaciousnesse, widenesse; an open and broad concauitie.

Esvaser. as Esbaser; and as Evaser. Esvasure: f. An opening wide; a gaping; widening, or setting wide open; also, a hollowing, or inward sloaping.

Esveillé: m. ée: f. Awaked, rowsed, raised out of sleep; also, quicke, vigilant, watchfull, heedie, warie, carefull, industrious, diligent, wittie, readie to take hold of any aduantage Esveillé & non esveillé. Betweene sleeping and waking. Plus esveillé qu'vn chat qu'on fouëtte. More nimble, or obseruant then a cat with a whip at her breech.

Esveiller. To waken, awake, rowse, raise from sleepe; also, to excite, or stirre vp. Esveiller le chat qui dort. To awake the sleeping Lyon (say we;) Looke Chat. Esveilleur: m. An awaker, or waker; a rowser, a raiser from sleepe.

Esvent: m. The vent of a wine vessell. Vin qui sent l'esvent. Wine that hath taken wind, or vnto which too much vent hath beene giuen.

Esventail: m. as Esventoir. Esventé. vn esventé. A giddie, humorous, fantasticall, harebraind, rash, vndiscreet, light-headed fellow; one whose words are but wind; hence also, a boaster, braggard, swaggerer.

Esventé: m. ée: f. Winded, tainted, mard with wind, that hath taken wind; windie; stale, out of season, past the best; also, discouered, vented, found out; published, spred abroad; also, fanned, winnowed; aired, as with a fanne; cooled; or breathed with wind.

Esventelles. The sailes of a wind-mill.

Esventement: m. A fanning, or winnowing; a giuing aire, or wind vnto; also, a venting; or taking, or giuing, of wind; also, a publishing, or discouering.

Esventer. To fanne, or winnow; also, to puffe, blow, breath giue, or yeeld wind; also, to descrie, discouer, vent, or find out; also, to divulge, publish, or spread abroad. s'Esventer. To take vent, or wind.

Esventeur: m. A fanner, or winnower of corne; also, a venter, or vent-giuer.

Esventilé: m. ée: f. Fanned, winnowed; blowne, breathed on; whereunto wind is giuen.

Esventiler. To fanne, winnow, blow, breath on; giue wind vnto.

Esventoir: m. A fanne; flip-flap, flie-flap, or flabell, to gather wind, giue aire, or driue away flies.

Esventoire: f. as Esventoir. Esventoise: f. A vent in caske, &c.

Esveré: m. ée: f. Wormed, as a dog, &c.

Esverer. To worme a dog, &c.

Esveux: m. euse: f. Waterish, full, of water.

Esvier: m. A sinke, or channell to void water by.

Esvisagé: m. ée: f. Plucked by, or scratched on, the face.

Esvisager. To pull by, or scratch on, the face.

Esule: f. The hearbe Esula, Diuells-milke, Quacksalvers Turbith, Quacksaluers Spurge: (Apothecaries giue euerie kind of Tithymal, or Spurge, the name of Esula: ¶Mathiolus.) Esule ronde. Pettie Spurge.

Esvolé: m. ée: f. Shamelesse, impudent, brasen-faced, ouer-bold; also, light, inconstant, hare-braind, shittle-headed, shallow, that can keepe no counsell.
  Faulcon esvolé. A hawke that hath flowne away from

some one or other; a taken-vp hawke.

Esvolement. Rashly, ouer-boldly; shamelesly, impudently; lightly, inconstantly; on a sleight occasion.

Esurial: m. ale: f. Fasting, meat-forbearing.

Et. And, likewise, also, aswell, both. Et puis. Well then; what though; what of that; suppose, or, put the case it be so; Looke Puis. Eternel: m. elle: f. Eternall, euerlasting, immortall, continuall, perpetuall, most durable, ay-during, without end.

Eternellement. Eternally, immortally, euerlastingly, continually, perpetually, for euer, euermore, alwayes.

Eterni: m. ie: f. Throwne or strucke downe, layed flat along.

Eternité: f. Eternitie, immortalitie, euerlastingnesse, endlesse continuance.

Eternizé: m. ée: f. Eternized, immortalized, perpetuated.

Eternizer. To eternize, perpetuate, immortalize.

Etesies. Th' Easterlie winds which commonly blow in the Dog-dayes.

Etesté: m. ée: f. Headlesse; headed; topped, lopped.

Etestement: m. A heading; a topping, or lopping of trees.

Etester. To make headlesse; to top, lop, or cut off all the branches of a tree.

Etheré: m. ée: f. Airie, of aire.

Ethologie: f. A morall; an Enterlude of a morall subiect, or wherein mens manners are acted, and expressed.

Etique: com. In a consumption, meager, languishing.

Etiquet. A little note, breuiate, bill, or ticket; especially such a one, as is stucke vp on the gate of a Court, signifying the seisure &c of an inheritance by order of iustice.

Etiqueté. Noted, titled, intitled; also, lodged by billet.

Etiqueter. To note, marke, or title a booke, bag, or bill, on the outside, the better to remember, or conceiue on a suddaine, the subiect of it; also, to lodge by ticket, or billet, as Harbingers doe. Etiqueter les tesmoings. To deliuer vnto a Judge, Examiner, or Commissioner a breuiate, containing the witnesses names, and the points whereon they are to be examined.

Etiquetier: m. A Harbinger.

Etiquette: f. A ticket fastened within the mouth of a Lawyers booke-bag, and containing the titles of the bookes, and the names of them to whom they belong; any incription, superscription, title, note, or marke set on th' outside of a thing, thereby to find it out the sooner; also, a token, billet, or ticket, deliuered for the benefit, or aduantage of him that receiues it. Besongner à l'etiquette. To worke close, hard, continually; or, to worke taske-worke.

Etirement. Looke Estirement. Etiveler. To whistle, or whoope, as a hunter.

Etmoïde. Os Et. The bone whereof the top of the nose is made.

Etrichoir: m. That which, in winding of thread, is (to saue the fingers) wrapped, or put about it: ¶Parisien. Ettiquet; &, Ettiqueter. as Etiquet; &, Etiqueter. Ettaie; &, Ettaier. Seeke Estaye; &, Ettayer. Etymologie: f. Th' Etimologie; or true exposition of words.

Etymologizer. To etimologize; to interpret, or expound words truely.

Evacuatif: m. iue: f. Euacuatiue; purgatiue.