Escacher. To squash; beat, batter, or crush, flat; to thrust, presse, knocke, squeeze, hard or close together.
Escacheur: m. A squasher; a beater, or crusher of things flat; a thruster, presser, or squeezer of things, hard or close together.
Escachure: f. A squashing; beating, or crushing, flat; a thrusting, pressing, or squeezing, hard or close together; also, a squash, crush, knocke, or squeeze, (whereby a thing is flatted, or beaten close together.)
Escadre: f. as Esquadre. A squadron; or square batallion. Escadres isnelles. Swift, and light companies, as of birds, &c.
Escadron: m. as Esquadron; a squadron of Souldiors.
Escaffette: f. A kind of great, and long muskle-shell (resembling a little Skiffe, or Trey) wherewith the women of Picardie skumme their milke.
Escaffignon: m. A Socke; also, a Pumpe; or, a close, and single-soled shoe of thin leather.
Escaigne de fil, ou de soye: f. A skaine of thread, &c.
Escaille: f. The skale of a fish, &c; any skale, broken shell, or shale; also, as Coucon; also, the crust, or vpper laying, of a Pauement. Escailles. (also) peeces of wood wherewith ioynts, or crannies left betweene stones, in building, are filled vp; also, the little skalie plats whereby an Armour is made plyant vnto the bodie. Escaille d'acier, de bronze, d'erain, de fer, &c; the Offalls of Steele, &c; the skales that fly from them whē they are hammered; (very medicinable; especially those, that fall from the vnwrought brasse, or copper; whereof nayles are forged.) Alun d'escaille. Seeke Alun. Angelot à la grosse escaille. An old Angell; and (metaphorically) one that hath in him more stuffe and worth, then forme or fashion. Bois d'escaille. The heart of Wood; (called so by Joyners.) Pourpoint d'escaille. A plated Corselet made scale-fashion. Tel cuide avoir des oeufs au feu qui n'y a que les escailles: Pro. Some weene they haue egges, that haue but shels, i' the fire.
Escaillé: m. ée: f. Skaled, skalie, hauing skales, or shales. Mur escaillé. A wall full of cracks, or chinks.
Escaillement: m. A skaling; pilling, shaling of.
Escailler. To skale, or pull the skales of; also, to beat, bethwacke, belabor the skin-coat of. Escailler sa ieunesse. To spend, passe; consume, or wast, his youth in dissolute, riotous, or licentious courses. Escailler des noix. To pill, or shale, Walnuts.
Escailleur: m. A skaler; piller, shaler of.
Escailleure: f. A skaling, &c, as Escaillement. Escailleures de pierres. Shards, or spalls; small peeces broken, or bewed, from stones.
Escailleux: m. euse: f. Skalie; full of skales, or shales.
Escaillon: m. A horses tush, or tuske. Les Escaillons du palais. (Signifie also) the skales, or skale-like diuisions, in the roofe, or palate of the mouth of a horse.
Escalade: f. A scalado; a skaling; the taking, or surprisall, of a place, by skaling.
Escaladé: m. ée: f. Skaled; taken, surprised, or entred into, by scalado.
Escalarder des noix. To shale Nuts. ¶Norm. Escalbotté: m. ée: f. Pilled, vnhusked.
Escalbotter. To pill; as Pease doe in boyling; to vnhuske, or loossen the huske of.
Escalé: m. ée: f. as Escaillé. Escalier: m. A winding stayre.
Escalle. Looke Scalle. Escallé: m. ée: f. Skaled; taken, surprised, or entred into (as a Towne) by scalado; also, gone into diuers parts, and ports; also, as Escaillé. Escaller. To skale; to take, surprise, or enter into, by scalado; also, to goe into diuers parts, and Ports; also, as Escailler. Escallier: m. as Escalier. Escalonnier: m. ere: f. (Dents escalonnieres. A horses tuskes, or tushes.) Escalque: m. An Vsher, or Sewer.
Escalventré: m. ée: f. Whose guts are squashed out, or bellie burst, by treading on it.
Escalventrer. To tread out the guts; to burst the bellie with trampling on it.
Escamme. as Escamne. Escamne: m. A Bench, Forme, or Seat; also, a step to get vp vnto a higher thing by. ¶Pic. Escamoté: m. ée: f. Disguised, changed, sophisticated.
Escamoter. To change, disguise, alter, sophisticate, foist in ill wares.
Escampe: f. A scaping, flitting, shifting, flying away; a speedie dislodging, quicke retyring.
Escampé. Scaped, flit, fled, auoided, recoyled, dislodged, runne away.
s'Escamper. To scape, flit, fly, auoid, recoile, retire; to runne away, or dislodge quickly out of a place.
Escandal: m. A Mariners sounding Plummet.
Escandillé: m. ée: f. Scantled; made according to the patterne or scantling of.
Escanné: m. ée: f. Stifled, throtled, strangled.
Escantuole: f. The Pumpe of a ship; or, as Escandal. ¶Rab. Escapade: f. An escape, or escaping; and (more particularly) a licentious, rebellious, or disordered motion, in a horse; and (sometimes) the disordered, or licentious flying out of a man.
Escaper. as Eschapper. Escapolin: m. A remnant, or parcell, of a peece of stuffe.
Escappe. A small square-edged circle, or fillet in a piller, &c; also, the bodie of a piller.
Escarade: f. The opening of the nether part of the branch of a horses Bitt.
Escaras. as Eschalas. ¶Pic. Escarbelotte: f. A small Beetle.
Escarbillat: m. ate: f. Quicke, lustie, liuelie, frolicke, spiritfull, stirring, that will stand on no ground; also, fantasticall, humorous, giddie, haire-braind.
Escarbot: m. The blacke Flie called, a Beetle. Escarbot cornu. as Cerf volant. Escarboté: m. ée: f. Stirred vp, as the fire.
Escarboter le feu. To stirre vp the fire.
Escarbotte: f. as Escarbot. Escarboucle: m. The precious stone tearmed, a Carbuncle.
Escarboucle: f. The pestilent botch, or sore, tearmed a Carbuncle.
Escarbouillé: m. ée: f. Crushed, squeezed, battered, burst in peeces.
Escarbouiller. To crush, squeeze, batter, burst in peeces.
