Esplucheures: f. The pickings, or cullings; the pluckings, or teysings of.
Esplugebant. A kind of riuer-fowle.
Esplumé: m. ée: f. Plucked, vnplumed, without feathers; bereaued, or bared, of feathers.
Espluquer. as Esplucher. ¶Pic. Espluyé: m. ée: f. Sprinkled, spatled, or spattered vpon.
Espluyer. To sprinkle, spattle, spatter, or cast vpon.
Espoictriné, &c. Looke Espoitriné. Espoinçonner. as Espoindre. Espoinct: m. cte: f. Pricked, spurred; incited, prouoked, violently moued, vehemently stirred.
Espoincté: m. ée: f. Vnpointed, blunted; whose point is dulled, broken, or cut off.
Espoincter. To vnpoint, or blunt; to dull, breake, or cut off the point of.
Espoindre. To prick, spurre; prouoke, vrge, incite; stirre vehemently, moue extreamely.
Espointement: m. An vnpointing; a blunting; a breaking the point of. Espointement de questions. A pacifying of quarrels, a quieting of altercations; also, a resolution of questions.
Espointer. as Espoincter. Espoir: m. Hope, trust, confidence, affiance.
Espois d'un cerf. The top of a red Deeres head; of a fallow, the Spellers.
Espois. as Espez; thicke.
Espoissir. To thicken; Seeke Espessir. Espoitriné: m. ée: f. Open breasted; whose bosome lyes open to view.
Espoitronnement: m. A discouering of the bosome, a going open breasted.
Esponce d'heritage: f. A quitting, abandoning, forgoing, giuing ouer an estate in land.
Esponcé: m. ée: f. Quit, left, abandoned, forgone, giuen ouer.
Esponcer. To quit, leaue, abandon, forsake, forgoe, giue ouer.
Esponcion. as Esponce. Esponge: f. A Spunge. Esponges d'asperge. The clottered root of garden Sparagus. Esponge d'eau douce. A certaine hearbe, that flotes on riuers, and is called, Spunge of the riuer. Esponges femelles. Those which haue the fewest, and least holes. Esponge de riviere. Spunge of the riuer; an hearbe. Pierre d'esponge. Looke Pierre. Porter l'esponge; ou, passer l'esponge, sur. To deface, or blot out. Espongette: f. A little Spunge. Espongette du Rosier sauvage. A Brier-ball, or canker-Rose ball; the round, and spungie excrescence, which cleaues to the branch of a wild Rose, brier-Rose, or Hep tree.
Espongieux: m. euse: f. Spungie; full of Spunges; light, or full of holes, like a Spunge.
Esporle: f. A vassals acknowledgement of the seruices, and duties which he owes vnto his Lord.
Esporler. A vassall to acknowledge the duties and seruices he owes, to his Lord.
Esporte: f. A handbasket.
Espoudré: m. ée: f. Dusted; cleered from, cleansed of, dust.
Espoudrer. To dust; to beat, or wipe the dust from; to cleanse, or cleere from dust.
Espoventable: com. Dreadfull, frightfull, fearefull; horrible, gastfull, horride; monstrous, terrible; able to scare, or amaze any man.
Espoventablement. Dreadfully, frightfully, fearefully; terribly, horribly, ghastfully, with great amazement.
Espoventail: m. A Bug-beare, or Scar-crow; a man of clouts to feare birds with.
Espoventaire. The same.
Espoventant. Frighting, flighting, skaring, terrifying, amazing with dread, filling with horror.
Espovente: f. Dread, fright, great feare; terror, horror, ghastlinesse; astonishment, consternation, amazement. Ils ont prins l'espovente. They are mightily skared; they haue taken a terrible allarum; they are afraid of euerie feather that wags, or shadow that appeares; or, they scud away as fast, and as fearefully, as if fire were at their tayles.
Espoventé: m. ée: f. Frighted, frayed, monstrously afrayed, skared, terrified; appalled by dread, amazed by terror, filled with horror.
Espoventement: m. as Espovente; or, a frighting, fraying, skaring, terrifying.
Espoventer. To fright, flight, fray, terrifie, feare exceedingly; amaze, appall, astonish by feare; fill with horror or terror, or with horrible or terrible apprehensions.
Espouillé: m. ée: f. Lowsed, rid of lice.
Espouiller. To lowse, kill lice, rid of lice.
Espouilleresse: f. A woman that picketh, or killeth, lice.
Espousailles: f. An Espousalls, or Bridall; a wedding, or mariage.
Espouse: f. A Spowse; a Wife. Espouse du soleil. The Marygould; so called by some.
Espousé: m. ée: f. Espoused, wedded, married.
Espousée: f. A Spouse, an Espoused.
Espouser. To espouse, wed, marrie; also, to defend, imbrace, vndertake, intertaine as his owne, take wholly vpon him; whence; Espouser la querelle d'aucun. Espouser la gruë. See Gruë. Espouser vne rouë. To be broken vpon a wheele.
Espousse. as Pousse; a disease in a horse.
Espousseté: m. ée: f. Brushed; dusted; wiped downe.
Espousseter. To brush; dust, wipe the dust off.
Espoussette: f. A brush; also, a duster, or dusting cloth for a horse; and hence; Donner des espoussettes, (que ie ne die des estrivieres) à. Lightly to touch, (if not to tax.)
Espouventable, &c. Looke Espoventable, &c. Espoux: m. A Spouse, Bridegroome, new married man; one that is married, wedded, espoused.
Espoys. The vttermost, or vppermost branches of a Deeres head; Looke Espois. Espraintes. The dung of an Otter, or other such vermine.
Espreinctes. as Espraintes. Espreindre. To presse, wring, straine, squeese out, thrust together.
Espreint: m. te: f. Pressed, wrung, strained, squeesed out, thrust hard together.
Espreinte: f. A pressing, straining, wringing, thrusting together; a squeesing out; also, a great desire to goe to the stoole.
Espreintes. as Espraintes.