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- English Word Escarpment Definition A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp.
- English Word Eschalot Definition See Shallot.
- English Word Eschar Definition A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics.
- English Word Eschar Definition In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams.
- English Word Eschara Definition A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched.
- English Word Escharine Definition Like, or pertaining to, the genus Eschara, or family Escharidae.
- English Word Escharotic Definition Serving or tending to form an eschar; producing a scar; caustic.
- English Word Escharotic Definition A substance which produces an eschar; a caustic, esp., a mild caustic.
- English Word Eschatological Definition Pertaining to the last or final things.
- English Word Eschatology Definition The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.
- English Word Eschaunge Definition Exchange.
- English Word Escheat Definition The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder.
- English Word Escheat Definition The reverting of real property to the State, as original and ultimate proprietor, by reason of a failure of persons legally entitled to hold the same.
- English Word Escheat Definition A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession.
- English Word Escheat Definition Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat.
- English Word Escheat Definition That which falls to one; a reversion or return
- English Word Escheat Definition To revert, or become forfeited, to the lord, the crown, or the State, as lands by the failure of persons entitled to hold the same, or by forfeiture.
- English Word Escheat Definition To forfeit.
- English Word Escheatable Definition Liable to escheat.
- English Word Escheatage Definition The right of succeeding to an escheat.
- English Word Escheating Definition of Escheat
- English Word Escheator Definition An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them.
- English Word Eschevin Definition The alderman or chief officer of an ancient guild.
- English Word Eschew Definition To shun; to avoid, as something wrong, or from a feeling of distaste; to keep one's self clear of.
- English Word Eschew Definition To escape from; to avoid.
- English Word Eschewer Definition One who eschews.
- English Word Eschewment Definition The act of eschewing.
- English Word Eschscholtzia Definition A genus of papaveraceous plants, found in California and upon the west coast of North America, some species of which produce beautiful yellow, orange, rose-colored, or white flowers; the California poppy.
- English Word Eschynite Definition A rare mineral, containing chiefly niobium, titanium, thorium, and cerium. It was so called by Berzelius on account of the inability of chemical science, at the time of its discovery, to separate some of its constituents.
- English Word Escocheon Definition Escutcheon.