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- English Word Escopet Definition Alt. of Escopette
- English Word Escopette Definition A kind of firearm; a carbine.
- English Word Escorial Definition See Escurial.
- English Word Escort Definition A body of armed men to attend a person of distinction for the sake of affording safety when on a journey; one who conducts some one as an attendant; a guard, as of prisoners on a march; also, a body of persons, attending as a mark of respect or honor; -- applied to movements on land, as convoy is to movements at sea.
- English Word Escort Definition Protection, care, or safeguard on a journey or excursion; as, to travel under the escort of a friend.
- English Word Escort Definition To attend with a view to guard and protect; to accompany as safeguard; to give honorable or ceremonious attendance to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.
- English Word Escorted Definition of Escort
- English Word Escorting Definition of Escort
- English Word Escot Definition See Scot, a tax.
- English Word Escot Definition To pay the reckoning for; to support; to maintain.
- English Word Escouade Definition See Squad,
- English Word Escout Definition See Scout.
- English Word Escribed Definition Drawn outside of; -- used to designate a circle that touches one of the sides of a given triangle, and also the other two sides produced.
- English Word Escript Definition A writing.
- English Word Escritoire Definition A piece of furniture used as a writing table, commonly with drawers, pigeonholes, and the like; a secretary or writing desk.
- English Word Escritorial Definition Of or pertaining to an escritoire.
- English Word Escrod Definition See Scrod, a young cod.
- English Word Escrol Definition Alt. of Escroll
- English Word Escroll Definition A scroll.
- English Word Escroll Definition A long strip or scroll resembling a ribbon or a band of parchment, or the like, anciently placed above the shield, and supporting the crest.
- English Word Escroll Definition In modern heraldry, a similar ribbon on which the motto is inscribed.
- English Word Escrow Definition A deed, bond, or other written engagement, delivered to a third person, to be held by him till some act is done or some condition is performed, and then to be by him delivered to the grantee.
- English Word Escuage Definition Service of the shield, a species of knight service by which a tenant was bound to follow his lord to war, at his own charge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction. Called also scutage.
- English Word Esculapian Definition Aesculapian.
- English Word Esculapius Definition Same as Aesculapius.
- English Word Esculent Definition Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish.
- English Word Esculent Definition Anything that is fit for eating; that which may be safely eaten by man.
- English Word Esculic Definition Pertaining to, or obtained from, the horse-chestnut; as, esculic acid.
- English Word Esculin Definition A glucoside obtained from the Aesculus hippocastanum, or horse-chestnut, and characterized by its fine blue fluorescent solutions.
- English Word Escurial Definition A palace and mausoleum of the kinds of Spain, being a vast and wonderful structure about twenty-five miles northwest of Madrid.