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- 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.