Escot
(Es*cot") n. [OF.] See Scot, a tax. [Obs.]
Escot
(Es*cot"), v. t. To pay the reckoning for; to support; to maintain. [Obs.] Shak.
Escouade
(||Es`couade") n. See Squad,
Escout
(Es*cout") n. See Scout. [Obs.] Hayward.
Escribed
(Es*cribed") a. [L. e out, out of + scribere to write.] 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.
Escript
(Es"cript) n. [OF.] A writing. [Obs.]
Escritoire
(Es`cri*toire") n. [OF. escritoire, F. écritoire, LL. scriptorium, fr. L. scriptorius belonging to
writing, fr. sribere to write. See Script, and cf. Scrutoire.] A piece of furniture used as a writing
table, commonly with drawers, pigeonholes, and the like; a secretary or writing desk.
Escritorial
(Es`cri*to"ri*al) a. Of or pertaining to an escritoire.
Escrod
(Es*crod") n. See Scrod, a young cod.
Escrol
(Es*crol", Es*croll") n. [See Escrow, Scroll.]
1. A scroll. [Obs.]
2. (Her.) (a) 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. (b) In modern heraldry, a similar ribbon on which
the motto is inscribed.
Escrow
(Es"crow) n. [OF. escroe, escroue, a roll of writings, bond. See Scroll.] (Law) 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. Blackstone.
Escuage
(Es"cu*age) n. [OF. escuage, F. écuage, from OF. escu shield, F. écu. See Esquire.] (Feud.
Law) 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.
Blackstone.
Esculapian
(Es`cu*la"pi*an) n. Æsculapian.
Esculapius
(Es`cu*la"pi*us) n. Same as Æsculapius.
Esculent
(Es"cu*lent) a. [L. esculentus, fr. escare to eat, fr. esca food, fr. edere to eat: cf. F. esculent.
See Eat.] Suitable to be used by man for food; eatable; edible; as, esculent plants; esculent fish.
Esculent grain for food.
Sir W. Jones. Esculent swallow (Zoöl.), the swallow which makes the edible bird's-nest. See Edible bird's- nest,
under Edible.
Esculent
(Es"cu*lent), n. Anything that is fit for eating; that which may be safely eaten by man.
Esculic
(Es*cu"lic) a. [From NL. Aesculus, the generic name of the horse-chestnut, fr. L. aesculus a
kind of oak.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the horse-chestnut; as, esculic acid.
Esculin
(Es*cu"lin) n. [See Esculic.] (Chem.) A glucoside obtained from the Æsculus hippocastanum,
or horse-chestnut, and characterized by its fine blue fluorescent solutions. [Written also æsculin.]
