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eschale (s.xii2/4)
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eschale (s.xii2/4)

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escale,  escalle,  eskale;  escaille;  ecale;  ascale  
  FEW:  *skalja 17,88a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  escaille 9,505a TL: eschaille 3,829 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  écaille  TLF:  écaille  OED:  scale n. 2  MED:  scale n. 1  DMLBS: ∅

s.

1crustaceananat.shell: 
( s.xii2/4; MS: c.1200 )  hom put metre les eschales des musles en liu des perles en medecine  Lapid 108.XXXVIII.20
♦zool.shell (of egg): 
( MS: s.xii2 )  pernez les escales des oes  Med Recs 182
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Furme de oef prist, [...] Defors fud dure e escale fist  S Clem ANTS 11025
( c.1290; MS: 1307-25 )  Oustés l’eschale (M.E. schelle) einz q’il hume (M.E. soup) (=before the child consumes the egg)  BIBB ROTH (G) 201
♦zool.anat.shell (of snail): 
( MS: s.xiii3/4 )  limaison Qui de escale fait maison  Pop Med 182.1062
♦bot.fruitshell (of nut): 
( MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Les escales de nois petites  Pop Med 161.378
( MS: c.1325 )  un eschale d’un grant noiz  Receptaria 146.644
♦crustaceanscallop, pilgrim’s cockle-shell: 
( 1171-74; MS: c.1200 )  de Rochemadur, Marie en plum getee, De Saint Jame, l’escale qui en plum est muee  Becket1 5898
2ich.anat.(of fish) scale: 
( 1266-1300; MS: c.1300 )  Les uns (=fishes) ont une pias sens escales, cum sunt ballaines et porpois et enguilhes  Waterford busby 285.S99.12
3crustaceanoyster: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Eschales ad en l’idle; quant eles porter deivent, Overent sey al chalur  Rom Chev ANTS 5512
( MS: s.xiiiex )  ostra notat testam: escale  TLL ii 166

s. pl.

pathol.scales (of scurf): 
( s.xiii; MS: s.xiii2 )  Ecales nesent en la teste, que [...] funt les chevous porrir  Orn Dames 154

See also:

schale 
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