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

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

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1crustaceananat.shell: 
( s.xii2/4; MS: c.1200 )  hom put metre les eschales des musles en liu des perles en medecine  108.XXXVIII.20
♦zool.shell (of egg): 
( MS: s.xii2 )  pernez les escales des oes  182
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Furme de oef prist, [...] Defors fud dure e escale fist  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)  201
♦zool.anat.shell (of snail): 
( MS: s.xiii3/4 )  limaison Qui de escale fait maison  182.1062
♦bot.fruitshell (of nut): 
( MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Les escales de nois petites  161.378
( MS: c.1325 )  un eschale d’un grant noiz  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  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  122.1867
3crustaceanoyster: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Eschales ad en l’idle; quant eles porter deivent, Overent sey al chalur  5512
( MS: s.xiiiex )  ostra notat testam: escale  ii 166

s._pl.

1pathol.scales (of scurf): 
( s.xiii; MS: s.xiii2 )  Ecales nesent en la teste, que [...] funt les chevous porrir  154
schale 
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