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esquire1 (s.xiii2/4)
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esquire1 (s.xiii2/4)

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  FEW:  excoquere 3,281a Gdf:  escuit 3,450c GdfC: ∅ TL: escuier 3,1024 DEAF:  escuire  DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  excoquere 835c

v.trans.

to empty, vent, void: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  s’il respunt engressement, Al chastiur ne seit a nient; Ne il nel deit tenir le pire [...] Ke sa mesaise tut esquit  Mirur1 121va19
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Et tant que les dous pars del jus soient esquites Et la tier[c] remaigne [...]  A-N Med ii 84.230
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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