Vocabulary : Eschalot to Escheatable

Eschalot : See Shallot.
Eschar : A dry slough, crust, or scab, which separates from the healthy part of the body, as that produced by a burn, or the application of caustics. ;; In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams.
Eschara : A genus of Bryozoa which produce delicate corals, often incrusting like lichens, but sometimes branched.
Escharine : Like, or pertaining to, the genus Eschara, or family Escharidae.
Escharotic : Serving or tending to form an eschar; producing a scar; caustic. ;; A substance which produces an eschar; a caustic, esp., a mild caustic.

Eschatological : Pertaining to the last or final things.
Eschatology : The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.
Eschaunge : Exchange.
Escheat : The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the blood of the tenant, which may happen by his dying without heirs, and formerly might happen by corruption of blood, that is, by reason of a felony or attainder. ;; The reverting of real property to the State, as original and ultimate proprietor, by reason of a failure of persons legally entitled to hold the same. ;; A writ, now abolished, to recover escheats from the person in possession. ;; Lands which fall to the lord or the State by escheat. ;; That which falls to one; a reversion or return ;; To revert, or become forfeited, to the lord, the crown, or the State, as lands by the failure of persons entitled to hold the same, or by forfeiture. ;; To forfeit.
Escheatable : Liable to escheat.

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