*échillon, n.m., waterspout.
échimose, n.f. V. ecchymose.
échine, n.f., spine, backbone, chine; (arch.) echinus, ovolo. Une maigre —; a thin, lank person. Crotté jusqu’à l’—; bespattered, or splashed, up to the neck (with mud).
échiné, part., adj., broken-backed; belabored; beaten to death; tired out.
échinée, n.f., (cook.) chine, chine-piece.
échiner, v.a., to break the back, to kill, to murder; to beat unmercifully; to knock up, to tire out.
s’échiner, v.r., to knock one’s self up with work; to work one’s self to death; (of things) to get used up.
échinite (é-ki-), n.m., (foss.) petrified sea-hedgehog, echinite.
échinope (é-ki-), n.m., (bot.) echinops, globe-thistle.
échinophore (é-ki-), n.f. and adj., (bot.) prickly samphire; echinophora; (conch.) univalvular shell.