*escarbille, n.f., coal cinder, clinker.

escarbot, n.m., (ent.) horn-beetle.

escarboucle, n.f., (min.) carbuncle.

escarcelle, n.f., (jest.) purse, money-bag. Il a rempli son —; he has filled his purse.

escargot, n.m., snail, edible snail.

escarmouche, n.f., skirmish; brush. — de route; (milit.) running fight. Aller à l’—; to go out skirmishing; (fig.) caviling, bickering.

escarmoucher, v.n., to skirmish; (fig.) to cavil, to bicker.

escarmoucheur, n.m., skirmisher; caviler.

escarole, n.f., (bot.) endive.

escarotique, n.m. and adj., (med.) escharotic, caustic.