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Name Term description
NameExtraordinary tidesman Term description

Customs officer who boards ships to check goods

NameEx. Term description

Extract

NameEXCS/EXECS Term description

Executors

NameEdict Term description

A legally authoritative proclamation made in a public place summoning persons to appear (compear) before the courts.

NameEik Term description

An addition or supplement to a deed.

NameEntail Term description

[See also 'tailzie'] A deed by which the legal course of succession to lands can be altered and another one substituted, or by which the descent of the lands can be secured to a specified succession of heirs and substitutes.

NameEntres Term description

Interest

NameExecutor Term description

The legal administrator of the moveable property of a dead person, either nominated in the deceased's testament or by the Commissary Court.

NameExecutrix Term description

A female executor

NameEll Term description

1. A unit of distance. One ell was equal to 3 and 1/12 feet. Scots measurements of distance were slightly larger than the analogous Imperial measurements. 2. A unit of square measure, slightly larger than an Imperial yard.</p><p>For more information, see our guide to <a href="/guides/weights-and-measures">weights and measures</a>.

NameEasle tooth Term description

Molar

NameEebrier Term description

Eyebrow

NameEewinker Term description

Eyelash

NameElectuar Term description

Elixir, medicinal syrup

NameElic/eleak Term description

Iliac, intestinal

NameErn Term description

To hurt or&nbsp;irritate

NameEsscock Term description

Inflamed pimple

NameEtten and spued Term description

Unhealthy complexion (literally 'eaten and spewed').&nbsp;Also found in the form&nbsp;'glaipit and spued' (to glaip is to gulp down).

NameEvil Term description

Scrofula, tuberculosis affecting the lymphatic glands.