v. Obs. Also 4–5 eschauffe, eschawfe. [a. Fr. eschaufe-r, eschauffe-r: see ACHAPE.] trans. To heat, warm; also fig. to heat with passion, inflame, excite. Also refl. to become hot.

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c. 1374.  Chaucer, Boeth., I. v. 22. Þe sedes … ben waxen hey[e] cornes whan þe sterre sirius eschaufeþ hym.

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1413.  Lydg., Pilgr. Sowle, I. xxvii. (1859), 32. Fyre warmeth and eschaufeth tho that stonde nye.

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a. 1450.  Knt. de la Tour, 164. To eschauufe and to draw the man or woman by sum falce delite vnto synne.

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c. 1475.  Partenay, 969. Wine … wold eschawfe the braines appetite.

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1530.  Palsgr., 539/2. By that tyme your horse be a lytle eschaufed, he wyll go well ynoughe.

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  Hence † Eschaufed ppl. a. † Eschaufing vbl. sb.

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c. 1374.  Chaucer, Boeth., IV. vi. 142. Þei wexen eschaufed in to hat[e] of hem þat anoien hem. Ibid. (c. 1386), Pars. T., ¶ 916. Euere the gretter merite shal he han, that moost restreyneth the wikkede eschawfynges of the ordure of this synne.

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