† escarmouchen.
Obsolete.
A skirmish; also figurative a fit of anger.
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > skirmish
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skirmishc1374
pointc1440
scourage1470
escarmouche1475
scrimmage1488
scrimmish1523
eskirmish1581
bickerment1586
velitation1616
pickeer1659
1475 Bk. Noblesse 13 After many assautes and grete escarmisshes.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) ix. 62 The atheniens and ther allya..assailȝet the persans be excharmouschis and incursions.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 843/1 What shall wee say when a man is olde, and shoulde haue passed all those escharmouches.
1820 W. Scott Monastery III. xii. 302 Such of the men as have escaped this escaramouche.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
† escarmouchev.
Obsolete.
a. intransitive. To skirmish.
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)] > skirmish
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skirmishc1420
scrimmish1523
scrimmage?1536
escarmouche1560
velitand1641
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclviij He had hearde only of a fewe Spaniardes, that laye therin garrison, and them wold he haue prouoked to escarmouche.
b. transitive. To skirmish with; to engage.
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > fight (a battle, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > skirmish with
skirmishc1500
escarmouchec1550
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) ix. 61 Leonides..escharmouschit xerxes gryt armye and sleu tuenty thousand persuns.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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