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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Eschewar, n. [e.m.E. eschewer (1578).] An escaped prisoner. —1579 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 115.
In cais ony happin to eschaip … his saidis catiounaris to be ansuerabill for the debtt and cryme for the quhilk the eschewar was incarceratt
