escort (eskort)

t. [ In private haunt, in public meet, Salute, escort him through the street. P. Francis, tr. of Horace's Satires, i. Burleigh was sent to escort the Papal Legate, Cardinal Pole, from Bru els to London. Macaulay , Burleigh. =Syn. To conduct, convoy. escott (es-kot'), n. [OF.] Same as scot . escott (es-kot'), v. t. [OF. escotter ; from the noun: see escot , n ., and scot . ] To pay a reckoning for; support or maintain. Who maintains them? how are they escoted ? Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2.