estreat (estret)

t. [ If the condition of such recognizance be broken,.... the recognizance becomes forfeited or absolute; and being estreated or extracted (taken out from the other records, and sent up to the Exchequer), the party and his sureties are sued for the several sums in which they are re Black stone , Com., IV. xviii. spectively bound. (b) To levy (fines) under an estreat. The poor. seem to have a title, as well by justice as by charity, to the amerciaments that are estreated upon trespa es against their lord. Boyle, Against Swearing, p. 112. Estrelda (es-trel'dä), n. [NL., also Estrilda (Swains on, 1827), Astrelda, As trild a.] A genus of small conirostral oscine pa erine birds, baonly referred to a subfamily Spermestine, of the family Ploceidæ, and held to cover a large Est remen i an (es-tre-me'ni-an), a. and n. [ based the Loxia as trild a of Linnæus, com estradiot (es-trad'i-ot), n. [ Accompanied with cro e-bowe men on horsebacke, es tradiots, and footmen. Comines, tr. by Danet, sig. Ff 3.