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ESKER (O. Irish eiscir), a local name for long mounds of glacial gravel frequently met with in Ireland. Eskers (the Swedish dsar) are among the occasionally puzzling relics of the British glacial period. They wind from side to side across glaciated country and ...

ESHER, WILLIAM BALIOL BRETT, IST VISCOUNT (18171899), English lawyer and master of the rolls, was a son of the Rev. Joseph G. Brett, of Chelsea, and was born on the i3th of August 1817. He was educated at Westminster and at Caius College, Cambridge. Called to

TESTER (Fr. tetiere, head-covering, from t&te), anything placed horizontally over the head, as the sound-board of a pulpit, the flat boards over an old-fashioned bed, &c.

... British Museum, Monasterio del Escorial, published at Madrid in 1876. ESCOVEDO— ESKER L. de Cabrera de Cordova, Felipe Segundo (Madrid, 1619); James Wadsworth, Further Observations of the English Spanish Pilgrime (London, 1629, 1630) ; Ilario Mazzorali de Crem ...

... o-Russian ice-sheet, and by subsequent Lacustrine deposits. A number of dsar or eskers occur on the slopes of the plateau. Ochre, brick, and pottery clays, as also limestone for building, are obtained, and there are chalybeate springs. The soil, which is claye ...