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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.

ATESTE (mod. Este,q.v.), an ancient town of Venetia, at the southern foot of the Euganean hills, 43 ft. above sea-level; 22m. S.W. of Patavium (Padua). The site was occupied in very early times, as the discoveries since 1882 show. Large cemeteries have been ex

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

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