Lucky Bamboo and Symbolic Chinese Number Meanings. The meanings then become a factor of which dialect you are speaking. Fortunately, the regional meanings remain similar in nature and taken together, enrich rather than contradict each other. Instead of one word, a number has several inflections from different dialects.
Escheat definition, the reverting of property to the state or some agency of the state, or, as in England, to the lord of the fee or to the crown, when there is a failure of persons legally qualified to inherit or to claim. See more.
eschew something (formal) to deliberately avoid or keep away from something He had eschewed politics in favour of a life practising law. Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French eschiver, ultimately of Germanic origin and related to German scheuen âshunâ, also to shy.