▪ I. vease Now only s.w. dial.
Forms: 4 (9) vese (9 veze); 6–7 (9) vease, 7 veaze; 7 veeze (9 veese); 9 vaise, vaze, etc.
[Southern var. of feeze n.]
A rush, impetus; a run before a leap. (Cf. feeze n. 1 and 1 b.)
| c 1386 Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1127 And ther out cam a rage, and such a vese, That it made al the gate for to rese. 1573 Twyne æneid xii. N n 4 b, This vp in hand he caught, and tremblyng at his foe did flyng, Arysing up therwith, and forth his vease he fet withall. 1614 Gorges Lucan i. 41 In this flitting whirle-winde vease, I passe the Mountaines Pyrinees. Ibid. viii. 346 O Marriners stay not my veaze, Headlong to plunge into the seas. a 1618 J. Davies (Heref.) Wit's Pilgrimage Wks. (Grosart) II. 31/2 From whence Loues lightest Muses take their veeze To leape into those Seas, which cares destroy. 1646 in Dircks Life Marq. Worcester x. (1865) 171, I only would retire myself from further present charge, as a ram doth to take a greater vease. 1678 Ray Prov. 78 Every pease hath its veaze, and a bean fifteen..signifies Pease are flatulent, but Beans ten times more. 1825 Jennings Dial. W. Engl. 80 Vaze,..the distance employed to increase the intensity of motion or action from a given point. 1875 Porson Quaint Words S. Worcs. 26 What a vese they [sc. the hounds] did go, surely. |
▪ II. vease
dial. var. feeze v.1