▪ I. † tarse1 Obs.
Also 6 terse.
[OE. teors = OHG., MHG. zërs, MDu. teers, teres.]
The penis.
| c 1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 358 Wið hærþena sare & teorses bares bræᵹen meng wið huniᵹ. c 1000 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 265/33 Calamus, teors, þæt wæpen uel lim. 1382 Wyclif 1 Sam. xviii. 25 No sposeilis, but oonli an hundrid tersis [1388 prepucies] of Philisteis. 14.. MS. Porkington x (Halliw.) Now ȝe speke of a tarse. 1500–20 Dunbar 7 Deidly Synnis 88 Tersis. 1530 Palsgr. 279/2 Tarse of a man or beest, uit. 1730–6 in Bailey (folio). |
▪ II. tarse2 rare—0.
(tɑːs)
[a. F. tarse, ad. L. tarsus.]
= tarsus 1.
| 1842 in Brande Dict. Sc., etc. Hence in later Dicts. |
▪ III. tarse
variant of tars Obs.