† ˈvesike Obs.
Also 6 vesyke, visyke.
[ad. L. vēsīca vesica.]
a. The bladder. b. A bladder-like vessel or formation; a vesicle.
| 1540 R. Jonas Birth Man. i. 14 b, Sometyme the vesyke or bladder..be also apostumat & blystered. 1545 T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde p. i, Yf..the visyke or bladder be swollen or encombred with the stone. 1548–77 Vicary Anat. viii. (1888) 71 The chest of the Gal..is as a purse or a pannicular vesike in the holownesse of the Lyuer. |