▪ I. weese, weeze, v. Obs. exc. dial.
(wiːz)
Forms: 1 wésan, 5 wese, 6–7 wheeze, 8–9 dial. weeze, 6– weese.
[OE. wésan (:—*wōsjan), f. wós ooze n.1]
intr. To ooze, drip or distil gently.
| c 1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 44 Þonne ærest onᵹinne se healsᵹund wesan. 14.. Seven Deadly Sins 58 in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 246 He toke me ‘carytas’, and put it in a clout, And bade me bame me well aboute, when hit wolde other water or wese. a 1555 Bradford Writ. (Parker Soc.) I. 303, I will not speak of the often weesing out. 1591 Sylvester Du Bartas i. ii. 79 At his knots his Water wheezes forth. c 1620 Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 11 It seemes I heare the water wheesing in. 1790 D. Morison Poems 105 Yon greetin' cheese, Frae which the tears profusely weeze. 18.. in var. dial.: see Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v. Weeze. |
▪ II. weese
var. wase.