▪ I. † bisse1 Obs.
[a. med.L. (also OF.) bisse, L. bes two thirds of an as, etc., explained as be-is = binæ partes assis.]
Two thirds.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xvii. (1495) [The mone] abydeth in euery signe ii dayes & vi houres and bisse. Ibid. And full endyth his course in xxvij dayes and viij houres. |
▪ II. † bisse2 Obs. rare.
[a. OF. bisse, bisce, bische, mod.F. biche hind, doe.]
A female deer, a hind.
| c 1450 Venery de Twety in Rel. Ant. I. 154 Bestes of venery? Sire, of hertis, of bisses, of bukkes, and of doos. |
▪ III. † bisse3 Obs. rare.
[Watts Dict. Chem. I. 597 has ‘bissa-bol a gum-resin from Arabia, resembling myrrh.’]
Some odoriferous substance.
| 1608 R. Johnson Seven Champ. ii. C iij b, As though the heavens had rained downe showers of Campheare, Bisse or Amber greece. |
▪ IV. bisse
obs. form of bice, byss.