† teiser Obs.
Forms: 5 teysoure, 6 teiser, 6–7 teaser, teazer, 7 teizer.
[Agent-n. from teise v.2]
One who rouses the game; spec. one of the first brace or leash of deerhounds let slip. (In later use confused in spelling with teaser.)
| c 1410 Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xxxv, Þe firste teysoure and þe resceyuour that draweth hym doune, shull parte þe skynne. c 1410 [see teise v.2]. 1575 Turberv. Venerie 266 By this worde teasers is ment, the first grey⁓houndes or brase or lease of greyhoundes which is let slip. c 1590 Greene Fr. Bacon i. 5 The loftie frolicke bucks, That scudded fore the teisers like the wind. 1616 Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 686 As neere the couert as you can conueniently, you shall place your Teasers, that is, the first brace of greyhounds for the course, which should be the lightest, nimblest, and swiftest dogges you haue. 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 189/1. |
| fig. 1642 Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. v. 66 But these Teazers, rather to rouze then pinch the Game, onely made Whitaker find his spirits. 1647 Clarendon Hist. Reb. v. §339 The Lord Paget likewise, who..had been one of their Teizers, to broach those bold, high Overtures. 1796 Campaigns 1793–4 II. v. 21 Francis himself, the great Carmagnol teizer. |