▪ I. heeze, heize, v. Sc. and north.
(hiːz)
Forms: 4–6 heis, hese, 6 heiss, heise, 6–9 hease, 8–9 heeze, 9 heize.
[orig. identical with hysse, hyse, hyce, early forms of hoise v.; cf. Icel. hisa, Da. hisse, heise, LG. hiesen, hissen, Du. hijschen; Fr. hisser.]
trans. To hoist, raise, elevate, push or pull up: generally with the notion of exertion. Also fig.
| 1513 Douglas æneis v. xiv. 6 Than all sammyn, with handis, feit, and kneis, Did heis thar saill, and trossit doun ther teis. Ibid. ix. viii. 112 All sammyn haistand wyth a pavis of tre Hesit togidder abuf thar heidis hie. 1549 Compl. Scot. vi. 41 The marynals began to heis vp the sail, cryand, heisau, heisau. 1589 R. Bruce Serm. (1843) 166 To have our hearts heased and our minds lifted vp to the heavens. 1721 Ramsay Answ. Bourchet 19 Up to the stars I'm heez'd. 1780 J. Mayne Siller Gun iii. 135 Heeze up his carcass on a chair. 1893 Northumbld. Gloss., Heeze,..to hoist, to elevate. |
▪ II. heeze, heize, n. Sc.
[f. heeze v.]
The act of hoisting or raising; a lift.
| 1513 Douglas æneis iii. ii. 120 With mony heis and how. Ibid. iii. viii. 111 With mony heis and haill. 1790 Shirrefs Poems 77 (Jam.) I'll gie the match a heeze. a 1832 Scott in Lockhart xvi, As Scott has confessed, ‘the popularity of Marmion gave him such a heeze he had for a moment almost lost his footing’. |
Hence ˈheezy, in same sense.
| 1719 Ramsay Answ. Hamilton's 1st Ep. iii, When Hamilton..Lends me a heezy. 1815 Scott Guy M. xiii, If he had stuck by the way, I would have lent him a heezie. 1824 Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl., Heezie, a mighty lift. |