gypse, v.
(dʒɪps)
Also 5 gipse.
[In sense a. ad. L. gypsā-re, f. gypsum (see gypsum n.); in sense b. f. gyps.]
† a. trans. To close or plaster down with gypsum (obs.). b. To dress (a field) with gypsum; only in gypsed (dʒɪpst), ppl. a.
| c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. xi. 477 So gipse hit vp, and kepe hit for thyn age. Ibid. 524 Now gipse hit fast. 1850 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XI. ii. 434 The gypsed clover becomes a good crop, while the ungypsed clover is burnt up by the drought. |