neeze, v. Now north. dial. and Sc.
(niːz)
Forms: 4–6 nese, 6 niese, Sc. neys, nyse, 6–9 neese, (7 nees), 6– neeze.
[ME. nēsen, prob. ad. ON. hnjósa (Norw. njosa, nysa, Sw. nysa, Da. nyse) = OHG. niosan (G. niesen), MLG. nêsen, neysen, MDu. niesen (Du. niezen), prob. of imitative origin: cf. fnese, sneeze.]
To sneeze.
| c 1340 Nominale (Skeat) 172 Man cowith and nesith. 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) V. 389 A man nesynge. 1486 Bk. St. Albans c vij, When ye se yowre hawke Nesyng and Castyng wat thorogh her Nostrellis. 1544 T. Phaer Regim. Life (1553) A viij b, Ye must put in the nose of the pacient, pouder of pellitory of Spain..to make him to nese. 1586 Cogan Haven Health xxviii. (1636) 48 By eating of Mustard..we are straightway..provoked to neese. 1665 Spencer Vulg. Proph. 96 When any one neezed they would venerate the noise as a kind of expression of the Deity inshrined in the head. 1725 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Neesing, A Horse, whose Head being stopp'd..so that he cannot neeze. 1788 W. Marshall Yorksh. II. 343. 1825 Brockett N.C. Gloss. 1849– in northern dial. glossaries (also Chesh. and Shropsh.). 1870 J. Nicholson Idylls 64 A waff frae the door gars her 'neeze. |
Hence neeze n., a sneeze. rare.
| 1656 S. Holland Zara (1719) 54 Circumgyring about his Weasand, [it] inforced him to a manly Neese. 1866 in Banffsh. Gloss. 1899 in Cumbld. Gloss. |