reesed, reezed, ppl. a.
(riːzd)
Also 5 resside, 6 re(e)z'd, 7 reised; 8 reased, 9 reazed.
[Later form of rest a.; cf. reasty.]
Rancid.
| 1486 Bk. St. Albans C vij, Upon that powdre do a litill larde that is resside. 1598 Bp. Hall Sat. iv. ii. 36 Once a weeke, perhaps, for nouelty, Reez'd bacon soords shall feast his familie. 1598 Marston Sco. Villanie i. iii. 183 What Academick starued Satyrist Would gnaw rez'd Bacon? 1607 Markham Caval. vii. (1617) 56 Their insides are..in colour yellow like reesed bacon. 1641 Curates Conference in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) IV. 376 He..looks like a piece of reesed bacon, ever since the plot failed. 1727 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Garget, Put in a little reased bacon and boil them altogether. 1883 Almondbury Gloss., Reezed or Reazed, a term applied to rancid bacon. |