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▪ I. easing, vbl. n.1|ˈiːzɪŋ|
[f. ease v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb ease. Mostly gerundial. Also † easing-chair, a nightstool.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Allegeance, an easing or succouring. 1598Shakes. Merry W. ii. ii. 179 For easing me of the carriage. 1626Bacon Sylva §757 The Staying and Easing of the Tooth-ach. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. xi. 54 The easing of her Masts and Shrouds, for some ships will saile much better when they are slacke. 1718Hickes & Nelson J. Kettlewell ii. §40. 149 The Easing and Pleasing many of his Poor Subjects. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. III. 3 Oct., The doctor..found Frogmore enthroned on an easing-chair. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 195 The taking away of an angle..of the rail..is called by workmen the easings of the rail. 1875‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Sports ii. viii. ii. §1. 649 Easing and starting are of course the exact opposites of each other.
▪ II. easing, vbl. n.2 Obs. exc. dial.|ˈiːzɪŋ|
Forms: 5 esyng, 9 dial. yeazin, 6– easing.
[contracted form of eavesing.]
= eavesing 2. Also in comb., as easing-drops, easing-sparrow.
a1400–50Alexander 1522 Euen als þe esynges ȝode ouer be þe costez. 1483Cath. Angl. 117 An Esynge, domicilium, tectum. 1580North Plutarch 597 He..lay without doors, under the easing of the House. 1611Manchester Court Leet Rec. (1885) II. 267 Anoyed by the water wch cometh from the easinge of the howse. 1781J. Hutton Tour Caves Gloss. (E.D.S.), Easings, eaves. 1857J. Scholes Jaunt 31 in Lanc. Gloss. (E.D.S.), See yo, Tim, hoo sed to me, iv ther is nah o felley peeorcht on th' yeazin's wi' o choilt in his arms. 1881Leicestersh. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Easings, eaves, more particularly the eaves of a stack or rick.
▪ III. easing, ppl. a.|ˈiːzɪŋ|
[f. ease v. + -ing2.]
That eases.
a1665J. Goodwin Filled w. Spirit (1867) 39 He did it upon lightening and easing circumstances. |