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▪ I. tass1 Now only dial.|tɑːs, -æ-|
Also 4 tas, 4–5 tasse, 5 (7) taas.
[a. OF. tas masc. (Wace, 12th c.), also tasse fem. (13th c. in Godef.), = Pr. tatz; generally held to be of Low German origin: cf. Du. tas, MDu. also tass heap (not known elsewhere in Teut.): see Franck.]
A heap, pile, stack.
c1330Arth. & Merl. 6719 Thei lay of paiens mani tasse, Wide and side more and lasse. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 147 To ransake in the taas of the bodyes dede. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy iv. 2397 Worþi knyȝtes..In þe feld on ouþer part y-lorn, Which in þe taas ful besely þei souȝt. c1440Promp. Parv. 487/1 Tasse, of corne, or oþer lyke, tassis. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 42 Bestowe your Corne in severall tasses and moowes. 1616Bullokar Eng. Expos., Taas, an heape. 1735–6Pegge Kenticisms (E.D.S.), Tass⁓cutter, that utensil or implement with which they cut hay in the stack. Ibid., An hay-tass is an hay-mow. 1887Kentish Gloss., Tas, or tarse, a mow of corn.
▪ II. tass2 Now chiefly Sc.|tæs|
Forms: 5–9 tasse, 6 tais, tas, 6– tass.
[a. OF. tasse goblet (1380 in Godef.), in mod.F. cup = Pr., Cat., med.L. tassa (1337 in Du Cange), Sp. taza, Pg. taça, It. tazza, app. a. Arab. ṭass, ṭassah basin, usually held to be ad. Pers. tast cup, goblet.]
A cup or small goblet, esp. one of silver or the like; the contents of this; a small draught of liquor.
c1483Caxton Dialogues 21 Pawteners, tasses [Fr. Aloyeres, tasses], Coffyns and penners. 1513Douglas æneis xiii. ix. 25 The cowpis greit and drynkyn tassis fyne. 1549Compl. Scot. xvii. 145 To drynk vattir..in ane glas, or in ane tasse of siluyr. 1583Leg. Bp. St. Androis Pref. 136 We toome a tass of wyne. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. li, Great antick vessels, huge pots,..big tasses. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. iii. ii, Elspa, haste ye,..And fill him up a tass o' usquebæ. 1818Scott Rob Roy xviii, A tass of brandy or aquavitæ, or sic-like creature comfort. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Tass, a dish or a dram; as a tass of tea, or a tass of brandy. 1859Thackeray Virgin. liv, A little tass of Cherry-brandy! 1899Crockett Kit Kennedy 321 Scottish stone-ale, ‘virulent as a tass of raw brandy’.
▪ III. tass
obs. form of tache v.1, to stain. |