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† ˈgery, a. Obs.
[f. gere + -y1.]
Changeable, fitful, capricious.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 678 Right as the friday, soothly for to telle, Now it shyneth, now it reyneth faste, Right so can geery Venus ouer caste The heirtes of hir folk. 1399Langl. Rich. Redeles iii. 130 Gyuleris, Ioyfful, ffor here gery Iaces. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy i. iv, This gery fortune, this lady recheles. c1430― Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 24 A gery march his stondis doth disclose. 1430–40― Bochas iii. vii. (1554) 80 The gery Romains, stormie and vnstable. a1529Skelton Ware The Hawke 66 His seconde hawke waxid gery, And was with flying wery.
Hence † ˈgeriful a. Obs.—0 (see quot.; perh. mistake for gerful); also † ˈgeriness, changeableness.
1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy i. v, By gerinesse of this her reuolution. a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 69, I was adredde so of hir gerynesse. 1616Bullokar, Gerifull, changeable: sometime cruell. |