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▪ I. vease Now only s.w. dial.
Forms: 4 (9) vese (9 veze); 6–7 (9) vease, 7 veaze; 7 veeze (9 veese); 9 vaise, vaze, etc.
[Southern var. of feeze n.]
A rush, impetus; a run before a leap. (Cf. feeze n. 1 and 1 b.)
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1127 And ther out cam a rage, and such a vese, That it made al the gate for to rese. 1573Twyne æneid xii. N n 4 b, This vp in hand he caught, and tremblyng at his foe did flyng, Arysing up therwith, and forth his vease he fet withall. 1614Gorges Lucan i. 41 In this flitting whirle-winde vease, I passe the Mountaines Pyrinees. Ibid. viii. 346 O Marriners stay not my veaze, Headlong to plunge into the seas. a1618J. Davies (Heref.) Wit's Pilgrimage Wks. (Grosart) II. 31/2 From whence Loues lightest Muses take their veeze To leape into those Seas, which cares destroy. 1646in Dircks Life Marq. Worcester x. (1865) 171, I only would retire myself from further present charge, as a ram doth to take a greater vease. 1678Ray Prov. 78 Every pease hath its veaze, and a bean fifteen..signifies Pease are flatulent, but Beans ten times more. 1825Jennings Dial. W. Engl. 80 Vaze,..the distance employed to increase the intensity of motion or action from a given point. 1875Porson Quaint Words S. Worcs. 26 What a vese they [sc. the hounds] did go, surely.
▪ II. vease
dial. var. feeze v.1 |