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▪ I. † garse, n. Obs. Forms: 3 garce, 4 gerse, 5 gaarce, 6 garsshe, 3, 5–8 garse. See also gash. [a. OF. *garse, noun of action f. garser (see garse v.); cf. med.L. garsa, gersa incision, scarification.] A cut, incision, gash.
a1225Ancr. R. 258 Þeo ilke reouðfulle garcen [T. garses] of þe luðere skurgen. c1380Sir Ferumb. 3693 Þe dent of þat sper..Of ys skyn a litel hit nam. Richard gan grope to þat gerse. c1440Promp. Parv. 186/1 Gaarce, scarificacio, sesura, inscisio, scissura. 1530Palsgr. 224/1 Garsshe in wode or in a knyfe, hoche. 1611Cotgr., Chiqueture, a cutting; a gash, cut, garse. [1783Ainsworth's Lat. Dict. (Morell) 11, Incisura, a cut, gash, or garse.] ▪ II. † garse, v. Med. Obs. [a. OF. garser, jarser to scarify; in mod.F. gercer (dial. jarcer) to chap, open in cracks, in which sense Palsgr. has garscher. OF. garser glosses caraxāre (= char-), L. form of Gr. χαράσσειν to cut, incise: its identification with this word involves phonological difficulties, but is more plausible than the view of Diez that it represents a pop. L. type *carptiāre, f. carpĕre to pull, pluck. The development of Eng. garsh, gash from garse is obscure; Palsgrave's French form is perhaps not to be relied on.] trans. To scarify, to make a series of cuts or incisions in. Also absol.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. iii. (1495) 224 It is good to garse the legges byneth that the humours..may be drawe from the heed downwarde to the nether partyes. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 18 A surgian vndoiþ þat þat is hool, whanne he letiþ blood, eiþer garsiþ, eiþer brenneþ. 1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. Q j b, Gyue it small fyllyps with your nayle and garse it a newe that it may blede well. ▪ III. garse (measure for rice): see garce. |