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▪ I. lask, n.1|lɑːsk, læsk|
Also 6–7 laske.
[a. ONF. *lasque = Central OF. lasche loosening, relaxation, f. lasker = lascher (mod.F. lâcher) to loosen.]
1. Looseness of the bowels, diarrhœa; an attack of this; = lax n.2 1. Now only in veterinary use.
1542Fabyan's Chron. vii. 701 Many honeste persones died of y⊇ hote agues, and of a greate laske. 1574Newton Health Mag. 16 Meate excessively ingurgitate and eaten..engendreth..laskes and vomit. 1601Holland Pliny II. 93 The Cornell tree..is not good for bees, for if they chance to tast the floure therof, they fal presently into a vehement lask. 1671Salmon Syn. Med. iii. xxii. 433 Flixweed, the seed stops laskes, and issues of blood. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict., Aniseed, has the Virtue to appease Belly-Rumblings and Gripes, Lask, Vomiting, and the Hiccup. 1803Macnab in Prize Ess. Highl. Soc. II. 208 The Lask or Scour..generally originates from feebleness, cold, or grazing on a soft rich pasture, without a mixture of hard grass.
†2. A laxative, aperient; = lax n.2 2.
a1550Image Ipocr. in Skelton's Wks. (1843) II. 433 They gave ther lorde a laske To purge withall his caske.
3. Comb.: laskwort, a herb supposed to be a remedy for ‘lask’ or diarrhœa.
1647Lilly Chr. Astrol. ix. 64 Violets, Laskwort [etc.].
▪ II. lask, n.2|lɑːsk, læsk|
[? a. MDu. lasche, (prob. pronounced (lasxə)); mod.Du. lasch, pronounced |las| piece cut out, flap.]
(See quots.)
1864Couch Brit. Fishes II. 125 A hook baited with a slice (termed a lask) from the side of a mackarel. 1874Wood Nat. Hist. 581 To pass the hook through the thicker end of the strip—technically called a ‘lask’.
▪ III. † lask, a. Obs.
Also 5 laske.
[? a. ONF. *lasque = Central OF. lasche: see lash a.]
Loose (in the bowels); relaxed, weak. Cf. lash a. 2.
c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 91 He [buttir] norishethe a man to be laske. 1721Bailey, Lask, loose in the Belly. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Fever, His [horse's] lips and all his body grows lask and feeble.
▪ IV. lask, v.|lɑːsk, læsk|
Also 4–7 laske, 5 leske.
[? a. ONF. *lasquer = Central OF. lascher (mod.F. lâcher) to loosen, relax:—popular L. *lascāre = class. L. laxāre, f. lax-us lax a.]
†1. trans. To lower in quality, quantity, or strength, relax; to thin (the blood); to shorten (life); to alleviate (pain). Obs.
c1350Will. Palerne 570 Heiȝh hevene king to gode havene me sende oþer laske mi liif daywes wiþ inne a litel terme. Ibid. 950, I wol a litel and litel laskit [i.e. lask it] in hast. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 280 Summen seien þat olde men ben able to be kutt, for her blood is miche laskid & her hete. Ibid. 296 Þou schalt laske his greet blood wiþ blood-letyngis. c1440Jacob's Well 196 For þis superfluyte mayst þou neuere ben heyl in soule, tyl þis blood be leskyd in blood-letyng. a1450Myrc 1736 Laske hys peynes or cese hys synne.
†2. intr. To become loose in the bowels; to purge.
1552[see lax v.]. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. iii. Furies 529 Soft Child-hood puling..Are apt to Laske through much humidity. 1618Owles Almanack 43 Then will they untrusse a hoope and laske like a squirt. 1634R. H. Salernes Regim. 23 Goates milk..maketh a man to laske.
3. Naut. To ‘go large’; to sail neither ‘by the wind’ nor ‘before the wind’.
1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 40 When we cast about, shee beganne to vere shete, and to goe away lasking. 1626Capt. Smith Accid. Yng. Sea-men 29 Goe large, laske, ware yawning. 1684Bucaniers Amer. ii. (1698) 138 We bore up one point of the compass thereby to hinder her lasking away. 1726G. Roberts Four Years Voy. 378 You must put the Ship away lasking, or afore the Wind. 1756Gentl. Mag. XXVI. 602 The admiral..kept lasking away, angling from the enemy. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Lasking along, sailing away with a quartering wind.
†4. Mining. (App. used as a word of command: see quot.) Obs.
1747Hooson Miner's Dict. L iij, Lask [is] a word used in drawing Shafts, Sumps, &c. for Spare Rope, or not enough; as Lask, the Drawer understands he must let down more Rope; and no Lask is that the Rope is too short to hang on the Corfe.
Hence † ˈlasking vbl. n., purging, diarrhœa; ˈlasking vbl. n. and ppl. a. Naut., ‘(going) large’.
1527Andrew Brunswyke's Distyll. Waters B iv, The same water..stopped all maner of laskynge. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Lasking (Sea-Term), when a Ship sails neither by a Wind, nor directly before the Wind,..she is said To go lasking. 1882T. Roosevelt Naval War 1812 (1883) 120 The Java..came down in a lasking course on her adversary's weather quarter.
▪ V. lask, laskayre
obs. ff. lasque, lascar.
▪ VI. lask(e
variant of lesk, flank, groin. |