obessen.
Apparently a compositorial misreading of Chesse, variant of chess n.1
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a1629 C. Cornwallis Disc. Prince Henry (1641) 17 Hee..would sometimes play at Obesse at Biliors and at Cards.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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n.a1629- to cast into the shade
- to cast light on
- to cast light upon
- to cast loose
- to cast lot
- to cast lots
- to cast love, favour, a fancy unto
- to cast nasturtiums at
- to cast nasturtiums on
- to cast number
- to cast occasionally to make sheep's-eyes at
- to cast occasionally to make sheep'seyes at
- to cast off
- to cast off the yoke
- to cast on
- to cast on or consign to the scrap-heap
- to cast on or consign to the scrapheap
- to cast one in the teeth with
- to cast one's bread upon the waters
- to cast one's cap at
- to cast one's cassock to the nettles
- to cast one's frock to the nettles
- to cast one's garter
- to cast one's heart, affections
- to cast one's heels in one's neck