geason

• geazon, gaison, gessen

From Middle English geson, gesene (“rare, scarce”), from Old English gǣsne (“deprived of, wanting, destitute, barren, sterile, dead”), from Proto-Germanic *gaisnijaz (“barren, poor”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰē- (“to be gaping, yawn”). Cognate with North Frisian gast (“barren”), Low German güst (“barren”), Old High German geisini, keisini (“lack”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡiːzən/, /ˈɡeɪzən/, /ˈɡɛzən/

geason (comparative more geason, superlative most geason)

1. (rare or dialectal) Rare; uncommon; scarce.
   • Edmund Spenser

     Such as this age, in which all good is geason, […]

   • Prog. of Eliz.

     This white falcon rare and gaison,
     This bird shineth so bright.

   • 1825, “The Wounds of Civil War [Act II]”, in John Payne Collier, Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, editor, A Select Collection of Old Plays‎, Digitized edition, published 2008, page 32:

     Lectorius, friends are geason now-a-days …

   • 1937,, George Gregory Smith, editor, Elizabethan Critical Essays‎, Digitized edition, published 2008, page 119:

     […] ye shal finde many other word to rime with him, bycause such terminations are not geazon, […]

2. (Britain dialectal) Difficult to procure; scant; sparing.
3. (rare or dialectal) Unusual; wonderful.

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