geazon

• geason, 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”).

geazon (comparative more geazon, superlative most geazon)

1. (rare or dialectal) Rare; uncommon; scarce.
   • 1821, Robert Laneham, Laneham's Letter‎, Digitized edition, published 2007, page 29:

     One had a saddle, another a pad or a pannel fastened with a cord, for girths were geazon.

   • 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, …

   • 1969, George Gascoigne, “Weedes”, in John William Cunliffe, editor, The Complete Works of George Gascoigne‎, Digitized edition, published 2009, page 370:

     Why live I wretch alas (quoth he) where all good luck is geazon?

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