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gesca

  • noun [ masculine ]
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gesca, geocsa, geohsa, geoxa, gihsa, an ; m.
hiccough or
sobbing
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  • Gesca, iesca

    singultus,

      Txts. 97, 1865.
  • Gescea

    singultum,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 289, 35.
yox (v. D. D. s. v.),
hiccough
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  • Gesca

    tentigo

    (cf. extentio, i. tenacitas ventris, tentigo,
      Wrt. Voc. ii. 145, 59), Txts. 101, 1996.
  • Hwonan se micla geoxa cume, oþþe hú his mon tilian scule . . . þonne forstent se geohsa,

      Lch. ii. 60, 17-23 : 25: 28 : 62, l, 9.
  • Þám monnum þe for fylle gihsa slihð

    for the men that hiccough attacks on account of repletion,

      60, 24.
  • Sicetit vel gesca sláet

    singultat,

      Txts. 97, 1857.
  • Sele him wiþ geohsan ceald wæter and eced drincan,

      Lch. ii. 62, 13.
  • III. sobbing :--

    þiós siccetung hafað ágǽled, þes. geocsa (cf. ic nú wépende and gisciende . ; . misfó,
      Bt. 2 ; F. 4, 8), Met. 2, 5.
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v. giscian.
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v.  gihsa giscian geocsa geohsa geoxa gescea iesca.
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