v. Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 1 wésan, 5 wese, 6–7 wheeze, 5–9 dial. weeze, 6– weese. [OE. wésan (:—*wōsjan), f. wós OOZE sb.1] intr. To ooze, drip or distil gently.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., II. 44. Þonne ærest onʓinne se healsʓund wesan.
14[?]. Seven Deadly Sins, 58, in Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903), 246. He toke me ‘carytas,’ and put it in a clout, And bade me bame me well aboute, when hit wolde other water or wese.
a. 1555. Bradford, Writ. (Parker Soc.), I. 303. I will not speak of the often weesing out.
1591. Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. ii. 79. At his knots his Water wheezes forth.
c. 1620. Z. Boyd, Zion’s Flowers (1855), 11. It seemes I heare the water wheesing in.
1790. D. Morison, Poems, 105. Yon greetin’ cheese, Frae which the tears profusely weeze.
18[?]. in var. dial.: see Eng. Dial. Dict., s.v., Weeze.
