Sc. 6 creische, cresche, 7–9 creish, 8 creisch, kreish, 9 creesh, cresh. [a. OF. craisse, cresse = graisse, gresse fat, grease:—L. crassa, fem. of crassus thick, fat, gross, in late L. also grassus (see Du Cange). In Gael. créis; cf. also gresche = GREASE.]
1. Grease, fat.
a. 1400. Burgh Lawis, lxviii. Woll, nowte cresche or swyne sayme.
1500–20. Dunbar, Dance Sevin Synnis, 99. In creische that did incress.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VII. xi. 61. Fat cresche or same.
1862. Hislop, Proverbs Scot., 41. Butter’s king o’ a’ creesh.
2. A ‘lick,’ a stroke. Cf. ANOINT v. 5.
a. 1774. Fergusson, Poems (1789), II. 93 (Jam.). Now some for this, wi’ satire’s leesh, Has gi’en auld Edinbrough a creesh.
1833. Moir, Mansie Wauch, xxii. (1849), 172. Give the beast a good creish.
