Obs. Also 6 terse. [OE. teors = OHG., MHG. zërs, MDu. teers, teres.] The penis.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., I. 358. Wið hærþena sare & teorses bares bræȝen meng wið huniȝ.
c. 1000. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 265/33. Calamus, teors, þæet wæpen uel lim.
1382. Wyclif, 1 Sam. xviii. 25. No sposeilis, but oonli an hundrid tersis [1388 prepucies] of Philisteis.
14[?]. MS. Porkington x (Halliw.). Now ȝe speke of a tarse.
1500–20. Dunbar, 7 Deidly Synnis, 88. Tersis.
1530. Palsgr., 279/2. Tarse of a man or beest, uit.
1730–6. in Bailey (folio).
