1630. JONSON, The New Inn, I. Ease his pockets of a superfluous watch.
1817. SCOTT, Rob Roy, ch. viii. ‘The law’s hard—very severe—hanged poor Jack Winterfield at York, despite family connexions and great interest, all for EASING a fat West-country grazier of the price of a few beasts.
1840. THACKERAY, The Paris Sketch Book, p. 109. His was the place at the écarté table, where the Countess would EASE him nightly of a few pieces.
1849. Punch, Nov., ‘The Swell Mobsman’s Almanack.’ Remember, wen you’ve EASED a cove in a fogg, never cut away in an ’urry, or crushers stop you.
2. (venery).—To content a woman.
1861. A. C. SWINBURNE, Poems and Ballads. ‘Hermaphroditus.’ Hath made him man to EASE a woman’s sighs.
TO EASE ONESELF, verb. phr. (colloquial).—1. To ‘rear.’ For synonyms, see BURY A QUAKER.
2. (venery).—To ejaculate.
