subs. (venery).—The penis; the TAIL (q.v.): see PRICK. Hence TO STRIP ONE’S TARSE IN = subagitare: see GREENS and RIDE; and TARSANDER = a STALLION (q.v.).
14[?]. Porkington MS., 10.
| Now ȝe speke of a TARSE, | |
| In alle the warld is not a warse | |
| Thane hathe my hosbond. |
1686. EARL OF DORSET, A Faithful Catalogue of our Most Eminent Ninnies [ROCHESTER, Works (1718), II. 32].
| Her rapacious Arse | |
| Is fitter for thy Scepter than thy TARSE. | |
| Idem. 35. | |
| How often prais’d thy dear curvetting TARSE. |
1682. Juvenalis Redivivus, 7. Let’s draw our pens and quit TARSANDER’S praise. [See also Note 7, page 31.]
