guarish

English

Etymology

From the stem of Old French guarir, garir, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *warjaną.

Verb

guarish (third-person singular simple present guarishes, present participle guarishing, simple past and past participle guarished)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To heal or cure. [15th–16th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 41, page 473:

     [T]he Mayd / His readie vvound with better ſalues new dreſt, / Daily ſhe dreſſed him, and did the beſt / His grieuous hurt to guariſh, that ſhe might, […]