lask
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ONF." is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. *lasque, from lasker ‘to loosen’ (corresponding to standard Old French lascher > French lâcher).
Pronunciation
Noun
lask (plural lasks)
- Diarrhoea (now only of animals).
- Template:RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncly, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.263:
- A grave and learned minister, and an ordinary preacher at Alkmaar in Holland, was (one day as he walked in the fields for his recreation) suddenly taken with a lask or looseness, and thereupon compelled to retire to the next ditch […].
- 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician, Folio Society 2007, p. 150:
- The emulsion or decoction of the seed stays lasks and continual fluxes, eases the colic, and allays the troublesome humours in the bowels […].
- Template:RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncly, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.263:
Anagrams
Livonian
Alternative forms
- (Courland) laskõ
Etymology
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Verb
lask