Pronunciations (2)
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/lɑːsk/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
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/læsk/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
Verb
To have loose bowels; to suffer from diarrhoea.
Usage- Intransitive
- Obsolete
Adjective
Lax, weak; specifically of the bowels: affected by diarrhoea; loose.
Usage- Obsolete
Noun
Originally of both persons and animals, now only of animals: looseness of the bowels; diarrhoea; (countable) a bout of this ailment.
Usage- Uncountable
- Examples
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Pannick ſtoppeth the laske as Millet doth, being boiled (as Plinie reporteth) in Goates milk and drunke twiſe in a day.
More examples (1)
A graue & learned Miniſter, and an ordinary Preacher at Alcmar in Holland, was one day (as hee was walking in the fields for his recreation) ſuddenly taken with a laske or looſeneſſe, and therevpon compelled to retire to the next ditch; but being ſurpriſed at vnawares, by ſome Gentlewomen of his Pariſh wandering that way; was ſo abaſhed, that hee did neuer after ſhew his head in publike, or come into the Pulpit, but pined away with melancholy: […]
The Emulſion or Decoction of the Seed ſtaieth Lasks and continual Fluxes, eaſeth the Chollick, and allayeth the troubleſom Humors in the Bowels, […]