gyse

English

Noun

gyse (plural gyses)

Obsolete form of guise.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knightes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished as William Thynne, editor, The Woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed, with Diuers Addicions, which were Neuer in Printe before: With the Siege and Destruccion of the Worthy Citee of Thebes, Compiled by Ihon Lidgate, Monke of Berie. As in the Table More Plainly Dooeth Appere, London: Imprinted at London, by Ihon Kyngston, for Ihon Wight, dwellying in Poules Churchyarde, 1561, OCLC 932919585, folio I, verso, lines 133–135:
  And to the ladies he reſtored agayn / The bodies of her^{[sic, meaning their]} huſbandes that were ſlain / To done obſequies as tho was the giſe

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gyse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

yegs

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