gyse

gyse (plural gyses)

1. guise
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knyghtes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio i, verso, column 2, lines 133–135:

     And to the ladyes he reſtored agayn / The bodyes of her huſbandes yͭ were ſlayn / To done obſequies as tho was the gyſe

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• “gyse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• gysa (weak verb, a-infinitive)
• (strong verb):
  • gysa (a-infinitive)
  • gjosa, gjose (non-standard since 2012)

From Old Norse gjósa.

gyse (present tense gyser, past tense gyste, past participle gyst, passive infinitive gysast, present participle gysande, imperative gys)

1. (intransitive) to shiver, tremor
2. (causative) to make someone shiver in fear

gyse (present tense gys, past tense gaus, supine gose, past participle gosen, present participle gysande, imperative gys)

1. (intransitive) to boil, swell, blow

• “gyse” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.