gesca
- noun [ masculine ]
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Gesca, iesca
singultus,
- Txts. 97, 1865.
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Gescea
singultum,
- Wrt. Voc. i. 289, 35.
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Gesca
tentigo
(cf. extentio, i. tenacitas ventris, tentigo,- Wrt. Voc. ii. 145, 59), Txts. 101, 1996.
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Hwonan se micla geoxa cume, oþþe hú his mon tilian scule . . . þonne forstent se geohsa,
- Lch. ii. 60, 17-23 : 25: 28 : 62, l, 9.
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Þám monnum þe for fylle gihsa slihð
for the men that hiccough attacks on account of repletion,
- 60, 24.
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Sicetit vel gesca sláet
singultat,
- Txts. 97, 1857.
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Sele him wiþ geohsan ceald wæter and eced drincan,
- Lch. ii. 62, 13.
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III. sobbing :--
Mé
þiós siccetung hafað ágǽled, þes. geocsa (cf. ic nú wépende and gisciende . ; . misfó,- Bt. 2 ; F. 4, 8), Met. 2, 5.
Bosworth, Joseph. “gesca.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/49485.
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