Lask

Quick meaning: Lask is a verb meaning (intransitive, obsolete) To have loose bowels; to suffer from diarrhoea.

Meaning

(intransitive, obsolete) To have loose bowels; to suffer from diarrhoea.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable, chiefly veterinary medicine) Originally of both persons and animals, now only of animals: looseness of the bowels; diarrhoea; (countable) a bout of this ailment.
2. (obsolete) Lax, weak; specifically of the bowels: affected by diarrhoea; loose.

Example Sentences

Pannick ſtoppeth the laske as Millet doth, being boiled (as Plinie reporteth) in Goates milk and drunke twiſe in a day.

The Emulſion or Decoction of the Seed ſtaieth Lasks and continual Fluxes, eaſeth the Chollick, and allayeth the troubleſom Humors in the Bowels, […]

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: […]

Word Forms

• lasks
• lasking
• lasked
• laske

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include languor, lout, lollop, scour, lard, slaister.

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