Geason

Alternative forms

• geazon, gaison, gessen

Origin

From Middle English geson, gesene ("rare, scarce"), from Old English gǣsne ("deprived of, wanting, destitute, barren, sterile, dead"), from Proto-Germanic *gaisnijaz ("barren, poor"), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰē- ("to be gaping, yawn"). Cognate with North Frisian gast ("barren"), Low German güst ("barren"), Old High German geisini, keisini ("lack").

Full definition of geason

Adjective

1. (rare or dialectal) Rare; uncommon; scarce.
• Such as this age, in which all good is geason, ... — Spenser.
• This white falcon rare and gaison, This bird shineth so bright. — Prog. of Eliz.
• 1825 , , A Select Collection of Old Plays Chapter The Wounds of Civil War II , Lectorius, friends are geason now-a-days …
• 1937 , , Elizabethan Critical Essays Chapter , … ye shal finde many other word to rime with him, bycause such terminations are not geazon, …
2. (UK dialectal) Difficult to procure; scant; sparing.
3. (rare or dialectal) Unusual; wonderful.