lask

See also: låsk, läsk, läsk', and łask

English

Etymology

From Old Northern French *lasque, from lasker ‘to loosen’ (corresponding to standard Old French lascher > French lâcher).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /lɑːsk/, /læsk/
  • Rhymes: -æsk

Noun

lask (plural lasks)

  1. Diarrhoea (now only of animals).
    • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
      , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.263:
      A grave and learned minister, and an ordinary preacher at Alkmaar in Holland, was (one day as he walked in the fields for his recreation) suddenly taken with a lask or looseness, and thereupon compelled to retire to the next ditch […].
    • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician, Folio Society 2007, p. 150:
      The emulsion or decoction of the seed stays lasks and continual fluxes, eases the colic, and allays the troublesome humours in the bowels […].

Anagrams

Livonian

Alternative forms
  • (Courland) laskõ

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *laskedak.

Verb

lask

  1. let
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