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z) Forms: 4-6 dase, (5 dayse, 6-9 daise), 6- daze. [ME. dase-n, a. ON. *dasa, found in Icel. in the refl. dasa-sk to become weary and exhausted, e.g. from cold, Sw. dasa intr. to lie idle; cf. Icel. dasi a lazy fellow. Sense 3 was possibly the earliest in Eng. No cognate words appear in the other Teutonic langs.]
I. trans.
1. To prostrate the mental faculties of (a person), as by a blow on the head, a violent shock, weariness, intoxicating drink, etc.; to benumb or confuse the senses; to stun, stupefy.
c1325 [see
DAZED 1].
a1400-50 Alexander 3997 He was dased of
e dint & half dede him semyd.
c1400 Destr. Troy 7654 The deire of his dynt dasit hym but litle.
a1563 BALE Sel. Wks. (Parker Soc.) 443 These things daseth their wits, and amazeth their minds.
1590 SPENSER F.Q. III. vii. 7 But shewd by outward signes that dread her sence did daze.
1669 DRYDEN Tyrannic Love IV. ii, Poor human kind, all dazed in open day, Err after bliss, and blindly miss their way.
1825 JAMIESON s.v., He daises himself with drink.
1848 MRS. GASKELL Mary Barton xxiii, Jane Wilton was (to use her own word, so expressive to a Lancashire ear) ‘dazed’.
1877 MRS. OLIPHANT Makers Flor. i. 26 A man dazed and bewildered by such a calamity.
2. esp. To confound or bewilder (the vision) with excess of light or brilliance; to dazzle. lit. and fig.
a1529 SKELTON Ph. Sparowe 1103 She made me sore amased Vpon her when I gased..My eyne were so dased.
1570 B. GOOGE Pop. Kingd. I. (1880) 11 They are but trumprye and deceytes, to daze the foolish eies.
1631 HEYWOOD Fair Maid of West II.
I. Wks. 1874 II. 352 To daze all eyes that shall behold her state.
1847 TENNYSON Princ. v. 11 The sudden light Dazed me half-blind.
1864 SKEAT Uhland's Poems 152 Shall earthly splendour that strong eyesight daze?
3. To benumb with cold; to blight or destroy with cold. north. Eng. and Sc.
1340 HAMPOLE Pr. Consc. 6647
For-
i at ai..Brynned ay here in
e calde of malice, And ay was dased in charité.
1513 DOUGLAS Æneis VII. Prol. 88 The callour air..Dasing the blude in euery creature.
1696 Money masters all Things lxx. 52 They [birds] stay not too long off, lest th' Eggs be daz'd.
1876 Mid-Yorkshire Gloss.,
Dêaze, to blight, or cause to pine from cold, as when vegetables are frost-nipped, or chickens die in the shell for want of warmth.
1891 ATKINSON Moorland 336 He assumed that it [a water rail] was dazed with cold.
II. intr.
4. To be or become stupefied or bewildered; to be benumbed with cold; to remain inactive or torpid. Obs.
c1325 E.E. Allit. P. C. 383
er he [the king of Nineveh] dased in
at duste, with droppande teres.
c1460 Towneley Myst. 28, I dase and I dedir For ferd of that taylle.
14.. Kyng & Hermit 418 in Hazl.
E.P.P. I. 29 Hopys thou, I wold for a mase Stond in the myre there, and dase Nye hand halve a dey?
1483 Cath. Angl. 90 To Dayse (A. Dase),
vbi to be callde.
1529 MORE Supplic. Soulys Wks 331/2 Whan his head first began to dase, of that evill drynke.
5. Of the eyes or vision: To be or become dazzled. Obs.
c1386 [see
DASWEN].
1529 MORE Dyaloge IV. Wks. 252/1 Which law if it were laied in their light..wold make al theyr eyen dase.
1635 QUARLES Embl. III. i. (1718) 125 Whose more than Eagle-eyes Can..gaze On glitt'ring beams of honour, and not daze.
b. To gaze stupidly or with bewildered vision (after, upon). Obs.
1523 SKELTON Garl. Laurel 641, I saw dyvers..Dasyng after dottrellis.
1535 COVERDALE Deut. xxviii. 32 Thine eyes shal dase vpon them all the daye longe.
6. Of bread or meat: To become DAZED (sense 3). Now local.
1769 MRS. RAFFALD Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 54 Observe always to have a brisk clear fire, it will prevent your meat from dazing.
7. ‘To wither; to become rotten or spoiled, from keeping, dampness, etc.’ (Jamieson). Sc. and north. Eng.
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