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Definition of 'lask'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Diarrhoea (now only of animals).
  • *, 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 […].

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