weary2 (weri)

[ weasand (wēʼzand), n. [Also weazand, and formerly wesand, wezand, also dial. wezzen, wizen, wizzen, and wosen; E. dial. wosen ) = OFries. wāsende, wāsande, weasand, windpipe, = OHG. weisunt, MHG. weisant (E. Müller), weasand; cf. G. dial. (Bav.) waisel, wasel, wasling, the gullet of ruminating animals. The word (AS. wasend ) has the form of a present participle, and some have attempted to connect it with wheeze; this involves the a umption that the rare AS. verb hwesan (pret. hweós ), wheeze, = Icel. hvæsa, hi , = Dan. hvæse, hi , wheeze (not found in OHG., etc.), gave rise to a noun *hwesend, varying to *hwæsend, *hwāsend, meaning 'the wheezing thing, that this name was applied to all windpipes (most of which never wheeze), and that subsequently the initial consonant in hw -fell away, a phenomenon wholly unknown in other AS. words in hw-, and not recognized even in mod. English except in dialectal use.] The windpipe; the pipe or tube through which air pa es to and from the lungs in respiration; the trachea. See tracheal and larynx. Should I have named him? Nay, they should as soon have this weasand of mine. Latimer , 2d Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1550. Spenser, Shep. Cal., September. Had his wesand bene a little widder. Give me a razor there, that I may scrape his wees and, that the bristles may not hinder me when I come to cut it. Dryden, The Mock Astrologer, V. i. You may have a pot of porter, or two-but neither wine nor spirits shall wet your wizen this night, Tickler. Noctes Ambrosianæ , Feb., 1832.