Lusk vs Lask - What's the difference?
lusk | lask |
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:
As nouns the difference between lusk and lask
is that lusk is a lazy or slothful person while lask is diarrhoea (now only of animals).As an adjective lusk
is lazy or slothful.As a verb lusk
is to be idle or unemployed.lask
English
Noun
(en noun)- The emulsion or decoction of the seed stays lasks and continual fluxes, eases the colic, and allays the troublesome humours in the bowels […].