English

Alternative forms

• geazon, gaison, gessen

Adjective

geason ‎(comparative more geason, superlative most geason)

1. (rare or dialectal) Rare; uncommon; scarce.
   • Spenser

     Such as this age, in which all good is geason, […]

   • Prog. of Eliz.

     This white falcon rare and gaison, This bird shineth so bright.

   • 1825, “The Wounds of Civil War [Act II]”, in John Payne Collier, Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, editor, A Select Collection of Old Plays, Digitized edition, published 2008, page 32:

     Lectorius, friends are geason now-a-days …

   • 1937,, George Gregory Smith, editor, Elizabethan Critical Essays, Digitized edition, published 2008, page 119:

     … ye shal finde many other word to rime with him, bycause such terminations are not geazon, …

2. (Britain dialectal) Difficult to procure; scant; sparing.
3. (rare or dialectal) Unusual; wonderful.