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wezon

wezon is the obsolete spelling of weasand.

Meaning of weasand

Noun

weasand (plural weasands)

  1. (dialectal) The oesophagus; the gullet.
    • By Heaven, and all saints in it, better food hath not passed my weasand for three livelong days, and by God’s providence it is that I am now here to tell it.1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XLII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst...
  2. (dialectal) The throat or windpipe.
    • […] Or cut his vvezand vvith thy knife.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...

Forms of wezon

pluralwezons

Questions about wezon

What is wezon the obsolete spelling of?
Wezon is the obsolete spelling of weasand.

Words near wezon in the dictionary

  1. wezand
  2. wezands
  3. wezeer
  4. Wezen
  5. Wezn
  6. wezon
  7. wezons
  8. weïrd
  9. wf
  10. WFA
  11. WFC

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wezon (page history and authors); weasand (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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