Rare; uncommon; scarce.
This white falcon rare and gaison, This bird shineth so bright.
Difficult to procure; scant; sparing.
Unusual; wonderful.
From Middle English geson, gesene (“rare, scarce”), from Old English gǣsne (“deprived of, wanting, destitute, barren, sterile, dead”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaisnī (“barren, poor”), from Proto-Ind...
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