WAYZG00SE  , a See also:

• TERM

term for the See also:

• ANNUAL

annual See also:

• DINNER

dinner and outing' of printers and their employes . The derivation of the term is doubtful . It may be a misspelling for " wasegoose," from See also:

• VASE
• VASE (through Fr. from Lat. vas, a vessel, pl. vasa, of which the singular vasum is rarely found; the ultimate root is probably was-, to cover, seen in Lat: vestis, clothing, Eng. " vest," Gr. to-th c, and also in " wear," of garments)

vase, See also:

• MID

Mid . Eng. for " sheaf," thus meaning sheaf or See also:

• HARVEST (A.S. hcerfest " autumn," O.H. Ger. herbist, possibly through an old Teutonic root representing Lat. car pere, " to pluck ")

harvest See also:

• GOOSE (a common Teut. word, O. Eng. gOs, pl. ges, Ger. Gans, O. Norse gas, from Aryan root, ghans, whence Sans. hansa, Lat. anser (for hanser)
• GOOSE (GAME OF)

goose, the See also:

• BIRD

bird that was See also:

• FIT

fit to eat at harvest-See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, the "stubble-goose " mentioned by See also:

• CHAUCER, GEOFFREY (? 1340-1400)

Chaucer in " The See also:

• COOK
• COOK, ALBERT STANBURROUGH (1853– )
• COOK, EDWARD DUTTON (1829–1883)
• COOK, ELIZA (1818–1889)
• COOK, JAMES (1728-1779)
• COOK, THOMAS (1808-1892)

Cook's See also:

• PROLOGUE (from Gr. 7rpo, before, and Myer, a word)

Prologue." It is more probable that the merry-making which has become particularly associated with the printers' See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade was once See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general, and an See also:

• IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation of the See also:

• GRAND

grand goose-feast annually held at Waes, in See also:

• BRABANT
• BRABANT, NORTH

Brabant, at Martinmas . The relations of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England and See also:

• HOLLAND
• HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
• HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
• HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
• HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
• HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
• HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
• HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
• HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART

Holland were formerly very See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close, and it is not difficult to believe that any outing or yearly banquet might.have grown to be called colloquially a " Waes-Goose." It is difficult to explain why the term should have only survived in the See also:

• PRINTING (from Lat. imprimere, O. Fr. empreindre)

printing trade, though the See also:

• ENGLISH

English printers owed much to their Dutch See also:

• FELLOW

fellow-workers . Certainly the goose has See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long ago parted See also:

• COMPANY

company with the printers' wayzgoose, which is usually held in See also:

• JULY

July, though it has no fixed See also:

• SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season . An unlikely See also:

• SUGGESTION

suggestion is that the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original wayzgoose was a feast given by an apprentice to his comrades at which the bird formed the See also:

• STAPLE

staple eatable .