245. #giscing#, covetousness: OE. #gītsung#; comp. ‘He bad him chesen
steres-men . . . ðe niðing and giscing flen,’ GE 3429, 3432; ‘Mid
yuernesse and prude . and yssyng wes þat on,’ OEM 38/35.
246. #wissing#: to OE. #wȳscan#: its meaning as a sin is shown by, ‘Ne
wrec þu þe mid wussinge . ne mid warienge,’ OEH ii. 179/22, avenge not
thyself by wishing evil or cursing.