Obs. [Sp. yeso GYPSUM.] = GESSO.
a. 1533. Ld. Berners, Gold. Bk. M. Aurel., let. xiv. (1535), 149. Ye made my figure with fete of straw, my legges of ambre,… the heed of yesso.
1619. Pasquil’s Palin., lxix. With Yesso they him purge, with Lime they choake him.
b. Applied to a kind of plaster which is trodden with grapes in the making of wine in Spain.
1875. Jrnl. Chem. Soc., 952.
