Obs. [No etymology known: perhaps an error of Calamy’s, followed by Southey.]
a. 1732. E. Calamy, Nonconf. Mem., 581 (Boucher). To be bisk’d, as I think the word is, that is to be rub’d over with an inky brush.
1847. Southey, Doctor, chap. extra. (D.). The chapter … has not been bisked but semiramised.
