weasand🔊

By Heaven, and all saints in it, better food hath not passed my weasand for three livelong days, and by God’s providence it is that I am now here to tell it.

[A]lthough the weazon, throtle and tongue [of birds] be the instruments of voice, and by their agitations doe chiefly concurre unto these delightfull modulations, yet cannot we assigne the cause unto any particular formation; […]

For at the Throat there are two cavities or conducting parts: the one the Oesophagus or Gullet, seated next the spine, a part official unto nutrition, and whereby the aliment both wet and dry is conveied unto the stomack; the other (by which tis conceived the Drink doth pass) is the weazon, rough artery, or wind-pipe, a part inservient to voice and respiration; for thereby the air descendeth into the lungs, and is communicated unto the heart […]