m. An impetuous creature, a furious animal (used of the whale ; cf. the description in Wal. 5 : Se micla hwæl biþ unwillum oft gemēted frēcne and ferdgrim faredlācendum) :-- Fisc (a whale) flōdu āhōf on fergenberig; warþ gāsrīc grorn þǣr hē on greút giswom (the whale was sad at being stranded), Txts. 127, 6. [For sense of gas cf. Icel. geisa to rage, geisan impetuosity: for the compound cf. the proper name Gaisaricus, and for similar form in the case of a common noun cf. Germ. wüterich.] gas-ric