m. I. a prick, puncture, stab, thrust with a pointed implement:--Se ðe ús gehǽleþ from ðæm stice úrra synna hé geðafode ðæt him mon sette ðyrnenne beág on ðæt heáfud a peccatorum nos punctionibus salvans spinis caput supponere non recusavit, Past. 36, 9; Swt. 261, 13. Gif man þeóh þurhstingþ, slicc gehwilce .vi. scillingas, L. Ethb. 67; Th. i. 18, 16. II. a pricking sensation, a stitch:--Gif stice bútan innoðe sié, Lchdm. ii. 274, 28. Wið miltewærce and stice, 174, 4. Se hwíta stán mæg wiþ stice, 290, 10. Wið eágena hǽtan and stice, i. 352, 5. [Wið gestice, 393, 20.] [In his soule he hefde þe stiche of sore pine. . . . Þeos stiche was þreouold, þet, ase þreo speres smiten him tó þer heorte, A. R. 110, 12-14. Stiches iþi lonke, H. M. 35, 26. Styche, peyne on þe syde telum, Prompt. ParGoth. stiks a point of time: O. Frs. steke a prick, stab: O. H. Ger. stih[h]ictus: Ger. stich a prick, stitch, puncture: Dan. stik a stab: Swed. stick a prick, stitch, stab.] and next word. stice