Fíc

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - fíc

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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FÍC
m. I. a Fig, the fruit of the fig-tree; fīcus: found at present only in the following compounds in the sense of a tree or fruit, etc. -- fíc-æppel, -beám, -leáf, -treów. II. a disease so called, the piles, hemorrhoids; fīcus :-- Wið seóndum ómum, ðæt is fíc for running erysipelas, that is the 'fig,' L. M. cont. 1, 39; Lchdm. ii. 10, 7: L. M. 1, 39; Lchdm. ii. 102, 12. Lǽcedómas and drencas and sealfa wið fíce medicines and drinks and salves for the 'fig,' L. M. cont. 1, 57; Lchdm. ii. 12, 18. Gif se fíc [MS. uíc] weorþe on mannes setle geseten, if the 'fig' be settled on a man's fundament, Lchdm. iii. 30, 16. Se blédenda fíc the bleeding 'fig,' iii. 38, 8. Wið ðone blédendne [MS. blédende] fíc nim murran ða wyrt for the bleeding 'fig' take the plant sweet-cicely, iii. 8, 1. [Plat. fige, f: Dut. vijg, f: Ger. feige, f: M. H. Ger. víge, f: O. H. Ger. fíga. f: Lat. fīcus, f. and m.] fic
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