Spíca

Old English Dictionary Entry

Spíca

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words:

Definitions

1 spíca

m. Spikenard; any aromatic herb(?): -- Ðeós smerenes wæs geworht of ehtaténe cynna wyrtum; ðǽr wǽron þreó ða betstan -- ele, & nardus, & spíca (or is this merely the Latin word?), Blickl. Homl. 73, 21. Lǽcedóm . . . spícan wiþ útsihtan, and dracontjan wiþ fúle horas, . . . and balzaman smiring wiþ eallum untrumnessum, Lchdm. ii. 174, 4. spica

Runic Inscription

ᛋᛈᛁᚳᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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