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cwice

  • noun [ feminine ]
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cwice, an; f.
Quick-growing grass, couch-grass, quitch-grass ; gramen
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  • Cwice

    gramen,

    • Ælfc. Gl. 42
    • ;
    • Som. 64,
    • 24;
    • Wrt. Voc. 31,
    • 34.
  • Genym ðysse wyrte leáf, ðe man gramen, and óðrum naman cwice nemneþ take leaves of this herb, which is named gramen,

    and by another name quitch,

    • Herb. 79
    • ;
    • Lchdm. i. 182, 8: Lchdm. iii. 12, 28: 16,
    • 8.
  • Genim cwican

    take quitch,

    • L. M. 2,
    • 51;
    • Lchdm. ii. 268,
    • 10.
Etymology
[
Plat. qwäk, queek, quek, quik viticum repens:
Dut. kweek-gras , n. dog's grass:
Ger. quecke , f. any grass with creeping roots:
Dan. qwik-græs couch-grass:
Swed. qwick-hwete , n. dog's grass growing among wheat.
]
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