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FÍC

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
FÍC, es; m.
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.
a disease so called, the piles, hemorrhoids; fīcus
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  • 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.
Etymology
[
Plat. fige, f
:
Dut. vijg, f
:
Ger. feige, f
:
M. H. Ger. víge, f
:
O. H. Ger. fíga. f
:
Lat. fīcus, f. and m.
]
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  • FÍC, n.