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swice

  • noun [ masculine ]
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swice, and (?) swicc, es; m.
Wright's OE grammar
§438;
A scent, smell
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  • Suice, suicae osma (Gk. óoun ; cf. Span, husmo smell, scent; andar a la husma to be on the scent; husmear

    to find out by smelling),

      Txts. 83, 1468.
  • Swice,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 63, 57.
  • Ðæt wæs swéte stenc . . . tó ðæm swicce men þrungon,

      Exon. Th. 359, 21; Pa. 66.
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v. swecc.
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