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spic

  • noun [ neuter ]
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Grammar
spic, es; n.
Wright's OE grammar
§42;
Bacon, lard, the fat flesh of swine
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  • Hi lares ðás hús; ðanon ys gecweden

    lardum

    spic, forðan ðe hit on húsum hangaþ lange,
      Ælfc. Gr. 9, 17; Zup. 42, 17.

  • Spic lardum, Wrt. Voc. i. 82, 25 : larda, 286, 52 : ii. 52, 1:

    tanea

    , i.
      26, 47.

  • Spices snǽd offella vel

    particula

    ,
      27, 19: ii. 65, 7 : Homl. Skt. ii. 25, 87.

  • Man nime áne cuppan huniges and healfe cuppan clǽnes gemyltes spices, and mængc on gemang ðæt hunig and ðæt spic tógædere,

      Lchdm. iii. 76, 5.

  • Án sconc spices

    a ham

    ,
      L. Ath. i. prm.; Th. i. 198, 7.

  • Hé ǽlce gére ágefe ðém hígum .iii. wéga spices,

      Chart. Th. 471, 14: 473, 28.

  • Speces,

      468, 24.

  • Mid ealdan spice oþþe mid ferscre buteran,

      Lchdm. ii. 354, 5.

  • Gemelte eald spic,

      52, 20.
  • Nim clǽne spic, iii. 40, 26.

  • Ðonne hé spic behworfen hæfþ

    when he has attended to the bacon,

      L. R. S. 7; Th. i. 436, 23.

  • Etan spice, Homl. Skt. ii. 25, 111. ¶

    Spic

    occurs in names of places where swine were fed, e. g.
      Holan-spic, Cod. Dip. Kmbl. i. pp. 115, 137, 184,
    but its meaning here is not evident. Kemble suggests that it may refer to the mast on which the swine were fed.
Etymology
[Þer com spic (fleas, 2nd MS. ), Laym. 24437. Spyk or fet flesche popa, Prompt. Parv. 469, col. 1. O. L. Ger. spec[-suín] : O. H. Ger. spech lardum: Ger. speck: Icel. spik fat of seals, whales, etc. , blubber: Dan. spek blubber, lard: Swed. späk lard.]
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v. offrung-spic.
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v.  spec.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “spic.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/28476.

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