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licium

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Searchable Lemmata: licium (L), lice (AF).
Alternate Forms: licia, liciis, luuiz, lyz.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Raw Material; thread, yarn, string, thrum, or a length of such.(ante 1220 - circa 1500)
1. Panuliae [v.l. panuclae], quod [ex] eis panni texantur; ipsae enim discurrunt per telam. Stamen dictum quia rectum stat. Trama, quod via recta transmittatur per telam; est enim filus intra stamen currens. Licia sunt quibus stamina ligantur, quasi ligia. [DOE ISID. Etym. (19,29,7)]
2. [textor] cidulas habeat trabales ... licia [gl. hevelyredes, filys A. evedles] tam teni[i]s quam fimbriis apte associentur (v. Teaching Latin I 184) Gloss. [DMLBS NECKAM (Ut. 106) ante 1217]
3. ' licio -cis dicitur quod faciunt mulieres, unde hoc licium, .i. luuiz'. [AND Gloss Bod 730 (90) circa 1225/1250]
4. in quo(s) telorum stamina, tramas, insubilos, licia, radios, panulos videbamus, globellos etiam et mataxas, alibra, calata, que magis latine quaxilla [dicuntur], pensis plena videbamus, lanam et linum, biscum, canabium, fibrum, sericum, placium [DMLBS BALSH. Ut. 52 adds: 'gl. estupe, a placeo, -es, quia minime placet'] [AND TLL (1,175,24-27) ante 1300]
5. licium, throm Gloss. [DMLBS WW (licium) 1400/1499]
c.f.: efel, ligium, lussel, thrum
AF; Primarily N/A.
Sex: N/A    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Classical L.
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