ycie

English

Adjective

ycie (comparative more ycie, superlative most ycie)

1. Obsolete form of icy.
   • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     To thrust his ycie fingers in my maw

   • 1605, The Trial of Chivalry (a play of uncertain unauthorship)

     Were it to search the furthest Northern clime / Where frosty Hyems with an ycie Mace / Strikes dead all living things, Ide find it out, / And borrowing fire from those fayre sunny eyne / Thaw Winters frost and warme that dead cold clime: […]

Anagrams

• EYCI, icey