Middle English Dictionary Entry
onicha n.
Entry Info
| Forms | onicha n. Also onica. |
| Etymology | L onycha, from Gr. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
An ingredient of incense derived from a certain mollusk.
Associated quotations
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ex.30.34 : Take to þee swete smelling þingis..onycha [WB(2): onyca; WB(2) Gloss.: a litil oystre smellynge sweetely], galbantum of good smell..& þou schalt make..encense.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)251b/b : Thimiama is a certein confeccioun most precious, y-made of onica, of stacten, of Galbanus, of thus..and such confeccioun..schulde be offred in þe temple vpon þe autier.