iliche

iliche

1. Alternative form of yliche (“alike”)
   • c. 1225, Ancrene Ƿiſſe (Cotton MS. Cleopatra C. VI)‎, Herefordshire, published c. 1230; republished at London: British Library Digitised Manuscripts, 2013 March 29:

     The scorpiun is ones cunnes wurm thet haueth neb, ase me seith, sumdel iliche ase wummon, and is neddre bihinden

     The scorpion is a kind of crawling animal that, as they tell me, has a face a bit alike to a woman’s, and is a snake in the rear.

• ilighe, eliche, elighe

From Latin ilex. Compare Italian elce.

• IPA^(key): /ˈilike/

iliche f (plural iliches)

1. holm oak