vicine
/ˈvɪsɪn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An alkaloid extracted from the seeds of the vetch (Vicia sativa), as well as other species of Vicia. It is a white crystalline substance.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "it's difficult to apprehend , but that these avennues should in a short time be stopped up by the pressure of other parts of the matter , through its natural gravity , or other alterations made in the Brain : And the opening of other vicine passages might quickly obliterate any tracks of these ; as the making of one hole in the yielding mud , defaces the print of another near it"
- "If there may be allowed any general Way of calculating their Time, they happen from the Course of the Sun, as it respects the Æquinoctial only; for if these Æquinoxes prove rainy Seasons all over the World (as I am apt to think they are) whatever secret Cause operates with that Station of the Sun to produce them, will more effectually do it in those vicine Latitudes"
Etymology
From translingual Vicia + -ine.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more vicine (comparative)
most vicine (superlative)