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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1568-1623
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Mastic, n. Also: masti(c)k. [ME. masty(c)k (1398), -ik, e.m.E. mastic, F. mastic, late L. mastichum, L. masticha, etc.] The gum or resin, mastic (used in medicine and as an adhesive). Also fig., and comb. in oyle mastick and mastik tree. — 1568 Skeyne Descr. Pest 38.
Mastic comfortis the stomak, expellis fra the samin all teuch raw fleume 1597 Bk. Rates 7 b.
Inuarte custumes. … Mastik —fig. 1581-1623 James VI Poems I. 117/30.
Festnit fast uith mastic firme of holie loue —comb. 1598 Edinburgh Testaments XXXI. 350 b.
Oyle rose, oyle mastick & oyle cammamyle a1606 Dioscoridis Annot. 38.
[Lentiscus,] Anglice, ane mastik tree
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