a. Now rare. Also 6 vycyne, 7 vicin. [ad. L. vīcīn-us neighboring, near.] VICINAL a. 3.
a. 1513. Fabyan, Chron., VII. 312. These men … subdued ye Partyes, and many other vycyne countreys.
c. 1550. Leland, Itin. (1769), V. 2. A ii Myles a this side Montgomerie … is at River cumming owt of the vicine Hilles.
1553. in Hakluyt, Voy. (1599), I. 229. God, vnder whose mercifull hand nauigants aboue all other creatures naturally bee most nigh, and vicine.
1605. L. Hutten, Aunswere, 28. With … due regarde alwaies had, to the easines and familiarity of the Ceremonie, that it be vicine, hard at hand, and obvious, not far fetcht.
1661. Glanvill, Van. Dogm., iv. 35. The opening of other vicine passages might quickly obliterate any tracks of these.
1676. Jas. Cooke, Marrow Chirurg., IV. II. i. 715. In Ustion take heed of Vicin parts, and apply Cauteries through a Pipe.
1824. Guide to Aberystwyth, 31. The visitor of Aberystwyth … parading the Terrace Castle Ruins or the vicine hills … gives the subject but an ordinary thought.
