[L.] A chick-pea. Obs. (Now used only as the botanical name of the genus.)
1382. Wyclif, 2 Sam. xvii. 28. Fryed gederynge of corns, that is clepid cycer [1388 fried chichis].
1545. Raynold, Byrth Mankynde, 76. Cicer and barlye together.
1694. Westmacott, Script. Herb., 159. Red Cicers … are reckoned hot and dry.
1764. Harmer, Observ., iv. 146. [That] which he translates parched pulse, means parched Cicers.
