adv. and a. [f. SPICE sb.]

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  A.  adv. So as to smell like spices.

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c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 2443. Iosep dede hise lich … riche-like smeren, And spice-like swete smaken. Ibid., 2515. Hise liche was spice-like maked.

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  B.  adj. Resembling that of spice.

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1578.  Lyte, Dodoens, 519. The sayde leaues be of an aromaticall or spicelyke taste.

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