† yekth Obs.
Forms: 1 ᵹiecða, ᵹicða, ᵹihða, ᵹyhða, 3 ȝecðe, ȝeohðe, 5 ȝykthe, yeketh, ȝeght, ȝight.
[OE. ᵹiecða = OHG. jukido (MHG. jukede):—OTeut. *jukiþon-, f. juk-: see itch v.1 (The suffix occurs in other names of physical disorders, as clęweþa itch, spéowþa vomit.)]
Itching, itch.
| c 897 ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xi. 70 Se ᵹicða [Hatt. ᵹiecða] bið swiðe unsar, & se cleweða bið swiðe row. c 1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 252 Þes læcedom deah ᵹe wiþ hriefðo & ᵹicþan. c 1000 ælfric Hom. I. 86 Unaberendlic ᵹyhða ofereode ealne ðone lichaman. c 1230 Hali Meid. 9 Þat bearninde ȝecðe [v.r. ȝeohðe] of þat licomliche lust. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 538/2 Ȝykynge, or ȝykth'e [1499 P. ȝekyn or yeketh], pruritus. 14.. Medulla Gram. (Rawl. MS.), Prurigo, a scabbe a ȝeght. 14.. Medulla (Cant. Cath. MS.), Pruritus, ȝight. |