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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Demisicle, n. [e.m.E. and ME. sicle.] A half-shekel. —1606 Birnie Kirk-b. xix. 33.
These merchants … , whose vent was to furnish the far land Iewes, being vnprouyded of a demisicle for the Tabernacles tribvte
