yce

yce (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of is (“ice”)
   • [c. 1599–1602, William Shake-speare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (First Quarto), London: Printed [by Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and Iohn Trundell, published 1603, OCLC 84758312, [Act III, scene i]:

     If thou doſt marry, Ile giue thee / This plague to thy dowry: / Be thou as chaſte as yce, as pure as ſnowe, / Thou ſhalt not ſcape calumny, to a Nunnery goe.]

• īċe

• IPA^(key): /ˈyːt͡ʃe/

From Proto-Germanic *ūkwijǭ, diminutive of *ūkwǭ. Cognate with Old High German ūcha (“toad”). Compare also Middle Low German ûtze (“frog, toad”), modern German Low German Üütse, Üüts (“toad”).

ȳċe f or m

1. toad; poisonous frog