bica

1 bica [? cf. βῖκος] , cup, beaker (measure of ale). a1256 quando aliquis ballivorum nostrorum prisam fecerit de cervisia ‥, non tenetur habere nisi primam bikam de uno obolo minus quam alibi vendita fuerit (Ch. Launceston) CalPat 1381–5 263; 1336 [payment for] bikas (Ac. Launceston) Gild Merch. II 85.

2 bica, ~us [ME bike; cf. bicarius] , nest of wild bees. b swarm. a1250 cum dimidio totius bosci de Hewode, cum niso et pannagio et byko (Mun. Davenport) Chetham Soc. Ser. 3, IX 86; a1260 in boscis et in planis, in nisis, in bikis Cart. Cockersand 691; 1277 non impedientes ipsos quo minus bicarius eorum ~as suas habere possit ubi antiquitus fieri consuevit [in foresta de Cestre] Pat 96 m. 22; 1286 furatus fuit ij bykos in bosco Edmundi Fiton Eyre Chester 12 r. 4.  b 1397 R. D. invenit j bigam apum de extrahura DL CourtR (Staffs) 230/18 m. 2.

3 bica v. wicum