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▪ I. ‖ sicca1 Anglo-Indian.|ˈsɪkə|
Also 7 secau, seccawe, siccau, sickaw, 9 sikka.
[a. Pers. (Arab.) sikkah a die for coining, the impression on money.]
1. sicca rupee (also † rupee sicca), originally, a newly-coined rupee, accepted at a higher value than those worn by use; latterly, a rupee coined under the Government of Bengal from 1793, and legally current till 1836, of a greater weight than the Company's rupee.
1619in W. Foster Eng. Factories in India (1906) I. 113 Wherein wee have observed your request of rupees secaus coorah. 1620Ibid. 182 In the exchange of rupees secaus for hundies. 1683in Yule & Burnell Hobson-Jobson 633/1 Having received 25,000 Rupees Siccas for Rajamaul. 1776Trial of Nundocomar 24/1 One lack of sicca haulee Banaris rupees. 1777Richardson Pers. Dict. I. 1033 A sicca rupee, of full standard weight. 1806T. Maurice Ind. Antiq. 246 The gross amount of its revenue is stated at 54,47,985,13 sicca-rupees. 1859Lang Wand. India 177 ‘You shall, in future, receive it in sicca rupees’, said the Lieutenant.
b. ellipt. = prec.
1757in Scrafton Indostan (1770) 68 The Company shall be allowed..to coin siccas, both of gold and silver, of equal fineness with those of Muxadavad. 1763Ann. Reg., St. Papers (1764) 191, I will cause the rupees coined in Calcutta to pass respect equal to the siccas of Morshedabad. 1886Yule & Burnell Hobson-Jobson 632/2 This rupee, which is the sicca of more recent monetary history, weighed 192 grs. troy, and then contained 176·13 grs. of pure silver.
2. sicca weight: (see quot. 1833).
1833India Regulation (Y.), The use of the sicca weight of 179·666 grains,..being in fact the weight of the Moorshedabad rupee of the old standard,..shall be discontinued. 1850Directions Rev. Off. N.W. Prov. 224 The liquor..is liable to a fixed duty per gallon of 304 Sicca Weight, on being removed from the enclosure.
▪ II. sicca2 Path.|ˈsɪkə|
[ellipt. for mod.L. keratoconjunctivitis sicca.]
The symptom of reduced or no lachrymation, with consequent dryness and inflammation of the conjunctiva, characteristic of Sjögren's syndrome; used attrib. as sicca syndrome to designate the occurrence of this symptom in the absence of rheumatoid arthritis.
1938Acta Ophthalmologica XVI. 176 (heading) The initial stage of glandular changes in the sicca syndrome. 1949Ibid. XXVII. Suppl. 33. 1 (heading) Kerato⁓conjunctivitis sicca and the sicca syndrome. Ibid. 9 The bulk of the sicca patients in my material are rheumatics. 1967Amer. Jrnl. Med. XLIII. 50/1 Sjögren's syndrome is characterized clinically by dryness of the conjunctiva and mucous membranes (sicca syndrome), and by frequent episodes of salivary and lacrimal gland enlargement. 1977Proc. R. Soc. Med. LXX. 483/2 In the ‘sicca’ or Sjogren syndrome, Patey & Thackray (1955) have described lymphoid tissue in and around intralobar ducts which breaches the walls and allows radiopaque dye to escape during sialography, causing ‘punctate sialectasis’. |