Definitions for sycees

sycees sy·cee

Spelling: [sahy-see]
IPA: /saɪˈsi/

Sycees is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in sycees (ceessy).

Definitions for sycees

noun

  1. fine uncoined silver in lumps of various sizes usually bearing a banker's or assayer's stamp or mark, formerly used in China as a medium of exchange.

Origin of sycees

1705-15; Chinese dial. (Guangdong) sai-sì, akin to Chinese xìsī silk floss; so called because it can be made into wire as fine as silk thread

Examples for sycees

Memorials were presented to the Emperor on the subject, and the export of sycee was prohibited.

The current coin is lumps of Chinese sycee silver of two pounds' weight each.

Repeat, word for word, as closely as you can remember, all that was told you by the sycee Rung.

Then we got sycee silver, which was prohibited for exportation.

Upon the bodies of many of the slain, pieces of sycee silver were found, as had been the case at Ningpo, a few days before.

It would be possible to change them for copper cash or sycee silver, but that would involve delay and perhaps trouble.

The silver used in these exchanges is called sycee silver, and is apparently of any shape or size.

Word Value for sycees
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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