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  • noun Obsolete form of physics.
  • noun Plural form of physick.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of physick.

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Examples

  • I no has problem wif maffs I wuz physicks major, is deh lack of experimental rigor that bothers me.

    TOM-TOM CAT - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

  • Thousands of plants and herbs were utilized for medicines and physicks.

    History Of Oaxaca - Pre-hispanic Era 2006

  • How dey fit what looks to be double teh amount of ratties allowd by teh laws of physicks into the sleeping space available will always be a mystery, though…

    pssst - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007

  • Hit's a won'er you ain 'been de deaf er him' fo 'I got yer wid yo' sto 'physicks en yo' real doctahs es dunno one baby f'om anur when dey meet 'im in de street.

    The Voice of the People Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

  • I reckon, ef he'd got de colic you'd have kilt 'im terreckly, you en yo' sto 'physicks en yo' real doctahs!

    The Voice of the People Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

  • Men that meet to talk of physicks or metaphysicks, or law or history, may be immediately acquainted.

    Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

  • The ingredients of the prescriptions are vile beyond belief, though, as Mather said in one of his letters, they are "powerful and parable physicks," which are two desirable qualities or attributes of any physic.

    Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • The antique tincture bottles on display along the top of one wall in Haber's evoke compounding's gilded age from a century ago, but the glass enclosure at the far end has nothing in common with that old-time physicks.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed IAN MERRINGER 2011

  • The antique tincture bottles on display along the top of one wall in Haber's evoke compounding's gilded age from a century ago, but the glass enclosure at the far end has nothing in common with that old-time physicks.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed IAN MERRINGER 2011

  • Men that meet to talk of physicks or metaphysicks, or law or history, may be immediately acquainted.

    Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767

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