tunicin (tunisin)

[ Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 609. The humours and tunicles [of the eye] are transparent, to let in colours, and therefore tinctured with none themselves. Evelyn, True Religion, I. 34. 2. Eccles., same as tunic, 3. When used in the plural it signifies both the dalmatic and the tunic. Also spelled tunacle. Where there be many Priestes, or Decons, there so many shalbe ready to help the Priest as shalbe requisite: And shall haue upon theim lykewise the vestures appointed for their ministery - that is to saye, Albes, with tunacles . Book of Common Prayer, Edw. VI., 1549 (ed. Pick ering), fol. [ci. (The Supper of the Lord).