squinance

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From French esquinancie, from Old French squinance, esquinance. See quinsy.

Noun

squinance (countable and uncountable, plural squinances)

  1. (medicine, obsolete) The quinsy.
    • 1642, Auger Ferrier, A learned astronomical discourse of the judgement of ..., page 60:
      […] Squinances, & other sicknesses of the neck.
    • 1655, Waterman: the Sea-mans Almanack and Prognostication for the ...:
      […] ring-worms, scabs, squinances, fluxes, and the like […]
    • 1662, Jan Baptist van Helmont, Oriatrike, Or, Physick Refined, page 627:
      As also in Squinances, the Toothach [sic], and elsewhere, is oftentimes easie to be seen, especially if by a singular adulterous Allurement, the Latex be derived unto any certain part: […]
  2. (obsolete) A European perennial herb (Asperula cynanchica) with narrowly linear whorled leaves, formerly thought to cure the quinsy
    Synonyms: quincewort, squinancywort

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