squillitic
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squillitic (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to squills.
- 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, →OCLC:
- Squillitick vineger
- 1775, D. Midwinter, Dictionaire Oeconomique, Or, The Family Dictionary, Three Crowns in St. Paul's Chruch-Yard, Page Label: STE
- ...it's good for all Distempers proceeding from a cold Cause, and used with some Squillitick Vinegar for the Falling Sickness.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “squillitic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)