squinance

English

Alternative forms

• squinancy

Etymology

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

Noun

squinance (countable and uncountable, plural squinances)

1. (medicine, obsolete) The quinsy.
2. (obsolete) A European perennial herb (Asperula cynanchica) with narrowly linear whorled leaves, formerly thought to cure the quinsy; quincewort.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “squinance”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)