squinance
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French esquinancie, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French squinance, esquinance. See quinsy.
Noun
squinance (countable and uncountable, plural squinances)
- (medicine, obsolete) The quinsy.
- (obsolete) A European perennial herb (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.) 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)