Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
squinancy , 1.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.), obsolete The quinsy. See
quinsy . - noun (Bot.) A European perennial herb (
Asperula cynanchica ) with narrowly linear whorled leaves; -- formerly thought to cure the quinsy. Also calledquincewort . - noun black currants; -- so called because used to cure the quinsy.
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- noun medicine, obsolete The
quinsy . - noun botany, obsolete A
European perennial herb (Asperula cynanchica) with narrowly linear whorled leaves, formerly thought to cure the quinsy;quincewort .
Etymologies
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French esquinancie, Old French squinance, esquinance. See quinsy.
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