▪ I. † quease, v.1 Obs. rare.
Also 5 qveyse, 6 queash.
[See squeeze v.]
To press, squeeze.
| c 1450 Bk. Hawking in Rel. Ant. I. 302 Take mellfoyle and stamp it..then after take al togedere, and put in a lynnyn cloth, and qveyse out the jus. c 1550 Lloyd Treas. Health (1585) E iij, Presse the holowe ulcere, so that the rottenness may be queashed or crushed out. 1601 R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 168 Their chiefest sustenance is milke dried in the sunne after the butter is queased out. |
▪ II. † quease, v.2 Obs. rare—1.
In 5 qweasse.
(Of obscure origin and meaning.)
| c 1460 Towneley Myst. xiii. 487, I may not well qweasse. Ich fote that ye trede goys thorow my nese. |