† squinance Obs.
Also 5–6 squynance.
[See next and -ance. So older F. (e)squinance (16th c.). Cf. squince.]
= squinsy.
| c 1450 Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. vii. xxviii. (Bodl. MS.), Þere beþ þre manere squynances. 1539 Elyot Cast. Helthe iii. vii, It helpeth squynances, or quynces in the throte. 1578 Lyte Dodoens 272 It swageth the squinance. 1584 Cogan Haven of Health ccxi. 188 They shall be fettered with gowtes,..strangled with Squinances [1596 Squinancies]. 1730 Phil. Trans. XXXVI. 451 The first..recorded History I can find of this Operation..is in the learned Anton. Musa Brasavolus,..who performed it in a desperate Squinance. |