† scirrhe Obs.
Also 7 schirrh, schirr(h)e, schyrrhe, skirrh, 8 schir.
[a. F. scirre, scirrhe (16th c.; now squirre, squirrhe), ad. Gr. σκίρρος scirrhus.]
= scirrhus.
| 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. Furies 486 Phlegmons, Oedems, Schyrrhes, Erysipiles. 1608 Ibid., Index Hardest Words, Schirrhes, a kinde of hard (yet paine-lesse) swellings in the flesh. 1601 Holland Pliny xxiv. xix. II. 207 Whether the matrice haue a schirre in it and be hard or swolne. Ibid. xxx. xiv. II. 397 Hard tumors, schirrhs, and impostumations of the matrice. 1606 ― Sueton. Annot. 15 These Cancers be certain tumors or swellings,..which he called Scirrhes. 1659 Macallo Can. Physick 66 The latter declares an intemperature, that is, an inflammation, a skirrh or wind to be in those parts [liver and stomach, etc.]. 1761 tr. Störck's 2nd Ess. Hemlock 3 Fifteen schirs, the smallest of which was equal to a hen's egg. [In a footnote, the translator says he has chosen this form to avoid ‘the disagreeable hissing of the word schirusses’.] |