† squize, v. Obs.
Forms: 6 squyse, 6–7 squise, 7 squize.
[Of obscure origin: cf. squeeze v., squiss v.]
trans. To squeeze, in various senses.
Common from c 1560 to c 1620.
| α 1548 Elyot, Presso,..to presse or thruste together, to squise. 1574 Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1577) 146, I began againe to squise out the matter. 1582 Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 50 Hee with his hands labored theyre knots too squise. 1614 Gorges Lucan iv. 159 He..with his teeth the throate doth squise, Not where the lurking poyson lies. 1647 Hexham i, To Squise out, wt-wrijven. 1648 Ibid. ii, Douwen, to Presse, to Squise. |
| β 1601 Holland Pliny xviii. xxxi. I. 606 Now when they purposed to squize out the grapes, they laid certain lids or planks thereupon. 1609 ― Amm. Marcell. 178 Some with stones that came tumbling downe upon them, were bruised and sore squized together. 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 216 To squize the poore that thou may better spend On wanton consorts. 1648 Hexham ii, Tsamen douwen, to Presse, to Straine, Squize, or Wring together. |
Hence
† squized ppl. a.,
† ˈsquizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.| 1565 Cooper Thesaurus, Collisus, a squisinge, knockyng or thrustyng together. Ibid., Expressio, a streignyng; a squising out. 1582 Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 89 Men say that Enceladus..here harbrouth, Dingd with this squising and massiue burthen of ætna. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. iii, Every lover admires his mistress, though..she looks like a squised cat. 1648 Hexham ii, Een douwinge, a Pressing, a Squising. |