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squil
† squil Oxford Univ. slang. Obs. exc. Hist. (skwɪl) Also squill. [Curtailed form of L. Esquilīnus of or pertaining to the Esquiline Hill, one of the seven hills of Rome (see quots.). The Esquiline was largely inhabited by low persons; it was used as a cemetery, ult. for paupers (cf. Hor. Sat. i. 8)....
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squill
squill (skwɪl) Also 5 sqwylle, squylle, 6 squyll, 7 squille, 6–8 squil. [ad. L. squilla, var. scilla, a. Gr. σκίλλα. So F. squille, It. squilla, Pg. esquilla, Sp. escila] 1. a. A bulb or root of the sea-onion or other related plant (see 2). Chiefly in pl.c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 195 Froting wiþ squ...
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Lolita (orca)
the multi-faceted Friends of Toki (formerly Friends of Lolita) organization includes marine mammal scientists Diana Reiss and Roger Payne, Lummi elder Squil-le-he-le
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puschkinia
puschkinia (pʊʃˈkɪnɪə) [mod.L. (J. M. F. Adams 1805, in Nova Acta Acad. Petropolitanæ XIV. 164), f. the name of Apollos Mussin-Puschkin (d. 1805), Russian chemist and plant collector + -ia1.] A small spring-flowering bulbous plant of the genus so called, belonging to the family Liliaceæ, and bearing...
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squib
▪ I. squib, n. (skwɪb) Forms: 6 squyb(e, sqwybe (skwybe, skuybe, scuibe, skybb), 7 squybb, 6–7 squibb(e (7 sqib, squip), 6– squib. [Of obscure origin; perh. intended as imitative of an explosive sound.] 1. a. A common species of firework, in which the burning of the composition is usually terminated...
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