v. Obs. rare. Also 6 cuinse, kinse. [Origin obscure. The form cuinse, cited by Halliwell from the Bk. of Hunting, 1586, may be a misprint: the Bk. St. Albans gives ‘A Plouer Mynsed’ as the proper term.] To cut, carve.
1598. [see KINSING].
1598. Bp. Hall, Sat., IV. xi. 44. Good man! him list not spend his idle meales In quinsing plouers, or in wining Quailes.
[1863. Sala, Capt. Dangerous, III. i. 6. I … succeeded in Quincing his face as neatly as a housewife would slice Fruit for a Devonshire Squab Pie.]
