a. Obs. Forms: 6 squilytyke, squilītyke, squilliticke, -ike, 7–8 -ick. [ad. med.L. squilliticus, var. of scillīticus SCILLITIC a.] Made of squills; containing squill.

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1544.  Phaër, Regim. Life (1553), F viij. The pacyente must drynke euerye mornynge the syrupe of oximell squilytyke.

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1576.  G. Baker, trans. Gesner’s Jewell of Health, 88. Take of … squilliticke vinegar fower partes.

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1601.  Holland, Pliny, II. 376. A decoction of this kind of wormes sodden in squillitick vinegre.

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1610.  Barrough, Physick, III. xi. (1639), 116. Also squillitick vineger is good to soupe [in hiccup].

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1725.  Fam. Dict., s.v. Honey, The Anacardine [Honey], made of Anacardins, and the Squillitick made of Squills.

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