Obs. Also 5–6 squynance. [See next and -ANCE. So older F. (e)squinance (16th c.). Cf. SQUINCE.] = SQUINSY.
c. 1450. Trevisa’s Barth. De P. R., VII. xxviii. (Bodl. MS.). Þere beþ þre manere squynances.
1539. Elyot, Cast. Helthe, III. vii. It helpeth squynances, or quynces in the throte.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, 272. It swageth the squinance.
1584. Cogan, Haven Health, ccxi. 188. They shall be fettered with gowtes,… strangled with Squinances [1596 Squinancies].
1730. Phil. Trans., XXXVI. 451. The first … recorded History I can find of this Operation is in the learned Anton. Musa Brasavolus,… who performed it in a desperate Squinance.
