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† scirrhe Obs.
Also 7 schirrh, schirr(h)e, schyrrhe, skirrh, 8 schir.
[a. F. scirre, scirrhe (16th c.; now squirre, squirrhe), ad. Gr. σκίρρος scirrhus.]
= scirrhus.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. Furies 486 Phlegmons, Oedems, Schyrrhes, Erysipiles. 1608Ibid., Index Hardest Words, Schirrhes, a kinde of hard (yet paine-lesse) swellings in the flesh. 1601Holland Pliny xxiv. xix. II. 207 Whether the matrice haue a schirre in it and be hard or swolne. Ibid. xxx. xiv. II. 397 Hard tumors, schirrhs, and impostumations of the matrice. 1606― Sueton. Annot. 15 These Cancers be certain tumors or swellings,..which he called Scirrhes. 1659Macallo Can. Physick 66 The latter declares an intemperature, that is, an inflammation, a skirrh or wind to be in those parts [liver and stomach, etc.]. 1761tr. Störck's 2nd Ess. Hemlock 3 Fifteen schirs, the smallest of which was equal to a hen's egg. [In a footnote, the translator says he has chosen this form to avoid ‘the disagreeable hissing of the word schirusses’.] |