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squench, v. Now dial.
Also 6 sqwenche, 9 squinch.
[f. quench v. with prosthetic s-.]
1. trans. To extinguish, put out (a fire, etc.). Also absol.
1535Layton in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. III. 165 The gret dynyng chambre..was sodenly fierede by sum fier⁓bronde... Asson as I hade sett men to sqwenche and to labor, I went into the Churche. 1541Paynell Catiline vii. 11 Rather wyll a womanne squenche flame in a burnynge mouthe than kepe counsayle. 16001st Pt. Contention G 2 b, London bridge is a fire. Runne to Billingsgate, and fetch pitch and flaxe and squench [1619 quench] it. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 152 One of the Factors..was blown up by a Cartrige of Pow[d]er, and squenched his Cloathes a-flame in the Ocean. 1823E. Moor Suffolk Words, Squench, to quench—fire or thirst. 1889Tennyson Owd Roä lix, I'll coom an' I'll squench the light.
2. To suppress, put an end to; to quell or stifle. rare.
1577Grange Golden Aphrod. M iv b, Our sorrowes are squenched, with pleasaunt delight. 1606Warner Alb. Eng. xv. xcvi. 384 Babel is falne, Vr-Caldick squencht, Delphos in no request. c1610Beaum. & Fl. Philaster v. i, They'l flea him, and make Church Buckets on's skin to squench rebellion. 1865Punch 20 May 200/2 Mr. Newdegate had a plan, whereof not much need be said, as it was squenched by 126 to 42. 1923U. L. Silberrad Let. Jean Armiter iv. 100 You are not easily squenching Art, with a capital A, when it is once fairly talking.
3. To satisfy (the appetite, etc.); to slake (one's thirst).
1598T. Bastard Chrestoleros (1880) 53 Whome all the worlde which late they stood vpon Could not content nor squench their appetites. 1803M. Charlton Wife & Mistress IV. 50 Forbidding her a dish of tea to squinch her thirst. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop lviii, I wouldn't have taken much..—only enough to squench my hunger. 1876–in various dial. glossaries.
4. To slake (lime).
1643J. Steer tr. Exp. Chyrurg. vi. 24 Water, wherein Lime hath been squenched, is good for the same purpose.
5. intr. To become extinguished.
1643J. Steer tr. Exp. Chyrurg. v. 14 Coals doe quickly squench if they are scattered about.
Hence ˈsquencher, that which quenches.
1871Black in W. Reid Biogr. (1902) iii. 95 If I had merely taken a squencher at Simpson's in Oxford Street. 1894Heslop Northumberland Gloss. 682 Squinsher, an extinguisher for a candle. |