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† squize, v. Obs.
Forms: 6 squyse, 6–7 squise, 7 squize.
[Of obscure origin: cf. squeeze v., squiss v.]
trans. To squeeze, in various senses.
Common from c 1560 to c 1620.
α1548Elyot, Presso,..to presse or thruste together, to squise. 1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1577) 146, I began againe to squise out the matter. 1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 50 Hee with his hands labored theyre knots too squise. 1614Gorges Lucan iv. 159 He..with his teeth the throate doth squise, Not where the lurking poyson lies. 1647Hexham i, To Squise out, wt-wrijven. 1648Ibid. ii, Douwen, to Presse, to Squise.
β1601Holland Pliny xviii. xxxi. I. 606 Now when they purposed to squize out the grapes, they laid certain lids or planks thereupon. 1609― Amm. Marcell. 178 Some with stones that came tumbling downe upon them, were bruised and sore squized together. 1615R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 216 To squize the poore that thou may better spend On wanton consorts. 1648Hexham ii, Tsamen douwen, to Presse, to Straine, Squize, or Wring together.
Hence † squized ppl. a., † ˈsquizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1565Cooper Thesaurus, Collisus, a squisinge, knockyng or thrustyng together. Ibid., Expressio, a streignyng; a squising out. 1582Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 89 Men say that Enceladus..here harbrouth, Dingd with this squising and massiue burthen of ætna. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. iii, Every lover admires his mistress, though..she looks like a squised cat. 1648Hexham ii, Een douwinge, a Pressing, a Squising. |