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Squill

noun
1.
Bulb of the sea squill, which is sliced, dried, and used as an expectorant.
2.
Having dense spikes of small white flowers and yielding a bulb with medicinal properties.  Synonyms: sea onion, sea squill, Urginea maritima.
3.
An Old World plant of the genus Scilla having narrow basal leaves and pink or blue or white racemose flowers.  Synonym: scilla.



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"Squill" Quotes from Famous Books



... Squill of Ponder's End, "Of all the patients I attend, Whate'er their aches or ails, None ever will my fame attack." "None ever can," retorted Jack: "For dead men tell no tales" New ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 10, Issue 273, September 15, 1827 • Various
... sirs; Skin dry, and breathing difficult, and pains in epigastrium, And watchfulness or partial sleep, with dreams would strike the bravest dumb. To cure—restore the balance of exhalants and absorbents, With squill, blue-pill, and other means to ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, November 20, 1841 • Various
... respects perfectly formed, only his head was somewhat longish and out of proportion. For which reason almost all the images and statues that were made of him have the head covered with a helmet, the workmen apparently being willing not to expose him. The poets of Athens called him Schinocephalos, or squill-head, from schinos, a squill, or sea- onion. One of the comic poets, Cratinus, in the Chirons, tells ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough


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