Crossword-Solution: QUINSY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Quinsy | n. | An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “QUINSY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ACUTE suppurative tonsillitis | 1 answer |
| PERITONSILLAR abscess | 1 answer |
| SUPPURATIVE tonsillitis with abscess formation | 1 answer |
| TONSILLITIS with abscess formation | 1 answer |
| Tonsilitis. | 1 answer |
| Inflammation of tonsils | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AZCEME
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eruption
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Sentences with QUINSY (5)
See Anger, n.] (Med.) Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath.
Deacon Ranney was to have taken me and provided for my temporal and spiritual wants during grandmother's absence, but at the last moment the deacon came down with one of his spells of quinsy, and no other alternative remained but to pack me off to Nashua, where my Uncle Cephas lived.
There's old Doctor Hoskins of Bath, who attended poor dear Drum in the quinsy; and poor dear old Fred Hoskins, the gouty General: I remember him as thin as a lath in the year '84, and as active as a harlequin, and in love with me--oh, how he was in love with me!" "You seem to have had a host of admirers in those days, Grandmamma?" said Lady Jane.
Whew, but it is cold! If you catch a quinsy, blame that foolish Tony of yours.” But, though he closed his eyes, he did not sleep.
Ravenswing's complaint to be a quinsy, others, on whose authority they could equally rely, had pronounced it to be a consumption.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1943–1992).