Definitions for Squill

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Spelling: [skwil]
IPA: /skwɪl/

Squill is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in Squill (illqsu).

Definitions for Squill

noun

  1. the bulb of the sea onion, Urginea maritima, of the lily family, cut into thin slices and dried, and used in medicine chiefly as an expectorant.
  2. the plant itself.
  3. any related plant of the genus Scilla.

Origin of Squill

1350-1400; Middle English Latin squilla, variant of scilla Greek skílla

Examples for Squill

squill, being in a meditative mood, had fallen behind his comrades.

Extract of squill, while it augments transpiration, promotes the urinary secretion, and facilitates expectoration.

Blaze, Stubbs, and squill chanced to be out that day along the shore.

The mummies of Egyptian women often hold the squill in one hand, probably as an emblem of generation.

There was also a tail to the fish—which squill called a “divil-fish”—shaped like a fin.

These plants are known to the public as Meerzwiebel (sea onion or squill), but they are only related to that plant in appearance.

In small doses, squill acts as a stimulating expectorant and diuretic; in larger ones, as an emetic and purgative.

When this prescription had produced a little ptyalism the mercurial was omitted and the squill and digitalis continued.

But they are a species of squill, and this name was given them by the Romans.

It is not improbable that the squill might have some share in this cure.

Word Value for Squill
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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