Usually means: Pus-filled swelling; severe tonsillitis.
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  2. quinsy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. quinsy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  8. quinsy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. quinsy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  13. Quinsy (disambiguation), Quinsy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Quinsy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. quinsy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  17. Quinsy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. quinsy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Quinsy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. quinsy: FreeDictionary.org
  21. quinsy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. quinsy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  6. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  7. Quinsy: Drug Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (quinsy)

noun:  (medicine) A peritonsillar abscess; a painful pus-filled inflammation or abscess of the tonsils and surrounding tissues, usually a complication of tonsillitis, caused by bacterial infection and often accompanied by fever.

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