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sily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling improprieties. Quoth he, that honor's very squeamish That takes a basting for a blemish. Hudibras. His muse is rustic, and perhaps too plain The men of squeamish taste to entertain. Southern. So ye grow squeamish, Gods, and sniff at heaven. M. Arnold.

ity of being dainty; nicety; niceness; elegance; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness. The daintiness and niceness of our captains Hakluyt. More notorious for the daintiness of the provision . . . than for the massiveness of the dish. Hakewill. The duke exeeded in the daintiness of his leg and foot, a…

Fastidiousness; squeamishness. [Obs.] Swift.

Difficult to please; delicate to fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. Young.

Inclined to vomit; squeamish. [R.] Holland.

Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. J. H. Newman.

hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing.

To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.

To be squeamishly nice about one's food. Swift.

The state of being queasy; nausea; qualmishness; squeamishness. Shak.

Fastidious; squeamish; delicate; easily disturbed; unsettled; ticklish. " A queasy question." Shak. Some seek, when queasy conscience has its qualms. Cowper.

; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt. So ye grow squeamish, gods, and sniff at heaven. M. Arnold.

Squeamish. [Obs.]

Squeamish. [Obs.]

Queasy; nice; squeamish; fastidious; scrupulous. [Obs.] Bp. Earle.