Obs. rare. Also 5 qveyse, 6 queash. [See SQUEEZE v.] To press, squeeze.
c. 1450. Bk. Hawking, in Rel. Ant., I. 302. Take mellfoyle and stamp it,… then after take al togedere and put in a lynnyn cloth, and queyse out the jus.
c. 1550. Lloyd, Treas. Health (1585), E iij. Presse the holowe ulcere, so that the rottenness may be queashed or crushed out.
1601. R. Johnson, Kingd. & Commw. (1603), 168. Their chiefest sustenance is milke dried in the sunne after the butter is queased out.
