pasquil (paskwil)

and a. [ Those things which that railing Germane hath heaped vp in his leud pasquill . Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 585. Witty pasquils are thrown about, and the mountebanks have their stages at every corner. Evelyn , Diary, Jan., 1646. II. a . Relating to or of the nature of a lampoon or pasquinade: as, pasquil literature. pasquil (pas'kwil), v . t . [ pasquil , n .] Same as pasquinade .