Pas"quil, v. t. [R.] See Pasquin.
Pas"quil*ant (?), n. A lampooner; a pasquiler. [R.] Coleridge.
Pas"quil*er (?), n. A lampooner. [R.] Burton.
Pas"quin (?), n. [It. pasquino a mutilated statue at Rome, set up
against the wall of the place of the Orsini; -- so called from a witty
cobbler or tailor, near whose shop the statue was dug up. On this
statue it was customary to paste satiric papers.] A lampooner; also, a
lampoon. See Pasquinade.
The Grecian wits, who satire first began, Were pleasant pasquins on
the life of man.
Dryden.