SQUABBISH, SQUABBY, adjective Thick; fat; heavy.

SQUABBLE, verb intransitive [I know not the origin of this word, but it seems to be from the root of wabble; G., to vibrate, to quake, to be sleek. See Squab.]

1. To contend for superiority; to scuffle; to struggle; as, two persons squabble in sport.

2. To contend; to wrangle; to quarrel.

3. To debate peevishly; to dispute. If there must be disputes, it is less criminal to squabble than to murder.

[Squabble is not an elegant word in any of its uses. In some of them it is low.]

SQUABBLE, noun A scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl; a petty quarrel.

SQUABBLER, noun A contentious person; a brawler.

SQUABBLING, participle present tense Scuffling; contending; wrangling.

SQUABBISH, SQUABBY adjective Thick; fat; heavy.

SQUAD, noun A company of armed men; a party learning military exercise; any small party.

SQUADRON, noun [Latin , to square; four.]

1. In its primary sense, a square or square form; and hence, a square body of troops; a body drawn up in a square. So Milton has used the word.

Those half rounding guards just met, and closing stood in squadron joind.

[This sense is probably obsolete, unless in poetry.]

2. A body of troops, infantry or cavalry, indefinite in number.

3. A division of a fleet; a detachment of ships of war, employed on a particular expedition; or one third part of a naval armament.

SQUADRONED, adjective Formed into squadrons or squares.

SQUALID, adjective [Latin , to be foul.] Foul; filthy; extremely dirty.

Uncombd his locks, and squalid his attire.

SQUALIDNESS, noun Foulness; filthiness.

SQUALL, verb intransitive To cry out; to scream or cry violently; as a woman frightened, or a child in anger or distress; a, the infant squalled.

SQUALL, noun

1. A loud scream; a harsh cry.

2. A sudden gust of violent wind.

SQUALLER, noun A screamer; one that cries loud.

SQUALLING, participle present tense Crying out harshly; screaming.

SQUALLY, adjective

1. Abounding with squalls disturbed often with sudden and violent gust of wind; as squally weather.

2. In agriculture, broken into detached pieces; interrupted by unproductive spots. [Local.]

SQUALOR, noun [Latin] Foulness; filthiness; coarseness.

SQUAMIFORM, adjective [Latin , a scale, and form.] Having the form or shape of scales.

SQUAMIGEROUS, adjective [Latin , to bear.] Bearing or having scales.

SQUAMOUS, adjective [Latin] Scaly; covered with scales; as the squamous cones of the pine.

SQUANDER, verb transitive [G., to turn.]

1. To spend lavishly or profusely; to spend prodigally; to dissipate; to waste without economy or judgment; as, to squander an estate.

They often squanderd, but they never gave.

The crime of squandering health is equal to the folly.

2. To scatter; to disperse.

Our squanderd troops he rallies.

[In this application not now used.]

SQUANDERED, participle passive Spent lavishly and without necessity or use; wasted; dissipated, as property.

SQUANDERER, noun One who spends his money prodigally, without necessity or use; a spendthrift; a prodigal; a waster; a lavisher.

SQUANDERING, participle present tense Spending lavishly; wasting.

SQUARE, adjective [Gr.]

1. Having four equal sides and four right angles; as a square room; a square figure.

2. Forming a right angle; as an instrument for striking lines square

3. Parallel; exactly suitable; true.

Shes a most triumphant lady, if report be square to her. [Unusual.]

4. Having a straight front, or a frame formed with straight lines; not curving; as a man of a square frame; a square built man.

5. That does equal justice; exact; fair; honest; as square dealing.

6. Even; leaving no balance. Let us make or leave the accounts square

Three square five square having three or five equal sides, etc.; an abusive use of square

SQUARE root, in geometry and arithmetic. The square root of a quantity or number is that which, multiplied by itself, produces the square Thus 7 is the square root of 49, for 7 times 7 = 49.

In seamens language, the yards are square when they are arranged at right angles with the mast or the keel. The yards and sails are said also to be square when they are of greater extent than usual.

SQUARE, noun

1. A figure having four equal sides and four right angles.

2. An area of four sides, with houses on each side.

The statue of Alexander VII. stands in the large square of the town.

3. The content of the side of a figure squared.

4. An instrument among mechanics by which they form right angles, or otherwise measure angles.

5. Im geometry and arithmetic, a square or square number is the product of a number multiplied by itself. Thus 64 is the square of 8, for 8 times 8 = 64.

6. Rule; regularity; exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct.

They of Galatia much more out of square

I have not kept my square [Not in use.]

7. A square body of troops; a squadron; as the brave square of war. [Not in use.]

8. A quaternion; four. [Not in use.]

9. Level; equality.

We live not on the square with such as these.

10. In astrology, quartile; the position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other.

11. Rule; conformity; accord. I shall break no squares with another for a trifle.

SQUAREs go. Let us see how the squares go, that is, how the game proceeds; a phrase taken from the game of chess, the chess board being formed with squares.

SQUARE, verb transitive

1. To form with four equal sides and four right angles.

2. To reduce to a square; to form to right angles; as, to square masons work.

3. To reduce to any given measure or standard.

4, To adjust; to regulate; to mold; to shape; as, to square our actions by the opinions of others; to square our lives by the precepts of the gospel.

5. To accommodate; to fit; as, square my trial to my strength.

6. To respect in quartile.

7. To make even, so as to leave no difference or balance; as, to square accounts; a popular phrase.

8. In arithmetic, to multiply a number by itself; as, to square the number.

9. In seamens language, to square the yards, is to place them at right angles with the mast or keel.

SQUARE, verb intransitive

1. To suit; to fit; to quadrate; to accord or agree. His opinions do not square with the doctrines of philosophers.

2. To quarrel; to go to opposite sides.

Are you such fools to square for this? [Not in use.]

SQUARENESS, noun The state of being square; as an instrument to try the squareness of work.

SQUARISH, adjective Nearly square.

SQUARROUS, adjective [Gr., scurf.] In botany, scurfy or ragged, or full of scales; rough; jagged. A squarrous calyx consists of scales very sidely divaricating; a squarrous leaf is divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it.

SQUASH, verb transitive [Latin] To crush; to beat or press into pulp or a flat mass.

SQUASH, noun

1. Someting soft an deasily crushed.

2. [Gr.] A plant of the genus Cucurbita, and its fruit; a culinary vegetable.

3. Something unripe or soft; in contempt.

This squash this gentleman.

4. A sudden fall of a heavy soft body.

5. A shock of soft bodies.

My fall was stoppd by a terrible squash [Vulgar.]

SQUAT, verb intransitive

1. To sit down upon the hams or heels; as a human being.

2. To sit close to the ground; to cower; as an animal.

3. In Massachusetts and some other states of America, to settle on anothers land without pretense of title; a practice very common in the wilderness.

SQUAT, verb transitive To bruise or make flat by a fall. [Not in use.]

SQUAT, adjective

1. Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering.

Him there they found, squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.

2. Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting.

The head of the squill insect is broad and squat

SQUAT, noun

1. The posture of one that sits on his hams, or close to the ground.

2. A sudden or crushing fall. [Not in use.]

3. A sort of mineral.

SQUATT, noun Among miners, a bed of ore extending but a little distance.

SQUATTER, noun

1. One that squats or sits close.

2. In the United States, one that settles on new land without a title.

SQUEAK, verb transitive [G., to squeak This word probably belongs to the family of quack.]

1. To utter a sharp shrill cry, usually of short duration; to cry with an acute tone, as an animal; or to make a sharp noise, as a pipe or quill, a wheel, a door and the like. Wheels squeak only when the axle tree is dry.

Who can endure to hear one of the rough old Romans, squeaking through the mouth of an eunuch?

Zoilus calls the companions of Ulysses, the squeaking pigs of Homer.

2. To break silence or secrecy for fear or pain; to speak.

SQUEAK, noun A sharp shrill sound suddenly uttered, either of the human voice or of any animal or instrument, such as a child utters in acute pain, or as pigs utter, or as is made by carriage wheels when dry, or by a pipe or reed.

SQUEAKER, noun One that utters a sharp shrill sound.

SQUEAKING, participle present tense Crying with a sharp voice; making a sharp sound; as a squeaking wheel.

SQUEAL, verb intransitive [See Squall.] To cry with a sharp shrill voice. It is used of animals only, and chiefly of swine. It agrees in sense with squeak, except that squeal denotes a more continues cry than squeak, and the latter is not limited to animals. We say, a squealing hog or pig, a squealing child; but more generally a squalling child.

SQUEALING, participle present tense Uttering a sharp shrill sound or voice; as a squealing pig.

SQUEAMISH, adjective [probably from the root of wamble.] Literally, having a stomach that is easily turned, or that readily nauseates any thing; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling improprieties; scrupulous.

Quoth he, that honors very squeamish that takes a basting for a blemish.

His muse is rustic, and perhaps too plain the men of squeamish taste to entertain.

SQUEAMISHLY, adverb IN a fastidious manner; with too much niceness.

SQUEAMISHNESS, noun Excessive niceness; vicious delicacy of taste; fastidiousness; excessive scrupulousness.

The thorough-paced politician must presently laugh at the squeamishness of his conscience.

SQUEASINESS, noun Nausea. [Not used.] [See Queasiness.]

SQUEASY, adjective Queasy; nice; squeamish; scrupulous. [Not used.] [ See Queasy.]

SQUEEZE, verb transitive

1. To press between two bodies; to press closely; as, to squeeze an orange the fingers or with an instrument; to squeeze the hand in friendship.

2. To oppress with hardships, burdens and taxes; to harass; to crush.

In a civil war, people must expect to be squeezed with the burden.

3. To hug; to embrace closely.

4. To force between close bodies; to compel or cause to pass; as, to squeeze water through felt.

To squeeze out, to force out by pressure, as a liquid.

SQUEEZE, verb intransitive

1. To press; to urge ones way; to pass by pressing; as, to squeeze hard to get through a crowd.

2. To crowd.

To squeeze through, to pass through by pressing and urging forward.

SQUEEZE, noun

1. Pressure; compression between bodies.

2. A close hug or embrace.

SQUEEZED, participle passive Pressed between bodies; compressed; oppressed.

SQUEEZING, participle present tense Pressing; compressing; crowding; oppressing.

SQUEEZING, noun

1. The act of pressing; compression; oppression.

2. That which is forced out by pressure; dregs.

The dregs and squeezings of the brain.

SQUELCH, SQUELSH, verb transitive To crush. [A low word and not used.]

SQUELCH, SQUELSH verb transitive To crush. [A low word and not used.]

SQUELCH, noun A heavy fall. [Low and not used.]

SQUIB, noun [This word probably belongs to the family of whip; denoting that which is thrown.]

1. A little pipe or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter and sent into the air, burning and bursting with a crack; a cracker.

Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze.

The making and selling of squibs is punishable.

2. A sarcastic speech or little censorious writing published; a petty lampoon.

3. A pretty fellow. [Not in use.]

The squibs, in the common phrase, are called libellers.

SQUIB, verb intransitive To throw squibs; to utter sarcastic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, two members of a society squib a little in debate. [Colloquial.]

SQUIBBING, participle present tense Throwing squibs or severe reflections.

SQUILL, noun [Latin , a squill a lobster or prawn.]

1. A plant of the genus Scilla. It has a large acrid bulbous root like an onion, which is used in medicine.

2. A fish, or rather a crustaceous animal, of the genus Cancer.

3. An insect, called squill insect form its resemblance to the fish, having a long body covered with a crust, the head broad and squat.

SQUINANCY, noun The quinsy, which see. [Squinancy is not used.]

SQUINT, adjective

1. Looking obliquely; having the optic axes directed to different objects.

2. Looking with suspicion.

SQUINT, verb intransitive

1. To see obliquely.

Some can squint when they will.

2. To have the axes of the eyes directed to different objects.

3. To slope; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.

SQUINT, verb transitive

1. To turn the eye to an oblique position; to look indirectly; as, to squint an eye.

2. To form the eye to oblique vision.

He gives the web and the pin, squints the eye, and make the hare-lip.

SQUINTIFEGO, noun Squinting. [A cant word and not to be used.]

SQUINTING, participle present tense Seeing or looking obliquely; looking by side glances.

SQUINTING, noun The act or habit of looking obliquely.

SQUINTINGLY, adverb With an oblique look; by side glances.

SQUINY, verb intransitive To look squint. [A cant word not to be used.]

SQUIR, verb transitive To throw; to thrust; to drive.

SQUIRE, noun [a popular contraction of esquire. See Esquire.]

1. In Great Britain, the title of a gentleman next in rank to a knight.

2. In Great Britain, an attendant on a noble warrior.

3. An attendant at court.

4. In the United States, the title of magistrates and lawyers. In New-England, it is particularly given to justices of the peace and judges.

5. The title customarily given to gentlemen.

SQUIRE, verb transitive

1. To attend as a squire

2. In colloquial language, to attend as a beau or gallant for aid and protection; as, to squire a lady to the gardens.

SQUIREHOOD, SQUIRESHIP, noun The rank and state of a squire.

SQUIRELY, adjective Becoming a squire.

SQUIREHOOD, SQUIRESHIP noun The rank and state of a squire.

SQUIRREL, noun [Latin , Gr., shade, and tail.] A small quadruped of the genus Sciurus, order of Glires, and class Mammalia. The squirrel has two cutting teeth in each jaw, four toes on the fore feet, and five on the hind feet. Several species are enumerated. Among these are the gray, the red, and the black squirrel These animals are remarkably nimble, running up tress and leaping from branch to branch with surprising agility. They subsist on nuts, of which they lay up a store for winter, some of them in hollow trees, others in the earth. Their flesh is delicate food.

SQUIRREL HUNT, noun In America, the hunting and shooting of squirrels by a company of men.

SQUIRT, verb transitive To eject or drive out of a narrow pipe or orifice, in a stream; as, to squirt water.

SQUIRT, verb intransitive To throw out words; to let fly. [Not in use.]

SQUIRT, noun

1. An instrument with which a liquid is ejected in a stream with force.

2. A small quick stream.

SQUIRTER, noun One that squirts. [This word in all its forms, is vulgar.]

Squirting cucumber, a sort of wild cucumber, so called from the sudden bursting of its capsules when ripe; the Momordica elaterium.