squab
-chick
-a young chicken before it is fully fledged.

squabash
-to crush; to quash; to squash.

squabbish
-thick; fat; heavy.

squabble
-to contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.
-to debate peevishly; to dispute.
-to disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry or are mixed and need careful readjustment;
-- said of type that has been set up.
-a scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl.

squabbled
-of squabble

squabbler
-one who squabbles; a contentious person; a brawler.

squabbling
-of squabble

squabby
-short and thick; suqabbish.

squacco
-a heron (ardea comata) found in asia, northern africa, and southern europe.

squaccos
-of squacco

squad
-a small party of men assembled for drill, inspection, or other purposes.
-hence, any small party.
-sloppy mud.

squadron
-primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a body of troops drawn up in a square.
-a body of cavarly comparising two companies or troops, and averging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred men.
-a detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer; as, the north atlantic squadron.

squadroned
-formed into squadrons, or squares.

squail
-to throw sticls at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly.

squaimous
-squeamish.

squaked
-of squeak

squali
-the suborder of elasmobranch fishes which comprises the sharks.

squalid
-dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty.

squalidity
-the quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness.

squalidly
-in a squalid manner.

squalidness
-quality or state of being squalid.

squall
-a sudden violent gust of wind often attended with rain or snow.
-to cry out; to scream or cry violently, as a woman frightened, or a child in anger or distress; as, the infant squalled.
-a loud scream; a harsh cry.

squalled
-of squall

squaller
-one who squalls; a screamer.

squalling
-of squall

squally
-abounding with squalls; disturbed often with sudden and violent gusts of wind; gusty; as, squally weather.
-interrupted by unproductive spots;
-- said of a flied of turnips or grain.
-not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty;
-- said of cloth.

squalodon
-a genus of fossil whales belonging to the phocodontia;
-- so called because their are serrated, like a shark's.

squalodont
-pertaining to squalodon.

squaloid
-like or pertaining to a shark or sharks.

squalor
-squalidness; foulness; filthness; squalidity.

squama
-a scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred consisting of epithelium.

squamaceous
-squamose.

squamae
-of squama

squamata
-a division of edentates having the body covered with large, imbricated horny scales. it includes the pangolins.

squamate
-alt. of squamated

squamated
-same as squamose.

squamduck
-the american eider duck.

squame
-a scale.
-the scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean.

squamella
-a diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea.

squamellae
-of squamella

squamellate
-furnished or covered with little scales; squamulose.

squamiform
-having the shape of a scale.

squamigerous
-bearing scales.

squamipen
-any one of a group of fishes having the dorsal and anal fins partially covered with scales.

squamipennes
-of squamipen

squamoid
-resembling a scale; also, covered with scales; scaly.

squamosal
-scalelike; squamous; as, the squamosal bone.
-of or pertaining to the squamosal bone.
-the squamous part of the temporal bone, or a bone correspondending to it, under temporal.

squamose
-alt. of squamous

squamous
-covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale.
-of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal.

squamozygomatic
-of or pertaining to both the squamosal and zygomatic bones;
-- applied to a bone, or a center of ossification, in some fetal skulls.
-a squamozygomatic bone.

squamula
-one of the little hypogynous scales found in the flowers of grasses; a lodicule.

squamulae
-of squamula

squamulate
-same as squamulose.

squamule
-same as squamula.

squamulose
-having little scales; squamellate; squamulate.

squander
-to scatter; to disperse.
-to spend lavishly or profusely; to spend prodigally or wastefully; to use without economy or judgment; to dissipate; as, to squander an estate.
-to spend lavishly; to be wasteful.
-to wander at random; to scatter.
-the act of squandering; waste.

squandered
-of squander

squanderer
-one who squanders.

squandering
-of squander

squanderingly
-in a squandering manner.

square
-the corner, or angle, of a figure.
-a parallelogram having four equal sides and four right angles.
-hence, anything which is square, or nearly so
-a square piece or fragment.
-a pane of glass.
-a certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square;
-- used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.
-one hundred superficial feet.
-an area of four sides, generally with houses on each side; sometimes, a solid block of houses; also, an open place or area for public use, as at the meeting or intersection of two or more streets.
-an instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. it is of several forms, as the t square, the carpenter's square, the try
-square., etc.
-hence, a pattern or rule.
-the product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; thus, 64 is the square of 8, for 8 / 8 = 64; the square of a + b is a2 + 2ab + b2.
-exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
-a body of troops formed in a square, esp. one formed to resist a charge of cavalry; a squadron.
-fig.: the relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
-the position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
-the act of squaring, or quarreling; a quarrel.
-the front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
-having four equal sides and four right angles; as, a square figure.
-forming a right angle; as, a square corner.
-having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame.
-exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just.
-rendering equal justice; exact; fair; honest, as square dealing.
-even; leaving no balance; as, to make or leave the accounts square.
-leaving nothing; hearty; vigorous.
-at right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon;
-- said of the yards of a square
-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
-to form with four sides and four right angles.
-to form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces; as, to square mason's work.
-to compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
-to adjust; to regulate; to mold; to shape; to fit; as, to square our actions by the opinions of others.
-to make even, so as leave no remainder of difference; to balance; as, to square accounts.
-to multiply by itself; as, to square a number or a quantity.
-to hold a quartile position respecting.
-to place at right angles with the keel; as, to square the yards.
-to accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to conform or agree; to suit; to fit.
-to go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
-to take a boxing attitude;
-- often with up, sometimes with off.

square
-rigged
-having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore
-and
-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square
-rigged vessels.

square
-toed
-having the toe square.

square
-toes
-a precise person;
-- used contemptuously or jocularly.

squared
-of square

squarely
-in a square form or manner.

squareness
-the quality of being square; as, an instrument to try the squareness of work.

squarer
-one who, or that which, squares.
-one who squares, or quarrels; a hot
-headed, contentious fellow.

squaring
-of square

squarish
-nearly square.

squarrose
-ragged or full of lose scales or projecting parts; rough; jagged
-consisting of scales widely divaricating; having scales, small leaves, or other bodies, spreading widely from the axis on which they are crowded;
-- said of a calyx or stem.
-divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf.
-having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface;
-- said of a shell.

squarroso
-dentate
-having the teeth bent out of the plane of the lamina;
-- said of a leaf.

squarrous
-squarrose.

squarrulose
-somewhat squarrose; slightly squarrose.

squash
-an american animal allied to the weasel.
-a plant and its fruit of the genus cucurbita, or gourd kind.
-to beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
-something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease.
-hence, something unripe or soft;
-- used in contempt.
-a sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.

squashed
-of squash

squasher
-one who, or that which, squashes.

squashiness
-the quality or state of being squashy, or soft.

squashing
-of squash

squashy
-easily squashed; soft.

squat
-the angel fish (squatina angelus).
-to sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages squatted near the fire.
-to sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.
-to settle on another's land without title; also, to settle on common or public lands.
-to bruise or make flat by a fall.
-sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.
-short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting.
-the posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or close to the ground.
-a sudden or crushing fall.
-a small vein of ore.
-a mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.

squaterole
-the black
-bellied plover.

squatted
-of squat

squatter
-one who squats; specifically, one who settles unlawfully upon land without a title. in the united states and australia the term is sometimes applied also to a person who settles lawfully upon government land under permission and restrictions, before acquiring title.
-see squat snipe, under squat.

squatting
-of squat

squatty
-squat; dumpy.

squaw
-a female; a woman;
-- in the language of indian tribes of the algonquin family, correlative of sannup.

squawberry
-a local name for the partridge berry; also, for the deerberry.

squawk
-to utter a shrill, abrupt scream; to squeak harshly.
-act of squawking; a harsh squeak.
-the american night heron. see under night.

squawked
-of squawk

squawking
-of squawk

squawl
-see squall.

squawroot
-a scaly parasitic plant (conopholis americana) found in oak woods in the united states;
-- called also cancer root.

squawweed
-the golden ragwort. see under ragwort.

squeak
-to utter a sharp, shrill cry, usually of short duration; to cry with an acute tone, as an animal; or, to make a sharp, disagreeable noise, as a pipe or quill, a wagon wheel, a door; to creak.
-to break silence or secrecy for fear of pain or punishment; to speak; to confess.
-a sharp, shrill, disagreeable sound suddenly utered, either of the human voice or of any animal or instrument, such as is made by carriage wheels when dry, by the soles of leather shoes, or by a pipe or reed.

squeaker
-one who, or that which, squeaks.
-the australian gray crow shrile (strepera anaphonesis);
-- so called from its note.

squeaking
-of squeak

squeakingly
-in a squeaking manner.

squeal
-to cry with a sharp, shrill, prolonged sound, as certain animals do, indicating want, displeasure, or pain.
-to turn informer; to betray a secret.
-a shrill, somewhat prolonged cry.

squealed
-of squeal

squealer
-one who, or that which, squeals.
-the european swift.
-the harlequin duck.
-the american golden plover.

squealing
-of squeal

squeamish
-having a stomach that is easily or nauseated; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling improprieties.

squeamous
-squeamish.

squeasiness
-queasiness.

squeegee
-same as squilgee.

squeeze
-to press between two bodies; to press together closely; to compress; often, to compress so as to expel juice, moisture, etc.; as, to squeeze an orange with the fingers; to squeeze the hand in friendship.
-fig.: to oppress with hardships, burdens, or taxes; to harass; to crush.
-to force, or cause to pass, by compression; often with out, through, etc.; as, to squeeze water through felt.
-to press; to urge one's way, or to pass, by pressing; to crowd;
-- often with through, into, etc.; as, to squeeze hard to get through a crowd.
-the act of one who squeezes; compression between bodies; pressure.
-a facsimile impression taken in some soft substance, as pulp, from an inscription on stone.

squeezed
-of squeeze

squeezer
-one who, or that which, squeezes; as, a lemon squeezer.
-a machine like a large pair of pliers, for shingling, or squeezing, the balls of metal when puddled;
-- used only in the plural.
-a machine of several forms for the same purpose;
-- used in the singular.

squeezing
-of squeeze
-the act of pressing; compression; oppression.
-that which is forced out by pressure; dregs.
-same as squeeze, n., 2.

squelch
-to quell; to crush; to silence or put down.
-a heavy fall, as of something flat; hence, also, a crushing reply.

squelched
-of squelch

squelching
-of squelch

squesy
-queasy; nice; squeamish; fastidious; scrupulous.

squeteague
-an american sciaenoid fish (cynoscion regalis), abundant on the atlantic coast of the united states, and much valued as a food fish. it is of a bright silvery color, with iridescent reflections. called also weakfish, squitee, chickwit, and sea trout. the spotted squeteague (c. nebulosus) of the southern united states is a similar fish, but the back and upper fins are spotted with black. it is called also spotted weakfish, and, locally, sea trout, and sea salmon.

squib
-a little pipe, or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter, to be thrown into the air while burning, so as to burst there with a crack.
-a kind of slow match or safety fuse.
-a sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a brief, witty essay.
-a writer of lampoons.
-a paltry fellow.
-to throw squibs; to utter sarcatic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, to squib a little debate.

squibbed
-of squib

squibbing
-of squib

squid
-any one of numerous species of ten
-armed cephalopods having a long, tapered body, and a caudal fin on each side; especially, any species of loligo, ommastrephes, and related genera. see calamary, decacerata, dibranchiata.
-a fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance, fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.

squier
-a square. see 1st squire.

squierie
-alt. of squiery

squiery
-a company of squires; the whole body of squires.

squiggle
-to shake and wash a fluid about in the mouth with the lips closed.
-to move about like an eel; to squirm.

squilgee
-formerly, a small swab for drying a vessel's deck; now, a kind of scraper having a blade or edge of rubber or of leather,
-- used for removing superfluous, water or other liquids, as from a vessel's deck after washing, from window panes, photographer's plates, etc.

squill
-a european bulbous liliaceous plant (urginea, formerly scilla, maritima), of acrid, expectorant, diuretic, and emetic properties used in medicine. called also sea onion.
-any bulbous plant of the genus scilla; as, the bluebell squill (s. mutans).
-a squilla.
-a mantis.

squilla
-any one of numerous stomapod crustaceans of the genus squilla and allied genera. they make burrows in mud or beneath stones on the seashore. called also mantis shrimp. see illust. under stomapoda.

squillae
-of squilla

squillas
-of squilla

squillitic
-of or pertaining to squills.

squinance
-alt. of squinancy

squinancy
-the quinsy. see quinsy.
-a european perennial herb (asperula cynanchica) with narrowly linear whorled leaves;
-- formerly thought to cure the quinsy. also called quincewort.

squinch
-a small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower;
-- called also sconce, and sconcheon.

squinsy
-see quinsy.

squint
-looking obliquely. specifically (med.), not having the optic axes coincident;
-- said of the eyes. see squint, n., 2.
-fig.: looking askance.
-to see or look obliquely, asquint, or awry, or with a furtive glance.
-to have the axes of the eyes not coincident;
-- to be cross
-eyed.
-to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
-to turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely; as, to squint an eye.
-to cause to look with noncoincident optic axes.
-the act or habit of squinting.
-a want of coincidence of the axes of the eyes; strabismus.
-same as hagioscope.

squint
-eye
-an eye that squints.

squint
-eyed
-having eyes that quint; having eyes with axes not coincident; cross
-eyed.
-looking obliquely, or asquint; malignant; as, squint
-eyed praise; squint
-eyed jealousy.

squinted
-of squint

squinter
-one who squints.

squintifego
-squinting.

squinting
-of squint
-a. & n. from squint, v.

squiny
-to squint.

squinzey
-see quinsy.

squiralty
-same as squirarchy.

squirarch
-one who belongs to the squirarchy.

squirarchy
-the gentlemen, or gentry, of a country, collectively.

squire
-a square; a measure; a rule.
-a shield
-bearer or armor
-bearer who attended a knight.
-a title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. see esquire.
-a male attendant on a great personage; also (colloq.), a devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
-a title of office and courtesy. see under esquire.
-to attend as a squire.
-to attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection; as, to squire a lady.

squireen
-one who is half squire and half farmer;
-- used humorously.

squirehood
-the rank or state of a squire; squireship.

squirely
-becoming a squire; like a squire.

squirm
-to twist about briskly with contor/ions like an eel or a worm; to wriggle; to writhe.

squirmed
-of squirm

squirming
-of squirm

squirr
-see squir.

squirrel
-any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus sciurus and several allied genera of the family sciuridae. squirrels generally have a bushy tail, large erect ears, and strong hind legs. they are commonly arboreal in their habits, but many species live in burrows.
-one of the small rollers of a carding machine which work with the large cylinder.

squirt
-to drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water.
-to be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice;
-- said of liquids.
-hence, to throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.
-an instrument out of which a liquid is ejected in a small stream with force.
-a small, quick stream; a jet.

squirted
-of squirt

squirter
-one who, or that which, squirts.

squirting
-of squirt

squiry
-the body of squires, collectively considered; squirarchy.

squitch grass
-quitch grass.

squitee
-the squeteague;
-- called also squit.

squired
-of squire

squireling
-a petty squire.

squireship
-squirehood.

squiring
-of squire