in the United States of America. 523 
To SQUALE ; tothrowa stick, or other thing, with violence and in such a man- 
ner that it skims along near the ground. ew England. It is frovincial in 
England :. “ To sguale; to throw a stick, as atacock. West (of England].” 
Grose’s Prov. Gloss. 
To SQUAT; to squeeze or press. Ex. The boy has sywat his finger. Used 
by the vulgarin New England. It isan English provincial word: “ To 
squat; to bruise or make flat by letting fall. South.” Grose’s Prov. Gloss. 
The dictionaries have to syuash, in the same sense. 
SQUATTERS. A cant name in New England for those people who enter up- 
on new lands and cultivate them without permission of the owners. “ The 
Jarge proprietor.....upon visiting his lands, finds his timber cut down and 
sold, and crops growing, houses built, and possession taken by a race of men 
{the settlers and /wmberers) who, in this view, are called sguatters.” Ken- 
.  dall’s Trav. vol. iii. p. 160. 
SQUAW ; an Indian woman. “The men make the poor sguaws, their wives, 
do all the drudgery for them.” John Dunton’s Journal, in the Collections 
of the Massachusetts Historicad Society, vol. ii. p. 114. Wew Series. 
“Squaws; woman: Squaws-suck ; women.” Roger Williams's Key into 
the language of the Indians of New England ; frublished in the Collec, Mas- 
“eas Hiat Society, vo). iii. p-208... 2 ee 
To SQUIGGLE ; to move about like an ‘el teaveritae’ sare of New Eng. 
fand, but only in very familiar conversation. It is often used figuratively 
in speaking of a man, who evades a bargain, as an eel eludes the grasp. 
Ido not find this word in any of the dictionaries, or glossaries, 
To SQUIRM ; to move about like an eel. Wew England. This is an English. 
frrovincial word : “ To move very nimbly about, after the manner of an eel. 
Itis spoken ofaneel.” Ray's South and East Country words,and Grose’s 
Prov. Gioss. It is innone of the dictionaries except Bailey’s (octavo edi- 
tion) and .Ash’s, in the latter of which it is erroneously printed sguirn. It 
is never used here except in the most familiar conversation. 
STAGE; astage-coach. x. I rode in the stage s the stage is gone, &e. In 
England they never use the word stage by itself, but say, either the coach, 
or the stage-coach. We say, the mail-stage; the English say, the mail- 
coach. The expression is analogous to fost-coach, host-chaise, &e.. 
STAGING ; scaffolding. Used in New England, and, I believe, in other parts 
of the United States. 
