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L. tifl-, to), + cnactare (ML. "coactiare), con- squashiness (skwosh'i-nes), n. The state of 
strain, force, r'voq. of cogere (pp. coactus), con- being squashy, soft, or miry. [Colloq.j 
strain, force: see cogent. Cf. quash*, and see Give a trifleof strength and austerity to the squashiness 
squat*, quat 1 .] I. trans. To crush; smash; of our friend's poetry. 
beat or press into pulp or a flat mass. [Colloq.] Lander, Imag. Conv., Southey and Forson, ii. 
One of the reapers, approaching, . . . made me appre- squash-melon (skwosh'mel // on), n. Same as 
hencl that with the next step I should be squashed to death squash 2 
SUM, Gulliver's Travels, ii. i. S quash-vine (skwosh'vln), H. The squash. See 
II. intrant, lo splash; make a splashing squash 9 . 
sound. [Prov. or colloq.] squashy (skwosh'i), a. [< squash* + -yi.] Soft 
Wet through and through ; with herfeet squelching and and wet; miry; muddy; pulpy; mushy; watery 
squashing in her shoes whenever she moved. George EUot,lSl. Gilfil, xxi. [Colloq.] 
^e,,Uardl,mes,xi. ^gl (skwot), r. ; pret, and pp. squatted or 
squash 1 (skwosh), n. [< squash*, v .] 1. Some- squat,ppr. squatting. [< ME. fovattmt, Wttotiwi 
thing soft and easily crushed ; something un- < OF. esquatir, press down, lay flat, crush, < as- 
npe and soft; especially, an unripe pea-pod. L. ex _) + <]lt< , t ir, quattir, press down, = It. 
Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a quattare, lie close, squat, < L. coactare, press 
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squattle 
much like the golden plover (see plover) in plumage, in 
changes of plumage with season, and in habits ; but it is 
boy ; as a squash is before 'tis a peascod. 
Shale., T. N., i. 5. 166. 
2. Something that has been crushed into a 
soft mass. 
It seemed churlish to pass him by without a sign, espe- 
cially as he took on* his squash of a hat to me. 
Harper's May., LXXVIII. 80. 
3. A sudden fall of a heavy soft body ; a shock 
of soft bodies. 
My fall was stopped by a terrible squash, that sounded 
louder to my ears than the cataract of Niagara. 
Su-ift, Gulliver's Travels, ii. 7. 
Lemon squash. Bee lemon-squash. 
squash 2 (skwosh), . [An abbr. of squanter- 
Swiss or Black -bellied Plover (Squatarola helvetica). 
in full plumage. 
together, constrain, force : see quat*, and cf. 
squash*.] I. trans. 1. To lay flat; flatten; 
crush ; bruise. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] 
The foundementis of hillis ben togidir srnyten and squat. 
Ki. [2 Sam.] xxii.8. squatarole, squaterole (strwat'a-rol. -e-rol), . 
(X Squatarola.] The gray or Swiss plover, 
Middletm, No Wit like a Woman's, i. 3. Squatarola helvetica. 
Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.]-3. Squatina (skwat/i-na),*. [NL. (Dumeril, 1806, 
larger and stouter, and may be distinguished at a glance 
by the small though evident hind toe, no trace of which 
appears in any species of Charadrius proper. 
2. To compress. 
To make quiet. Compare squatting-pilt.[PTOv. 
Eng.] 4f. To quash; annul. 
King Edward the second [said] . . . that although lawes 
were squatted in warre, yet notwithstanding they ought 
squash, squonter-squash, < Amer. Ind. aslcuta- to be reuiued in peace. 
squash; asquash, pi. of asq, raw, green.] The S(a '> t '* u '.De8crip.ofIreland,iii.(Holinshed'sChron.,I.). 
fruit of an annual plant of the gourd kind, be- 5. To put or set on the buttocks ; cause to 
longing to one of several species of the genus cower or crouch close to the ground: used re- 
Cucurbita; also, the plant itself. The very uumer- flexively. 
ous and divergent varieties of the cultivated squash are re- 
duced by good authority to three species C. maxima, the 
great or winter squash ; C. Pepo, including the pumpkin 
and also a large part of the ordinary squashes ; and C. mos- 
chata, the musky, China, or Barbary squash. The last has 
a club-shaped, pear-shaped, or long cylindrical fruit with 
a glaucous-whitish surface. The other squashes may for 
practical purposes be divided into summer and winter 
kinds. Among the latter is the C. maxima, of which the 
fruit is spheroidal in form and often of great size, some- 
times weighing 240 pounds. A variety of this is the crowned 
or turban squash, whose fruit has a circular projection at 
the top, the mark of the adherent calyx-tube. Other 
winter squashes are of moderate size, and commonly either 
narrowed toward the base into a neck which in the " crook- 
necks " is curved to one side, or egg-shaped and pointed 
at the ends, as in the (Boston) marrow, long a standard in 
America, or the still better Hubbard squash. The winter 
squash can be preserved through the season. The sum- 
mer squash has a very short vine, hence sometimes called 
bush-squash. Its fruit is smaller, and is either a crook- 
neck or depressed in form, somewhat hemispherical with 
a scalloped border (seesimlin) ; it is colored yellow, white, 
green, or green and white. Squashes are more grown in 
America than elsewhere, but also, especially the winter 
He ... then squatted himself down, with his legs twist- 
ed under him. 
Manryat, Pacha of Many Tales, the Water-Carrier. 
H. intrans. 1. To sit close to the ground; 
crouch; cower: said of animals; sit down upon 
the buttocks with the knees drawn up or with 
after Aldrovandi), < L. Squatina, a skate, dim. 
< squatus, a skate, an angel-fish.] The only 
genus of Squatinidee, represented in most seas. 
S. angelus is the angel-shark, angel-fish, monk- 
fish, or squat. See cuts under angel-fish and 
pterygium. 
Jqua'tinldae (skwa-tin'i-de), n.pl. [NL.,< Squa- 
tina + -idss.] A family of somewhat ray-like 
anarthrous sharks, represented by the genus 
Squatina. These fishes inhabit most seas, and are of 
singular aspect, having a broad flat body with very large 
horizontal pectoral flns separated from the body by a nar- 
rowed part, two small dorsals, large ventrals, a small cau- 
dal, and no anal. The body is depressed, the mouth is 
anterior, and the teeth are conical. The family is also 
called Jihinidx, and the suborder Jihinx is represented 
"- "-'- family alone. 
The hare now, after having squatted two or three times, 
and been put up again as often, came still nearer. 
BudyeU, Spectator, No. 116. 
2. To settle on land, especially public or new 
Yankees of Connecticut, those swapping, bar- 
gaining, squatting enemies of the Manhattoes, made a -A,,.,* 7J. * - \ c 
daring inroad into this neighborhood, and founded a col- Squat-snipe (skwot snip), . Same as CT 
ony called Westchester. Irving, Wolfert's Roost, i. Squat-tag (skwot tag), n. A game of t 
3. To settle by the stern, as a boat. 
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squashes, in continental Europe, and generally in tern- squat 1 (skwot), a. [Pp. of squat*. .] 1. Flat- 
n rt r,n tmi ,i im .,~, T- a, ^^ -_ 6 ned; hence, short and thick, like the figure 
of an animal squatting. 
perate and tropical climates, "in Great Britain the only 
ordinary squash is the vegetable marrow (see marrow^), or 
succade gourd. The summer squash is eaten before ma- 
turity, prepared by boiling. The winter squash is boiled 
or roasted ; in France and the East it is largely used in 
soups and ragouts, in America often made into pies. It is 
also used as food for animals. 
Askutasquash, their Vine-apple, Which the English 
from them, call Squashes. 
Jtoyer Willia>ns, Key to Lang, of America (ed. 1043), xvi. 
[(Rhode Isl. Soc. Coll.). 
Squashes, but more truly squontersquashes ; a kind of 
mellon, or rather gourd. 
Josselyn, N. E. Rarities (1672), Amer. Antiq. Soc., IV. 198. 
squash 3 (skwosh). . [Abbr. of musquash (like 
coon from racoon, or possum from opossum).] 
The musquash or muskrat, Fiber zibethicus. 
The smell of our weasels, and ermines, and polecats is 
fragrance itself when compared to that of the squash and 
the skink. Goldsmith, Hist. Earth (ed. 1822), III. 94. 
squash-beetle (skwosh'be"tl), n. The striped 
cucumber-beetle, Diabrotica vittata, or a similar 
species, which feeds upon the squash and re- 
lated plants. See DiabroHca. 
squash-borer (skwosh'bor"er), n. The larva 
of an segerian or sesiid moth, Trochilium cucur- 
bitse, which bores the stems of squashes in the 
United States. 
squash-bug (skwosh'bug), n. An ill-smelling 
heteropterous insect, Anasa 
tristis, of the family Coreidie, 
found commonly on the squash 
and other cucufbitaceous 
plants in North America. There 
are one or two annual generations 
and the bug hibernates as an adult. 
Throughout its life it feeds upon 
the leaves of these plants, and is a 
noted pest 
squasher (skwosh'er), n. [< 
squash* + -er*.] One who or 
that which squashes. [Col- 
loq.] 
squash-gourd (skwosh ' gord), n. Same as 
squash 2 . 
A squat figure, a harsh, parrot-like voice, and a system- 
atically high head-dress. 
Otorge Eliot, Daniel Deronda, v. 
2. Sitting close to the ground ; crouched; cow- 
ering ; sitting on the buttocks with the knees 
drawn up or with the legs crossed. 
Him there they found, 
Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve. 
Milton, P. I_, iv. 800. 
n. [< squat*, v. ; in defs. 3 and 
It. A bruise caused by a fall. 
Bruises, squats, and falls. Herbert. (Johnson.) 
Neer or at the salt-worke there growes a plant they call 
squatmore, and hath wonderfull vertue for a squatt ; it 
hath a roote like a little carrat ; I doe not heare it is taken 
notice of by any herbalist. 
Aubrey's MS. Wilts, p. 127. (Hallimll.) 
In our Western language squat is a bruise. 
Aubrey's Wilts, Royal Soc. MS., p. 127. (HaUiwett.) 
2. The posture of one who or that which squats. 
One [hare] runneth so fast you will neuer catch hir, the 
other is so at the squat you can neuer flnde hir. 
Lyly, Euphues and his England, p. 421. 
And every child hates Shylock, though his soul 
Still sits at squat, and peeps not from its hole. 
Pope, Moral Essays, i. 66. 
3. A short, stout person. [Colloq.] 4. A 
small mass or bunch of ore in a vein. [Corn- 
wall, Eng.] 
squat 2 (skwot), v. [< Dan. sqratte, splash, 
spurt: see squander, swaft, swatter.] To splash. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
squat 3 (skwot), re. [< NL. Squatina.^ The 
angel-fish, Squatina angelus. 
+ -oid.] I. a. Of or pertaining to the Squa- 
tinidse. 
II. n. A shark of the family Squatinida. 
iquatmoret, . [Appar. < squat*, n., a bruise, 
+ more 2 , a plant.] The horned poppy, Glau- 
cium flavum ( G. luteum). See the second quota- 
tion under squat*, n., 1. Britten and Holland. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
krielcer. 
tag in 
a~piayer cannot be touched or tagged 
while squatting. 
squattage (skwot'aj), . [< squat* + -age.] 
Land leased from the government for a term of 
years. [Australia.] 
squatter^ (skwot'er), n. [< squat* + -er*.] 1. 
One who or that which squats. 2. One who 
settles on new land, particularly on public 
land, without a title. [U. S.] 
The place where we made fast was a wooding station, 
owned by what is called a Squatter, a person who, without 
any title to the land, or leave asked or granted, squats him- 
self down and declares himself the lord and master of the 
soil for the time being. B. Hall, Travels in N. A., II. 297. 
Hence 3. One who or that which assumes 
domiciliary rights without a title. 
The country people disliked the strangers, suspected the 
traders, detested the heretics, and abhorred the sacrile- 
gious squatters in the site of pristine piety and charity. 
ft. W. Dixon, Hist. Church of Eng., xvii. 
4. One who obtains from the government a 
right of pasturage on moderate terms; also, 
any stock-owner. [Australia.] 
Squatters, men who rent vast tracts of land from Govern- 
ment for the depasturing of their flocks, at an almost nom- 
inal sum, subject to a tax of so much a head on their sheep 
and cattle. H. Kingslcy, Hillyars and Burtons, xlviii. 
5. In ornith., same as krieker Squatter sover- 
eignty. See popular sovereignty, under popular. 
Squatter 2 (skwot'er), . i. [A var. of swatter, 
rreq. of swat: see swat 2 , and cf. squander, 
squat" 2 .] To plunge into or through water. 
[Scotch and prov. Eng.] 
Amang the springs, 
Awa' ye squatter'd, like a drake, 
On whistling wings. 
Burns, Address to the De'il. 
A little callow gosling squattering out of bounds. 
Charlotte Bronte, Villette, xxv. 
squatting-pill (skwot'ing-pil), n. An opiate 
Squash-bug (Ana- 
sa tristis), natural 
size. 
Squatarola (skwa-tar'6-laj, n. [NL. (Cuvier, P lU ! a P" 1 adapted to squat or quiet a patient. 
1817), < It. dial'. (Venetian) squatarola, the [ Prov - En g-] 
Swiss plover.] A genus of true plovers which squattle (skwot'l), v. i. [Freq. of squafl.] To 
have four toes. The only species is S. helvetica, for- settle down ' squat. [Scotch.] 
merly fri,tga squatarola, the common Swiss, gray, black- Swith, in some beggar's haffet squatOe; 
Hied, or bullhead plover, found in most parts of the There ye may creep, and sprawl, and sprattle. 
world, and having fifty or more technical names. It is Burns, To a Louse. 
