Squirrel-hawk {Archibuteo femigineus) . 
squirrel-fish. 
2. The serrano, Diplectrum fasciculare, distin- 
guished by the segregation of the seme at the 
angle of the preoperculum into two groups. 
It is common in the West Indies, and also along 
the southern United States coast to North Caro- 
lina. 3. A local name of the piniish, Lagodoii 
rhomboides. 
squirrel-grass (skwur'el-gras), H. Same as 
squirreltail. 
squirrel-hake (skwur'el-hak), n. A gadoid 
fish, I'hi/cis chuss; the white hake. See chuss, 
hake'2, 2, and cut under Phycis. 
squirrel-hawk (skwur'el-hak), n. The ferru- 
ginous rough-legged hawk, Archibuteo ferrugi- 
neus, the larg- 
est and hand- 
somest bird 
of its genus, 
found in Cali- 
fornia and 
most other 
parts of west- 
ern North 
America from 
British Amer- 
ica south- 
ward : so 
called be- 
cause it preys 
extensively 
upon ground- 
squirrels and 
related ro- 
dents, it is 23 
inches long and 
55 in extent ; 
when adult the 
under parts are 
nearly white, 
with rich chestnut flags barred with black ; the tail is 
mostly white, clouded with silver-gray, and tinged with 
bay; and the dark upper parts are much varied with 
brownish red. 
squirrel-lemur (skwur'el-le"mer), n. A lemur 
of the subfamily Galagininse, and especially of 
the genus Galago. See cut under Galago. 
squirrel-lock (skwur'el-lok), n. Squirrel-fur 
from the under sides of the body. In gray 
squirrels it is pale-yellow, and it is used for 
lining winter gar- 
ments. 
squirrel-monkey 
(skwur'el-mung"- 
ki), n. One of 
many kinds of 
small South 
American mon- 
keys with a long, 
bushy, and non- 
prehensile tail : 
so called from 
their general as- 
pect, (a) Any mem- 
ber of the family 
Hapalidie or Midi- 
dse; a marmoset. See 
cut under Hapale. (b) 
Especially, a saimiri 
or titi of the genus 
Chrysothrix, as the 
death's-head, C. sciureits. See saimiri, and compare saguin. 
squirrel-mouse (skwur'el-mous), n. Same as 
dormouse. 
squirrel-petaurist (skwur'el-pe-ta"rist), n. A 
squirrel-phalanger. 
squirrel-phalanger (skwur'el-fa-lan"jer), . 
An Australian flying-phalanger, or petaurist, 
as Petaurus (Belideus) sciureus, a marsupial 
mammal resembling a squirrel in some re- 
spects. 
squirrel-Shrew (skwur'el-shro), n. A small 
insectivorous mammal of the family Tupaiidse, 
as a banxring or a pentail. See cuts under 
Tupaia and Ptilocercus. 
Squirreltail (skwur'el-tal), . One of several 
grasses of the genus Hordeum. (a) In Great Brit- 
ain, H. maritimum, and sometimes H. murinum, the 
wall-barley, and U. secalinum (H. pratense), the meadow- 
barley, (b) In the United States, chiefly H. jubatum, but 
in California also H. murinum, there naturalized and, as 
elsewhere, a pest, infesting wool, also the throats, etc., of 
animals, with its long barbed awns. 
squirt (skwert), v. [E. dial, also swirt; perhaps 
< LG. swirtjen, squirt. The equiv. verb squitter 
ca,n hardly be connected.] I. trans. 1. To eject 
with suddenness and force in a jet or rapid 
stream from a narrow orifice : as, to squirt 
water in one's face. 
The hard-featured miscreant . . . coolly rolled his to- 
bacco in his cheek and squirted the juice into the flre-grate. 
Scott, Guy Mannering, xxxiii. 
2. To spatter or bespatter. 
Squirrel-monkey {Chrysothrix 
sciureus). 
5883 
They know I dare 
To spurn or baffle them, or Kquirt their eyes 
With ink. B. Jonson, Apol. to Poetaster. 
II. intrans. 1. To issue suddenly in a thiu 
jet or jet-like stream, as from a syringe, or a 
narrow orifice suddenly opened; spurt. 
The oars seemed to lash the water savagely, like a con- 
nected row of swords, and the spray squirted at each vi- 
cious stroke. C. Rea.de, Hard Cash, i. 
2f. To prate; blab. [Old slang.] squirting 
Cucumber. See Ecballium. 
squirt (skwert), n. [< squirt, v.] 1. An in- 
strument with which a liquid may be ejected 
in a strong jet-like stream ; a syringe. 
His weapons are a pin to scratch and a squirt to be- 
spatter. Pope. 
2. A small jet: as, a squirt of water. 3. A 
system of motion of a fluid, where the motion 
is everywhere irrotational, and where there is 
no expansion except at isolated points. 4. 
Looseness of the bowels; diarrhea. [Low.] 
5. A small, insignificant, but self-assertive 
fellow; an upstart; a cad. [Colloq.] 6. A 
hasty start or spurt. [Colloq.] 
How different from the rash jerks and hare-brain'd 
squirts thou art wont, Tristram, to transact it with in 
other humours dropping thy pen, spurting thy ink about 
thy table and thy books. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, Ui. 28. 
7. A sea-squirt; an ascidian or tunicaiy. 
squirter (skwer'ter), n. [< squirt + -!.] One 
who or that which squirts. 0. W. Holmes, Poet 
at the Breakfast-Table, v. 
squirt-gun (skwert'guu), n, A kind of squirter 
or syringe used as a toy by boys. 
squiry (skwlr'i), . [< ME. squierie, < OF. 
esquirie, escuierie, escuyerie, escuerie, escurie, < 
escuier, a squire : see squire 1 .] If. A number 
of squires or attendants collectively. Bob. of 
Brunne, Chronicles. 2. The whole body of 
landed gentry. 
squit (skwit), n. Same as squeteague. 
sqilitch (skwich), n. A variant of quitch 2 . 
squitee (skwi-te'), n. Same as squeteague. 
SQUOb. See squab 1 , squab?. 
squorget, . [ME.; origin obscure.] A shoot. 
The squorges [tr. L. flagilla for flagetta} hie and graffes from 
the folde. Pailadius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 65. 
squuncket, n. An early spelling of skunk. 
W. Wood, 1634. 
squyncet, See squince. 
sqw-. A Middle English fashion of writing squ-. 
Sr. A contraction of senior: as, John Smith, Sr. 
Sr. In chem., the symbol for strontium. 
sradha, shraddha (srad'ha, shrad'ha), n. [Skt. 
craddha, < craddha, faith!] A Hindu funeral 
ceremony in honor of a deceased ancestor, at 
which food is offered, and gifts are made to 
Brahmans. 
SS. A Middle English form of sli. 
SS-. A Middle English fashion of writing ini- 
tial s-. 
SS. An abbreviation: (a) of saints; (b) [I. c.] 
of scilicet (common in legal documents). 
S. S. An abbreviation: (a) of Sunday-school; 
(b) of steamship, also of screw steamship. 
S. S. E. An abbreviation of south-southeast. 
ssh. A common Middle English form of sch, 
now sh. 
S. S. W. An abbreviation of south-southwest. 
St. An abbreviation: (a) [cap.] of saint; (b) 
leap, or 1. c.] of street; (c) [cap. or I. e.] of strait; 
(d) of stanza; (e) of stet; (/) of statute. 
'at, interj. Same as hist 1 . 
-St 1 . See -estl. 
-St 2 . See -esft. 
Stab (stab), v. ; pret. and pp. stabbed, ppr. stab- 
bing. [< WE.*stabben (found in the noun); per- 
haps < Ir. Gael, stob, thrust, push, stab, fix a 
stake in the ground, < stob, a stake, pointed 
iron or stick, stub; cf. staff.] I. trans. 1. To 
puncture, pierce, or wound with or as with 
a pointed weapon, especially with a knife or 
dagger. 
I fear I wrong the honourable men 
Whose daggers have stabb'd Casar. 
Shak., 3. C., iii. 2. 157. 
He was not to be torn in pieces by a mob, or stabbed in 
the back by an assassin. Macaulay, Hallam's Const. Hist. 
2. To thrust or plunge, as a pointed weapon. 
[Bare.] 
If we should recount 
Our baleful news, . . . 
Stab poniards in our flesh till all were told, 
The words would add more anguish than the wounds. 
Shak., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 1. 98. 
3. Figuratively, to pierce or penetrate; inflict 
keen or severe pain upon ; injure secretly, as 
by slander or malicious falsehoods: as, to stab 
stabilitate 
one in the back (that is, to slander one behind 
his back). 
Her silence stabbed his conscience through and through. 
Lowell, A Legend of Brittany, ii. 24. 
4. In masonry, to pick (a brick wall) so as to 
make it rough, and thereby afford a hold for 
plaster To stab armst. Seearmi. To stab out, to 
cut a continuous incision in with a sharp edge like that 
of a chisel, by making one cut in line with and in continu- 
ation of another, the first guiding the second, and so on. 
II. intraHs. 1. To :iim a blow with a dagger 
or other pointed weapon, either literally or fig- 
uratively: as, to stab at a person. 
None shall dare 
With shortened sword to xtab in closer war. 
Dryden, Pal. and Arc., iii. 509. 
2. To wound; be extremely cutting. 
She speaks poniards, and every word stabs. 
Shak., Much Ado, ii. 1. 255. 
Stab (stab), n. [< stab, v.~\ 1. A thrust or blow 
with the point of a weapon, especially a dag- 
ger. 
Hee neuer reuengeth with lesse than the stab. 
Nashe, Pierce Penilesse, p. 25. 
To fall beneath a base assassin's stab. 
Rowe, Ambitious Step-Mother, il. 2. 
2. A wound made with a sharp-pointed weapon. 
His gash'd stalls look'd like a breach in nature 
For ruin's wasteful entrance. 
Shak., Macbeth, ii. 3. 119. 
3. A wound given in the dark; a treacherous 
injury. 
This sudden stab of rancour I misdoubt. 
Shak., Rich. III., iii. 2. 89. 
Stabat Mater (sta'bat ma'ter). [So called from 
the first words of the Latin text, Stabat mater, 
'The mother (sc. of Jesus) was standing': L. 
stabat, 3d pers. sing, imperf . ind. of stare, stand 
(see stand) ; mater = Gr. fif/rrip = E. mother: see 
mother.'] 1. In the Rom. Cath. liturgy, a se- 
quence on the Virgin Mary at the crucifixion, 
written about 1300 by Jacobus de Benedictis 
(Jacopone da Todi). It has also been ascribed to 
Innocent III. and others, and was probably modeled on 
older hymns such as the staurotheotokia of the Greek 
Church. It is sung after the Epistle on the Feasts of the 
Seven Dolours of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the Friday 
before Good Friday and on the third Sunday in September. 
2. A musical setting of this sequence. Famous 
examples have been written by Palestrina, Per- 
golesi, Rossini, Dvorak, and others. 
stabber (stab'er), n. [< stab + -eri.] 1. One 
who stabs; one who murders by stabbing. 
A lurking, waylaying coward, and a stabber in the dark. 
Dennis (?), True Character of Mr. Pope (1716). 
2. A pricker, (a) Kaut., a three-cornered awl used 
by sailmakers to make holes in canvas, (b) A leather- 
workers' pegging-awl, (c) An awl used in needlework to 
make holes for eyelets. 
stabbing (stab'ing),n. [Verbal n. of stab, v.~] In 
bookbinding, the making of perforations in the 
inner margins of pamphlets for the insertion of 
binding-thread or wire. Also called, in Eng- 
land, holing. 
stabbingly (stab'ing-li), adv. In a stabbing 
manner; with intent to do an act of secret 
malice. 
Stabbing-machine (stab'ing-ma-shen"), n. In 
bookbinding, a machine for perforating the in- 
ner margins of gathered pamphlets by means 
of stout steel needles operated by a treadle. 
Stabbing-press (stab'ing-pres), . In bookbind- 
ing, same as stabbing-machine. 
stabelyt, adv. An old spelling of stably. 
Stabilify (sta-bil'i-fl), v. t. ; pret. and pp. sta- 
bilijied, ppr. stabilifying. [< L. stabilis, stead- 
fast, steady (see stable*), + facere, make.] To 
render stable, fixed, or firm ; establish. [Rare.] 
Render solid and Stabilify mankind. 
Browning. {Imp. Diet.) 
stabilimentt (sta-bil'i-ment), n. [< L. stabili- 
mentum, a stay, support, '<C stabilire, make firm, 
fix: see stable^, v.] 1. Stablishment; estab- 
lishment. [Kare.] 
If the apostolate, in the first stabUiment, was this emi- 
nency of power, then it must be so. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), II. 32. 
2. Support; prop. [Rare.] 
They serve for stabiliment, propagation, and shade. 
Derham. 
stabilisation, stabilise. See stabilization, sta- 
bilize. 
Stabilitate (sta-bil'i-tat), v. t. [< L. stabili- 
ta(t-)s, steadfastness, firmness (see stability), + 
-ate 2 .] To make stable; establish. 
The soul about it self circumgyrates 
Her various forms, and what she most doth love 
She oft before her self stabilitates. 
Dr. H. More, I'sychathanasia, I. ii. 43. 
