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SQUEA'MISHLY, adv. In a fastidious manner.—Too 
palpable therefore is the modern delicacy of the writer of the 
Battle of Hastings, who thus squeamishly introduces this tale 
of Saxon perfidy: “ I, tho’ a Saxon, yet the truth will telle.” 
Warton. 
SQUEA'MISHNESS, s. Niceness; delicacy; fastidious¬ 
ness.—The thorough-paced politician must laugh at the 
squeamishness of his conscience, and read it anotherlecture. 
South. —Upon their principles they may revive the worship 
of the host of heaven ; it is but conquering a little squea¬ 
mishness of stomach.— Stilling fleet. —To administer this 
dose, fifty thousand operators, considering the squeamish¬ 
ness of some stomachs, and the peevishness of young 
children, is but reasonable. Swift. 
SQUEA'SINESS, s. Nausea; queasiness; fastidiousness. 
—A squeasiness and rising up of the heart against any mean, 
vulgar, or mechanical condition of men. Hammond. 
SQUEA'SY, adj. Queasy; nice, squeamish; fastidious; 
scrupulous.—He is as squeazy of his commendations as his 
courtesie. Bp. Baric. —In squeasy stomachs honey turns to 
gall. Dry den. 
To SQUEEZE, v. a. [cpqan, Sax.; gwasgu, Welsh, to 
squeeze, to press. So in Almorick. From ys gwasgu. 
comes the English word. See Davies and Richards. But 
the Sax. cpqan, to quash, is the preferable origin ; accord¬ 
ing to which form our word was once written: “ To squise 
or thrust together, presso.” Barret —To press; to crush 
between two bodies.—It is applied to the squeezing or 
pressing of things downwards, as in the presses for print¬ 
ing. Wilkins. —The sinking of the earth would make a con¬ 
vulsion of the air, and that crack must so shake or squeeze 
the atmosphere, as to bring down all the remaining vapours. 
Burnet. 
He reap’d the product of his laboured ground. 
And squeez'd the combs with golden liquor crown’d. 
Dryden. 
None acted mournings forc’d to show. 
Or squeeze his eyes to make the torrent flow. Dryden. 
When Florio speaks, what virgin could withstand. 
If gentle Damon did not squeeze her hand ? Pope. 
To oppress; to crush; to harass by extortion.—In a civil 
war people must expect to be crushed and squeezed toward 
the burden. L'Estrange. —To force between close bodies. 
To SQUEEZE, v. n. To act or pass, in consequence of 
compression.—A concave sphere of gold filled with water and 
soldered up, upon pressing the sphere with great force, let the 
water squeeze through it, and stand all over its outside in 
multitudes of small drops, like dew, without bursting or 
or cracking the body of the gold. Newton. —To force way 
through close bodies.—Many a public minister comes empty 
in ; but when he has crammed his guts, he is fain to squeeze 
hard before he can get off. L' Estrange. 
SQUEEZE, s. Compression ; pressure. 
A subtile artist stands with wona’rous bag, 
That bears imprison’d winds of gentler sort 
Than those that erst Laertes’ son enclos’d : 
Peaceful thy sleep; but Let the tuneful squeeze 
Of labouring elbow rouse them, out they fly 
Melodious, and with spritely accents charm. Philips. 
SQUEE'ZING, s. Act of squeezing. 
What crowds of these, impenitently bold. 
In sounds and jingling syllables grown old, 
Still run on poets, in a raging vein, 
Ev’n to the dregs and squeezings of the brain. Pope. 
To SQUELCH, or Squei.sh, v. a. [a corruption perhaps 
oisquash.] To crush. A low word. 
He has almost trod my guts out:— 
O, ’twas your luck and mine to be squelch'd. 
Beaum, and FI. 
SQUELCH, s. A flat fall on one side. 
He tore the earth which he had sav’d 
From squelch of knight, and storm’d and rav’d. Hudibras. 
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SQUIB, s. This etymology unknown. —A small pipe of 
paper filled with combustibles. 
Critics on verse, as squibs on triumphs wait 
Proclaim the glory, and augment the state. Young- 
Any sudden flash.—Dead clouds of sadness, or light squibs 
of mirth. Donne. —A lampoon ; a frequent colloquial ex¬ 
pression ; any petty fellow. Not now in use. 
Asked for their pass by every squib. 
That list at will them to revile or snib. Spenser. 
SQUILACE, a small town of Italy, in the south of the 
kingdom of Naples, in Calabria Ultra, situated on the Fave- 
lone, near the bay of Squilace. It is the see of a bishop, 
but was much injured by the earthquake of 1783. Lead is 
found in the neighbouring territory; 35 miles south-west of 
St. Severino. Lat. 39. 3. N. long. 16. 40. E. 
SQUILL, s. A plant. See Scilla. —A fish; an insect. 
SQUl'NANCY, s. [ squinanee, squinancie, Fr.; squi- 
nantia, Ital.] An inflammation in the throat; a quinsey. 
Unused. —In a squinaney there is danger of suffocation. 
Wiseman. 
SQUINT, adj. [ squinte , Dutch, oblique, transverse.] 
Looking obliquely ; looking not directly ; looking suspici¬ 
ously.—Her look is squint, with which wishly beholding 
one, she fixedly looketh upon another. Trans/, of Boc- 
calini. 
SQUINT, s. An oblique look. 
To SQUINT, v. n. To look obliquely; to look not in a 
direct line of vision.—Some can squint when they will; and 
children set upon a table with a candle behind them, both 
eyes will move outwards, to see the light, and so induce 
squinting. Bacon. 
To SQUINT, v. a. To form the eye to oblique vision.— 
This is the foul Flibertigibbet; he gives the web and the 
pin, squints the eye, and makes the harelip. Shakspeare. 
—To turn the eye obliquely.—Perkin began already to 
squint one eye upon the crown, and another upon the sanc¬ 
tuary. Bacon. 
SQUINTEYED, adj. Having the sight directed oblique. 
—He was so squint-eyed, that he seemed spitefully to look 
upon them whom he beheld. Knolles. —Indirect; oblique; 
malignant. 
This is such a false and squinteyed praise. 
Which seeming to look upwards on his glories, 
Looks down upon my fears. Denham , 
SQUINTIFE'GO, adj. Squinting. A cant word. 
The timbrel and the squintifego maid 
Of Isis awe thee; lest the gods for sin. 
Should, with a swelling dropsy, stuff thy skin. Dryden-. 
SQUINTINGLY, adv. With an oblique look. Sher¬ 
wood. 
To SQUI'NY, v. n. To look asquint. A cant word. — 
I remember thine eyes well enough: Do’st thou squiny at 
me ? Shakspeare. 
SQUIRE, s. [contraction of esquire.] A gentleman next 
in rank to a knight. 
The rest are princes, barons, knights, squires. 
And gentlemen of blood. Shakspeare. 
An attendant on a noble warrior.—Knights, squires, and 
steeds must enter on the stage. Pope. —An attendant at 
court. 
Return with her— 
I could as well be brought 
To knee his throne; and, s^wfi-e-like,,pension beg, 
To keep base life a-foot. Shakspeare. 
To SQUIRE, v. a. To attend as a squire. This is an 
ancient as well as a modern gallant word. Todd. —He 
squireth me both up and doun. Chaucer. —He [a French¬ 
man] squires her to every place she visits, either on plea¬ 
sure or business. Guthrie. 
SQUI'REHOOD, or Squi'reship, s. Rank and state 
of an esquire.—What profit hast thou reaped by this thy 
squir.eship ? Shelton. —If this should be the test of squire- 
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