A tern.

The line which forms the communication between the steering wheel and the telltale.

A kick; a blow with the foot.

A channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.

One who spurns.

Wearing spurs; furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs.

One who spurs.

See Spurry.

One whose occupation is to make spurs.

An annual herb (Spergula arvensis) with whorled filiform leaves, sometimes grown in Europe for fodder.

To make a sudden and violent exertion, as in an emergency.

To spurt or shoot in a scattering manner.

A bridle path.

An annular reenforce, to strengthen a place where a hole is made.

The act of spitting; expectoration.

Inclined to spit; spitting much.

To dispute; to discuss.

Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.

One who sputters.

That which is expectorated; a salival discharge; spittle; saliva.

One who keeps a constant watch of the conduct of others.

A boat sent to make discoveries and bring intelligence.

A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.

Act or business of spying.

See Pinnace, n., 1 (a).

To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.

A young chicken before it is fully fledged.

To crush; to quash; to squash.

Thick; fat; heavy.

A scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl.

One who squabbles; a contentious person; a brawler.

Short and thick; sqabbish.

A heron (Ardea comata) found in Asia, Northern Africa, and Southern Europe.

Sloppy mud.

Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a body of troops drawn up in a square.

Formed into squadrons, or squares.

To throw sticks at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly.

Squeamish.

The suborder of elasmobranch fishes which comprises the sharks.

Dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty.

The quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness.

In a squalid manner.

Quality or state of being squalid.

A loud scream; a harsh cry.

One who squalls; a screamer.

Abounding with squalls; disturbed often with sudden and violent gusts of wind; gusty; as, squally weather.

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

Pertaining to Squalodon.

Like or pertaining to a shark or sharks.

Squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity.

An oilskin hat or southwester; -- a fisherman's name.

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

Squamose.

A division of edentates having the body covered with large, imbricated horny scales. It includes the pangolins.

Same as Squamose.

A scale.

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

Furnished or covered with little scales; squamulose.

Having the shape of a scale.

Bearing scales.

Resembling a scale; also, covered with scales; scaly.

Scalelike; squamous; as, the squamosal bone. Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone. The squamous part of the temporal bone, or a bone corresponding to it, in many of the lower vertebrates. See Temporal bone, under Temporal.

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

One of the little hypogynous scales found in the flowers of grasses; a lodicule.

Same as Squamulose.

Same as Squamula.

Having little scales; squamellate; squamulate.

The act of squandering; waste.

One who squanders.

In a squandering manner.

To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to conform or agree; to suit; to fit.

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.

Having the toe square.

A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly.

In a square form or manner.

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

One who, or that which, squares.

Nearly square.

Ragged or full of loose 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.

Having the teeth bent out of the plane of the lamina; -- said of a leaf.

Squarrose.

Somewhat squarrose; slightly squarrose.

Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease.

One who, or that which, squashes.

The quality or state of being squashy, or soft.

Easily squashed; soft.

The posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or close to the ground.

The black-bellied plover.

One who squats; 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 legal permission and restrictions, before acquiring title.

Squat; dumpy.

A female; a woman, especially a married woman; a wife; -- in the language of Indian tribes of the Algonquin family, correlative of sannup.

A local name for the partridge berry; also, for the deerberry.

Act of squawking; a harsh squeak.

See Squall.

A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; -- called also cancer root.

The golden ragwort. See under Ragwort.

A sharp, shrill, disagreeable sound suddenly uttered, 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.

One who, or that which, squeaks.

In a squeaking manner.

A shrill, sharp, somewhat prolonged cry.

One who, or that which, squeals.

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

Squeamish.

Queasiness.

Queasy; nice; squeamish; fastidious; scrupulous.

To smooth, clean, press, or treat with a squeegee; to squilgee.

The act of one who squeezes; compression between bodies; pressure.

One who, or that which, squeezes; as, a lemon squeezer.

The act of pressing; compression; oppression.

To make a sound like that made by the feet of one walking in mud or slush; to make a kind of swashing sound; to squish; also, to move with such a sound.

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 (Cynoscion 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 squit, and, locally, sea trout, and sea salmon. See also under squitee.

To throw squibs; to utter sarcastic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, to squib a little in debate.

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 square. See 1st Squire.

A company of squires; the whole body of squires.

Somewhat intoxicated; tipsy.

To move about like an eel; to squirm.

To swab, press, or treat with a squilgee; as, to squilgee a vessel's deck.

A European bulbous liliaceous plant (Urginea maritima, 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 (Scilla mutans).