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).

Any one of numerous stomapod crustaceans of the genus Squilla and allied genera. They make burrows in mud or beneath stones on the seashore. Called also mantis shrimp. See Illust. under Stomapoda.

Of or pertaining to squills.

The quinsy. See Quinsy.

A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon.

See Quinsy.

The act or habit of squinting.

An eye that squints.

Having eyes that squint; having eyes with axes not coincident; cross-eyed; also called squinty-eyed.

One who squints.

Squinting.

a. n. from Squint, v.

To squint.

See Quinsy.

To throw with a jerk; to throw edge foremost.

Same as Squirarchy.

One who belongs to the squirarchy.

The gentlemen, or gentry, of a country, collectively.

To attend as a squire.

One who is half squire and half farmer; -- used humorously.

The rank or state of a squire; squireship.

A petty squire.

Becoming a squire; like a squire.

Squirehood.

See Squir.

Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Sciurus and several allied genera of the family Sciuridae. Squirrels generally have a bushy tail, large erect ears, and strong hind legs. They are commonly arboreal in their habits, but many species live in burrows.

An instrument out of which a liquid is ejected in a small stream with force.

One who, or that which, squirts.

The body of squires, collectively considered; squirarchy.

A sound like that made by the feet of one walking in mud or slush; a gushing, swashing, or splashing sound; a squishing sound.

The squeteague; -- called also squit.

Scum; refuse.

A Dutch saint, who was reputed to bring gifts to children on Christmas even, giving rise to the modern legend of Santa Claus.

The thrust of a pointed weapon.

One who, or that which, stabs; a privy murderer.

By stabbing; with intent to injure covertly.

The act of making firm; firm support; establishment.

To make stable; to establish.

The state or quality of being stable, or firm; steadiness; stableness; firmness; strength to stand without being moved or overthrown; as, the stability of a structure; the stability of a throne or a constitution.

To dwell or lodge in a stable; to dwell in an inclosed place; to kennel.

A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler.

The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.

A stable keeper.

The act or practice of keeping horses and cattle in a stable.

To settle permanently in a state; to make firm; to establish; to fix.

Establishment.

In a stable manner; firmly; fixedly; steadily; as, a government stably settled.

The act of stabling or housing beasts.

Disconnected; separated; distinct; -- a direction to perform the notes of a passage in a short, distinct, and pointed manner. It is opposed to legato, and often indicated by heavy accents written over or under the notes, or by dots when the performance is to be less distinct and emphatic.

To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood.

A covering or protection, as of canvas, for a stack.

Hay, grain, or the like, in stacks; things stacked.

A stockade.

a. n. from Stack.

A staging for supporting a stack of hay or grain; a staddle{2}; a rickstand.

A yard or inclosure for stacks of hay or grain.

One of the sweet spices used by the ancient Jews in the preparation of incense. It was perhaps an oil or other form of myrrh or cinnamon, or a kind of storax.

To leave the staddles, or saplings, of, as a wood when it is cut.

A landing place or wharf.

A horizontal graduated bar mounted on a staff, used as a stadium, or telemeter, for measuring distances.

A Greek measure of length, being the chief one used for itinerary distances, also adopted by the Romans for nautical and astronomical measurements. It was equal to 600 Greek or 625 Roman feet, or 125 Roman paces, or to 606 feet 9 inches English. This was also called the Olympic stadium, as being the exact length of the foot-race course at Olympia.

Formerly, the chief magistrate of the United Provinces of Holland; also, the governor or lieutenant governor of a province.

The office or position of a stadtholder.

The legislature of Switzerland. See Legislature, above.

An estafet.

Plaster combined with fibrous and other materials so as to be suitable for sculpture in relief or in the round, or for forming flat plates or boards of considerable size which can be nailed to framework to make the exterior of a larger structure, forming joints which may afterward be repaired and concealed with fresh plaster.

An attendant bearing a staff.

Stiff; harsh.

A workman employed in silk throwing.

To watch; to dog, or keep track of.

A kind of palsy affecting the jaw of a horse.

Having the mandibles large and palmate, or branched somewhat like the antlers of a stag; -- said of certain beetles.

To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly.

Fascinated by the stage; seized by a passionate desire to become an actor.

A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.

One who drives a stagecoach.

A house where a stage regularly stops for passengers or a relay of horses.

Pertaining to a stage; becoming the theater; theatrical.

A dramatic or theatrical entertainment.

An actor on the stage; one whose occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.

A player.

Exhibition on the stage.

The male red deer when four years old.

An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man.