2. Part of an army; a troop. We squander away some part of our fortune at Eurimidon then rein'd his horse, that trotted play: Atterbury. neighing by; They often squander'd, but they never gave. The king a foot-man, and so scowres the squae Suvage. drons orderly. Chapman. Never take a favourite waiting-maid, to insiNothing the Moors were more afraid of, than nuate how great a fortune you brought, and how io a set battle to fight with squadrons coming little you are allowed to squander. Swift. orderly on. Knolles. Then, in plain prose, were made two sorts of Then beauteous Atys, with lülus bred, men; Of equal age, the second squadron led. Dryden, To squander some, and some to hide agen. Pope. 3. Part of a Acet; a certain number of True friends would rather see such thoughts as ships. they communicate only to one another, than what Rome could not maintain its dominion over they squander about to all the world. Pope. How uncertain it is, whether the years we so many provinces, without squadrons ready equipt. Arbuthnot. propose to ourselves shall be indulged to us; un certain whether we shall have power, or even SQUA'DRONED. adj. [from squadron.] inclination, to improve them better than those Formed into squadrons. we now squander away. Rogers, They gladly thither haste; and by a choir 2. To scatter ; to dissipate; to disperse. Of squadron't angels hear his carol sung. Milt. He hath an argosie bound to Tripolis, another SQUA'Lin, adj. (squalidus, Lat.] Foul; to the Indies, and other ventures he hath squannasty ; filthy. dered abroad. Sbakspeare. A doleful case desires a doleful song, The troops we squander'd first again appear Without vain art or curious compliments; From sev'ral quarters, and inclose the rear. And squalid fortune into baseness flowing Dryden. Doth scorn the pride of wonted ornaments. He is a successful warrior, Spenser. And has the soldiers hearts: upon the skirts Uncomb'd his locks, and squalid his attire, Of Arragon our squander'd troops he rallies. Unlike the trim of love and gay desire. Dryden. Dryden. All these Cocytus bounds with squalid reeds, SQUA’NDERER. n. s. [from squander.] A With muddy ditches, and with deadly weeds. spendthrift; a prodigal; a waster ; a Dryden. lavisher, TO SQUALL. V. n. [squela, Swedish.] Plenty in their own keeping teaches them To scream out as a child or woman from the beginning to be squanderers and wasters. frighted. Locke. In my neighbourhood, a very pretty prattling SQUARE. adj. [ysgwâr, Welsh ; quashoulder of veal squalls out at the sight of a dratus, Latin.] knife. Spectator. 1. Cornered; having right angles. I put five into my coat-pocket; and as to the sixth, I made a countenance as if I would eat All the doors and posts were square, with the windows. him alive. The poor man squalled terribly. Kings. Water and air the varied form confound; Swift. Cornelius sunk back on a chair; the guests The straight looks crooked, and the square grows round. Prior. stood astonished; the infant squalled. Arbuthnot and Pope. 2. Forming a right angle. This instrument is for striking lines square to SQUALL. 11. s. (from the verb.] other lines or straight sides, and try the square1. Loud scream. ness of their work. Moxon. There oft are heard the notes of infant woe, 3. Cornered ; having angles of whatever The short thick sob, loud scream, and shriller content; as three square, five square. squall. Pope. square shield, 2. Sudden gust of wind. A sailor's word. And shining helmet, soon him buckled to the SQUA’LLER. n. s. [from squall.] Screamer; field. Spenser. one that screams. The clavicle is a crooked bone, in the figure SQUA'Lly, adj. (from squall.) Windy; of an S; one end of which being thicker, and almost three square, is inserted into the first gusty. A sailor's word. bone of the sternon. Wiseman. SQUALOR. n. s. (Latin.) Coarseness ; 4. Parallel ; exactly suitable. nastiness; want of cleanliness and neat- She 's a most triumphant lady, if report be Dess. Sbaksprare, Take heed that their new flowers and sweet- s. Strong; stout; well set: as, a square ness do not as much corrupt as the others dryDess and squalor. Ben Jonson. 6. Equal; exact ; honest ; fair: as, square What can filthy poverty give else, but beggary, fulsome nastiness, squalor, ugliness, hunger, and dealing. thirst? Burton, All haye not offended ; SQUA'Nous. adj. [squameus, Lat.] Scaly ; For those that were, it is not square to take On those that are, revenge; criines,like to lands, covered with scales. Are not inherited. Sbakspeare. The sea was replenished with fish of the carti 9. In geometry.] Square root of any Jaginous and squamose, as of the testaceous and Crustaceous, kinds. Woodward. number is that which, multiplied by it. Those galls and balls are produced in the gems self, produces the square, as 4 is the of oak, which may be called squamous oak cones. square root of 16 ; because 4 X 4 = 16; Derbum. and likewise 6 the square root of 36, as T. SQUANDER. v. a. [verschwenden, 6 x 6=36. Teutonick.] SQUARE, n. s. [ quadra, Latin.] 1. To scatter lavishly; to spend profusely; 1. A figure with right angles and equal to throw away in idle prodigality. sides. square to her. man. Then did a sharped spire of diamond bright, 12. SQUARES go. The game proceeds. Ten feet each way, in square appear to me, Justly proportion'd up into his height, Chessboards heing full of squarts. So far as archer might his level see. Spenser. One frog looked about him to see how squares Rais'd of grassy curt their table was; went with their new king. L'Estrange. And on her ample square from side to side TO SQUARE. V. a. [quadro, Lat. from the AU autumn pil'd. Milton. noun.] 2. An area of four sides, with houses on 1. To form with right angles. each side, 2. To reduce to a square. The statue of Alexander VII. stands in the Circles to square, and cubes to double, large square of the town. Addison. Prior. 3. Content of an angle. 3. To measure; to reduce to a measure. In rectangie triar les the square which is Stubborn criticks, apt, without a theme made of the side that subtendeth the right angle, For depravation, to square all the sex is equal to the squares which are made of the By Cressid's rule. Slakspeare. sides containing the right ar:gle. Brutin. 4. To adjust; to regulate ; to mould; to 4. A rule or instrument by which work shape. men measure or for their angles. Dreams are toys; 5. Rule ; regularity ; exact proportion; Yet for this once, yea superstitiously, justness of workmanship or conduct. I will be squared by this. Sbakspeare. Not now much used. How frantickl, I square my talk! Sbakspeare. In St. Paul's time, the integrity of Rome was Thou 'rt said to have a stubborn soui, famous; Corinth many ways reproved; they of Tha: apprehends no further than this world, Galatia much more out of square. Hooker. And squar'se thy life accordingly. Sbakspeare. The whole ordinance of that government was He employs not on us the hammer and the at first evil plotted, and through other oversights chizzel, with an intent to wound or mangle us, came more out of square, to that disorder which but only to square and fashion our hard and it is now come unto. Spenser. stubborn hearts. Borike. I have not kept my square, but that to come God has designed us a measure of our underShall all be done by th' rule. Sbakspeare. takings; his word and law, by the proportions Nothing so much setteth this art of indiuence whereof we are to square our actions. out of square and rule as education. Raleigh. Decay of Piety. The oracle was enforced to proclaim Socrates 6. Squadron ; troops formed square. Not to be the wisest man in the world; because he in use. applied his studies to the moral part, the squar. He alone ing men's lives. Hammond Dealt on lieutenantry, and no practice had. His preaching much, but more his practice In the brave squares of war. Sbakspeare. wrought; Our superfluous lacqueys and our peasants, A living sermon of the truths he taught: Who in unnecessary action swarm For this by rules severe his lite he sguar'd, About our squares of battle, were enow That all might see the doctrine which they To purge this field of such a hilding foe. Shaks. heard. Dryden. 7. A square number is when another, call This must convince all such who have, upon a ed its root, can be exactly found, which wrong interpretation, presumed to square opie multiplied by itself produces the square. nions by theirs, and have in loud exclamations The following example is not accurate. shewn their abhorrence of university education, Advance thy golden mountains to the skies, Swift. On the broad base of fifty thousand rise : 5. To accommodate ; to fit. Add one round hundred; and, if that 's not fair, Eye me, blest providence, and square my trial Add fifty mcre, and bring it to a square. Pope. To my proportion'd strength. Alilton. 8. Quaternion; number four : though per Some professions can equally square them selves to, and thrive under, all revolutions of haps, in the following lines, square may government. Jcute. mean only capacity. 6. To respect in quartile. I profess O'er Libra's sign a crowd of foes prevails, Myself an enemy to all other joys Which the most precious square of sense pos The icy goat and crab that square the scales. Creecb sesses, To SQUARE, V. n. Sbakspeare. 1. To suit with ; to fit with. I set them by the rule; and, as they square, 9. Level ; equality. Men should sort themselves with their equals; Or deviate from undoubted doctrine, tare. for a rich man that converses upon the square Dryden. with a poor man shall certainly undo him. His description squares exactly zo lime. Woodward. We live not on the square with such as these, These marine bodies do not squire with those Such are our betters who can beiter please. opinions, but exhibic phænomena that thwart Dryden. them. Woodward, 10. Quartile ; the astrological situation of 2. To quarrel ; to go to opposite sides. Obsolete. planets, distant ninety degrees from each Are other. such fools you To square for this? would it oftend you then To th' other five That both should speed? Their planetary inotions and aspects, Svakspeare. But they do square, that all their elves for icar In sextile, square, and erine, and opposite, Of noxious efficacy. NIilton, Sbakspeare. 11. Rule; conformity. A proverbial use. I shall break no squares whether it be so or SQU A'R ENESS. n. s. [from square.] The L'Estrange. state of being square. Fot. Pope. Pope. This instrument is for striking lines square to Romans squeaking through the mouth of an eu. other lines or straight lines, and try the square nuch? Aldison, ness of their work. Moxon. Hoy like brutes organs are to ours: Motion, squareness, or any particular shape, They grant, if higher pow's think tit, are the accidents of body. Watts. A bear might soon be made a wit; And that, for any thing in nature, SQU3SH.n. s. [frem quash.] Pigs might squeak leve-odes, dogs bark satire. 1. Ary thing soft and easily crushed. Prior, Not yet old enough for a man, nor young In florid impotence he speaks, enough for a boy; as a squash is before it is a And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet peasecod, or a codling when it is almost an apple. Squeaks. Sbakspeare. Zoilus calls the companions of Ulysses the 2. [melopepo.] A plant. Miller. squeaking pigs of Homer. Squasb is an Indian kind of pumpion that 3. To break silence or secrecy for fear or grows apace. Boyle. pain. 3. Any i ning unripe; any thing soft. In If he be obstinate, put a civil question to him contempt. upon the rack, and he squeako, I warrant him. Dry. How like I then was to this kernel, SQU+AK. N. s. \ froin the verb.] A shrill This squash, this gentlernan. Sbakspears. quick cry; a cry of pain. 4. A sudden fall. Ran cow and calf, and family of hogs, Since they will overload my shoulders, I shall In panick horrour of pursuing dogs: throw down the burden with a squash among With many a deadly grunt and doleful squeak, them. Arbuthnot. Poor swine! as if their pretty hearts woulä 5. A glock of soft bodies. break. Dryden. My fall was stouped by a terrible squash, that To SQUEAL. v. n. [sqwala, Swedish. To sounded louder than the cataract of Niagara. cry with a shrill sharp voice ; to cry Szift. To SQUASH. v.a. To crush into pulp. with pain. Squeak seems a short sudden cry, and squeal a cry continued. TO SQUAT. V. n. (quat'are, Ital.] To sit SQUE A MISH. adj. [for quamish or cowering ; to sit close to the ground. SQUAT. adj. [from the verb.] qualmish, from qualm.] Nice; fastidi ous ; easily disgusted ; having the sto1. Cowering ; close to the ground. mach easily turned; being apt to take Him there they found, offence without much reason. It is used Squat like a toud, close at the ear of Eve. Milt. Her dearest comrades never caught her always in dislike either real or ironical. Squat on her hams. Swift. Yet, for countenance sake, he seemed very 2. Short and thick; having one part close squeamish in respect of the charge he had of the to another, as those of an animal con princess Pamela. Sidney. Quoth he, that honour 's very squeamish, tracted and cowering. That takes a basting for a blemish; The squill-insect is so called from some simi- For what's more honourable than scars, litude to tlse squill-fish: the head is broad and Or skin to tatters rent in wars? Hudibras, squat. Grew, His muse is rustick, and perhaps too plain Alma in verse, in prose, the mind, Themen of squeamish taste toentertain. Southern Throughout the body, squat or tail, It is rare to see a man at once squeamish and Is bona fide all in all. Prior. voracious. South, SQUAT. N. S. There is no occasion to oppose the ancients 1. The posture of cowering or lying close. and the moderns, or to be squeamish on either A stitch-fall’n cheek that hangs below the jaw; side. He that wisely conducts his mind in the Such wrinkles as a skilful hand would draw pursuit of knowledge, will gather what lights he For an old grandam ape, when with a grace can from either. Locka She sits at squat, and scrubs her leathern face. SQUE AʼMISHLY. adv. [from squeamish.] Dryden. In a fastidious manner. 2. A sudden fall. SQUE AʼMISHNESS. n. s. [from squeamish.] Bruises, squats, and falls, which often kill Niceness ; delicacy; fastidiousness. others, can bring little hurt to those that are The thorough-paced politician must laugh at temperate. Herbert. SQUAT.". s. A sort of mineral. the squeamishness of his conscience, and read it another lecture. South. The squat consists of tin oar and spar incor- Upon their principles they may revive the porated. Woodward. worship of the host of heaven; it is but conquer. To SQUEAK. V. n. [sqwaka, Swedish.] ing a little squeamishness of stomach. Stillingf.. 1. To set up a sudden dolorous cry ; to To administer this dose, fifty thousand operacry out with pain. tors, considering the squeamishness of some sto2. To cry with a shrill acute tone. machs, and the peevishness of young children, is but reasonable. The sheeted dead Swift. Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. TO SQUEEZE. v. a. (cpisan, Saxon ; js• Sbakspeare. gwasgu, Welsh.] Cart wheels squeak not when they are li- 1. To press; to crush between two bodies. quored: Bacon, It is applied to the squeezing or pressing of I see the new Arion sail, things downwards, as in the presses for printing. The late still trembling underneath thy nail : Wilkins, Aechy well sharpen'd thumb from shore to The sinking of the earth would make a conshore, vulsion of the air, and that crack must so shake The trebles squeak for fear, the bases roar. Dry. or squeeeze the atmosphere, as to bring down all Biunderbussis, planted in every loop-hole, go the remaining vapours. Burnet. off at the squeaking of a fiddle, and the thrum- He reap'd the product of his labour'd ground, ming of a guitar. Dryden. And squeez'd, the combs with golden liquor Who can endure to hear one of the rough old crown'd, Dryden. a None acted mournings forc'd to show, SQUILL. n. s. [squilla, scilla, Lat. squille, Or squeeze his eyes to make the torrent flow. French.) Dryden. When Florio speaks, what virgin could with 1. A plant. stand, It hath a large acrid bulbous root, If gentie Damon did not squeeze her hand ? Pope. like an onion; the leaves are broad; the 2. To oppress; to crush; to harass by flowers are like those of ornithogalum, extortion. or the starry hyacinth : they grow in In a civil war people must expect to be crushed a long spike, and come out before the and squerzed toward the burden. L'Estrange. leaves. Miller. 3. To force between close bodies. Seed or kernels of apples and pears, put into a Y SQUEEZE. v. 11. squill, which is like a gre ii onion, will come up I. To act or pass, in consequence of com carlier than in the earth itself. Bacon. pression. 'T will down like oxymel of squills. Roscono A concave sphere of gold filled with water and The self-same atoms soldered up, upon pressing the sphere with great Can, in the truffle, furnish out a feast; force, let the water squceze through it, and stand And nauseate, in the scaly squill, the taste. Garte, all over its outside in multitudes of small drops, like dew, without bursting or cracking the body 2. A fish. of the gold. Newton. 3. An insect. What crowds of these, impenitently bold, The squill insect is so called from some similiIn sounds and jingling syllables grown old, tude to the squill fish, in having a long body coStill run on poets, in a raging vein, vered with a crust, composed of several rings: Ev'n to the dregs and squeezings of the brain. the head broad and squat. Greu. Pope. SQU'NANCY. n. s. (squinance, squinancie, 2. To force way through close bodies. Fr. squinantia, Ital.] An infiammation Many a publick minister comes empty in; but in the throat; a quinsy. when he has crammed his 'guts, he is fain to Used for squinancies and inflammations of the squeeze hard before he can get off. L'Estrange. throat; it seemeth to have a mollifying and SQUEEZE. 1. s. [from the verb.] Com- lenifying virtue. Baron pression; pressure, In a squinancy there is danger of suffocation. A subtile artist stands with wond'rous bag, Wisemar. That bears imprison'd winds, of gentler sort SQUINT. adj. [squinte, Dutch, oblique, Than those that erst Laertes' son enclos'd: transverse.] Looking obliquely; look. Peaceful they sleep; but let the tuneful squeeze Of lab’ring elbow rouse them, out they tly ing not directly; looking suspiciously. Melodious, and with spritely accents charm. Where an equal poise of hope and fear Does arbitrate the event, my nature is That I incline to hope rather than fear, And gladly banish squint suspicion. Milton. crous word. He tore the earth which he had say'd To SQUINT. v. n. To look obliquely; to From squelch of knight, and storm'd and ravid. look not in a direct line of vision. a Hudibras. Some can squint when they will; and children So soon as the poor devil had recovered the set upon a table with a candle behind them, squelcb, away he scan.pers, bawling like mad. both eyes will move outwards, to see the light, L'Estrange. Baron. SQUIB. n. s. [schieben, German, to push Not a period of this epistle but squints to forward. This etymology, though the wards another over aguinst it. Popa. best that I have found, is not very pro To SQUINT, V'. a. bable.] 1. To form the eye to oblique vision. This is the foul Flibertigibbet; he gives the I. A small pipe of paper filled with wildfire. Used in sport. web and the pin, squints the eye, and makes the hair:ip. $bakspeare. The armada at Calais, sir Walter Raleigh was 2. To turn the eye obliquely. wont prettily to say, were suddenly driven away Perkin began already to squint one eye opon with squibs; for it was no more thin a stratageni of fire-boats manless, and sent upon them. Bacon. the crown, and another upon the sanctuary: Bacon. The forest of the south compareth the French SQUI’NTEYED. adj. [squint and exc.] valour to a squib, or fire of flax, which burns and crackles for a time, but suddenly extinguishes. 1. Having the sight directed oblique. Honeel. Fie was so squinteved, that he seemed spitefulLampoons, like squiós, may make a present ly to look upon thein whom he beheld. Knulles. blaze; 2. Indirect ; oblique ; malignant. But time, and thunder, pay respect to bays. This is such a false and squintezed praise, Weller. Which seeming to look upwards on his glories, Furious he begins his march, Looks down upon my fears. Denban. Drives rattling o'er a brazen arch; With squibs and crackers arın'd, to throw SQUINT:FE'GO. adj. Squinting. A cant Among the trenibling crowd below. Svift. word. Criticks on verse, as squibs on triumphs wait, The timbrel and the squintifogo maid Proclaim the glory, and augment the state. Of lsis awe thee; lest the gods, for sin, Your. Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin. Dryden. 2. Any petty fellow. Not in use. Asked for their pass by every squib, To SQUI'N Y. v.9. To look asquint. A That list at will them to revile or snib. Spenser. cant word. The squits, in the common phrase, are called I remember thine eyes well enough: libellers. Tasier. Dost thou squing at me ? Sbalsperto SQUIRE, n. s. [contraction of esquire; passes for a distinct species where it has a disa escurger, Fr.] See EsQUIRE. tiet name; as in England, where it is called Stabbing. Locke. 1. A gentleman next in rank to a knight. He will maintain you like a gentlewoman. 2. To oifer a stab. Ay, that I will, come cut and long tail under the Thouhid'st a thousand daggers in thy thoughts, degree of a squire. Sbakspeare. Which thou hast whetted on thy stony heart, The rest are princes, barons, knights, squires, To stab at my trail life. Sbukspeare And gentlemen of blood. Sbakspeare. 3. To give a mortal wound. 2. An attendant on a noble warriour. He speaks poinards, and every word stabs. Old Butes' form he took, Anchises' squire, Sbakspears Now left to rule Ascanius. *Dryden. STAB. n. s. [from the verb.) Knights, squires, and steeds, must enter on the 1. A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon. stage. Pope. 'The elements 3. An attendant at court. Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as well Return with her could as well be brought Wound the loud winds, or with bemockt at stabs To knee his throne, and squire-like pension beg, Kill the still closing waters. Sbakspeare. To keep base life a-foot. Sbakspeare. Cleander, SQUI'RREL, n. s. [escurueil, Fr. sciurus, Unworthy was thy fate, thou first of warriours, To fall beneath a base assassin's stab. Rowe. Lat.) A small animal that lives in woods, remarkable for leaping from tree to tree. 2. A dark injury; a sly mischief. One chanc'd to find a nut, 3. A stroke; a blow. In th' end of which a hole was cut, He had a scripture ready to repel them all; Which lay upon a hazel-root, every pertinent text urged home being a direct There scatter'd by a squirrel, stab to a temptation. South. Which out the kernel gotten had; ST A'BBER. n. s. [from stab.] One who When quoth this fay, dear queen, be glad, stabs; a privy murderer. Let Oberon be ne'er so mad, I'll set you safe from peril. Drayton. STABI'LIMENT. n. s. - [from stabilis, To SQUIRT. v. a. (of uncertain etymo- Lat.) Support ; firmness; act of make logy. To throw out in a quick stream. ing firm. Sir Roger she mortally hated, and used to hire They serve for stabiliment, propagation, and fellows to squirt kennel water upon him as he shade. Derban, passed along. Arbuthnot. STABI’LITY. n. s. [stabilité, Fr. from staTo SQUIRT. V. n. To let fly; to prate. bilitas, Lat.] Low cant. 1. Stableness; steadiness; strength to You are so given to squirting up and down, stand. and chattering, that the world would say, I had By the same degrees that either of these hape chosen a jack-pudding for a prime minister. the stability of the figure is by the same L'Estrange. lessened. Temple. SQUIRT. N. s. [from the verb.] These mighty girders which the fabrick bind, 1. An instrument by which a quick stream These ribs robust and vast in order join'd, is ejected. Such strength and such stability impart, He with his squirt-fire could disperse That storms above, and earthquakes under Whole troops. Hudibras. ground, His weapons are, a pin to scratch, and a squirt Break not the pillars. Blackmore. to bespatter. Pope. He began to try 2. A small quick stream. This and that hanging stone's stability. Cotton. Water those with squirts of an infusion of the 2. Fixedness; not fluidity. medicine in dunged water. Bacon. Since fluidness and stability are contrary quaSQUI'RTER. 1. s. [from squirt.] One that lities, we may conceive that the firmness or sta bility of a body consists in this, that the partieles plies a squirt. which compose it do so rest, or are intangled, The squirters were at it with their kennel wa. that there is among them a mutual cohesion. ter, for they were mad for the loss of their bub Boyle. ble. Arbuthnot. T. STAB. v. a. [staven, old Dutch.]' 3. Firmness of resolution. ŠTa'ble, adj. (stable, Fr. stabilis, Lat.), 1. To pierce with a pointed weapon. 1. Fixed ; able to stand. Hear the lamentations of poor Anne, Wife to thy Edward, to thy slaughter'd son; 2. Steady; constant ; fixed in resolution Stabb'd by the self-same hand that made these or conduct. wounds. Shakspeare. If man would be unvariable, Porcius, think thou seest thy dying brother He must be like a rock, or stone, or tree; Stabb'd at his heart, and all besmear'd with blood, For ev'n the perfect angels were not stable, Storming at thee! Addison, But had a fall more desperate than we. Davies, 2. To wound mortally or mischievously. He, perfect, stable; but imperfect we, Subject to change. Dryden. Then, to complete her woes, will I espouse 3. Strong ; fixed in state or condition ; Hermione :'( will stab her to the heart! A.Pbil. durable. TO STAE. V.n. This region of chance and vanity, where no s. To give a wound with a pointed wea thing is stable, nothing equal; nothing could he offered to-day but what to-morrow might depon. None shall dare prive us of. Rogers With shorten'd sword to stab in closer war, STA’BLE. n. s. [stabulum, Lat.] A house Bur in fair combat fight. Dryden. for beasts. Killing a man with a sword or a hatchet, are I will make Rabbah a stable for camels. Ezra. looked on as no distinet species of action; but if Slothful disorder fill’d his stable, the post of the sword first enter the body, it And sluttish plenty deck'd her table. Prior. pen, |