Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 141

Spynace (n.) Alt. of Spyne

Spyne (n.) See Pinnace, n., 1 (a).

Squab (a.) Fat; thick; plump; bulky.

Squab (a.) Unfledged; unfeathered; as, a squab pigeon.

Squab (n.) A neatling of a pigeon or other similar bird, esp. when very fat and not fully fledged.

Squab (n.) A person of a short, fat figure.

Squab (n.) A thickly stuffed cushion; especially, one used for the seat of a sofa, couch, or chair; also, a sofa.

Squab (adv.) With a heavy fall; plump.

Squab (v. i.) To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.

Squabash (v. t.) To crush; to quash; to squash.

Squabbish (a.) Thick; fat; heavy.

Squabbled (imp. & p. p.) of Squabble

Squabbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squabble

Squabble (v. i.) To contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.

Squabble (v. i.) To debate peevishly; to dispute.

Squabble (v. t.) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry or are mixed and need careful readjustment; -- said of type that has been set up.

Squabble (n.) A scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl.

Squabbler (n.) One who squabbles; a contentious person; a brawler.

Squabby (a.) Short and thick; suqabbish.

Squab-chick (n.) A young chicken before it is fully fledged.

Squaccos (pl. ) of Squacco

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

Squad (n.) A small party of men assembled for drill, inspection, or other purposes.

Squad (n.) Hence, any small party.

Squad (n.) Sloppy mud.

Squadron (n.) Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a body of troops drawn up in a square.

Squadron (n.) A body of cavarly comparising two companies or troops, and averging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred men.

Squadron (n.) A detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer; as, the North Atlantic Squadron.

Squadroned (a.) Formed into squadrons, or squares.

Squail (v. i.) To throw sticls at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly.

Squaimous (a.) Squeamish.

Squali (n. pl.) The suborder of elasmobranch fishes which comprises the sharks.

Squalid (a.) Dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty.

Squalidity (n.) The quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness.

Squalidly (adv.) In a squalid manner.

Squalidness (n.) Quality or state of being squalid.

Squall (n.) A sudden violent gust of wind often attended with rain or snow.

Squalled (imp. & p. p.) of Squall

Squalling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squall

Squall (v. i.) To cry out; to scream or cry violently, as a woman frightened, or a child in anger or distress; as, the infant squalled.

Squall (n.) A loud scream; a harsh cry.

Squaller (n.) One who squalls; a screamer.

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

Squally (a.) Interrupted by unproductive spots; -- said of a flied of turnips or grain.

Squally (a.) Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty; -- said of cloth.

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

Squalodont (a.) Pertaining to Squalodon.

Squaloid (a.) Like or pertaining to a shark or sharks.

Squalor (n.) Squalidness; foulness; filthness; squalidity.

Squamae (pl. ) of Squama

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

Squamaceous (a.) Squamose.

Squamata (n. pl.) A division of edentates having the body covered with large, imbricated horny scales. It includes the pangolins.

Squamate (a.) Alt. of Squamated

Squamated (a.) Same as Squamose.

Squamduck () The American eider duck.

Squame (n.) A scale.

Squame (n.) The scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean.

Squamellae (pl. ) of Squamella

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

Squamellate (a.) Furnished or covered with little scales; squamulose.

Squamiform (a.) Having the shape of a scale.

Squamigerous (a.) Bearing scales.

Squamipennes (pl. ) of Squamipen

Squamipen (n.) Any one of a group of fishes having the dorsal and anal fins partially covered with scales.

Squamoid (a.) Resembling a scale; also, covered with scales; scaly.

Squamosal (a.) Scalelike; squamous; as, the squamosal bone.

Squamosal (a.) Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone.

Squamosal (n.) The squamous part of the temporal bone, or a bone correspondending to it, under Temporal.

Squamose () Alt. of Squamous

Squamous () 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.

Squamous () Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal.

Squamozygomatic (a.) Of or pertaining to both the squamosal and zygomatic bones; -- applied to a bone, or a center of ossification, in some fetal skulls.

Squamozygomatic (n.) A squamozygomatic bone.

Squamulae (pl. ) of Squamula

Squamula (n.) One of the little hypogynous scales found in the flowers of grasses; a lodicule.

Squamulate (a.) Same as Squamulose.

Squamule (n.) Same as Squamula.

Squamulose (a.) Having little scales; squamellate; squamulate.

Squandered (imp. & p. p.) of Squander

Squandering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squander

Squander (v. t.) To scatter; to disperse.

Squander (v. t.) To spend lavishly or profusely; to spend prodigally or wastefully; to use without economy or judgment; to dissipate; as, to squander an estate.

Squander (v. i.) To spend lavishly; to be wasteful.

Squander (v. i.) To wander at random; to scatter.

Squander (n.) The act of squandering; waste.

Squanderer (n.) One who squanders.

Squanderingly (adv.) In a squandering manner.

Square (n.) The corner, or angle, of a figure.

Square (n.) A parallelogram having four equal sides and four right angles.

Square (n.) Hence, anything which is square, or nearly so

Square (n.) A square piece or fragment.

Square (n.) A pane of glass.

Square (n.) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; -- used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspapers.

Square (n.) One hundred superficial feet.

Square (n.) An area of four sides, generally with houses on each side; sometimes, a solid block of houses; also, an open place or area for public use, as at the meeting or intersection of two or more streets.

Square (n.) An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc.

Square (n.) Hence, a pattern or rule.

Square (n.) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; thus, 64 is the square of 8, for 8 / 8 = 64; the square of a + b is a2 + 2ab + b2.

Square (n.) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.

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