Spring – Squirt

Spring

SPRING, verb intransitive preterit tense sprung, [sprang, not wholly obsolete; ] participle passive sprung.

1. To vegetate and rise out of the ground; to begin to appear; as vegetables.

To satisfy the desolate ground, and cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth. Job 38:27.

2. To begin to grow.

The teeth of the young not sprung--

3. To proceed, as from the seed or cause.

Much more good of sin shall spring

4. To arise; to appear; to begin to appear or exist.

When the day began to spring they let her go. Judges 21:1

Do not blast my springing hopes.

5. To break forth; to issue into sight or notice.

O spring to light; auspicious babe, be born.

6. To issue or proceed, as from ancestors or from a country. Aaron and Moses sprung from Levi.

7. To proceed, as from a cause, reason, principle, or other original. The noblest title springs from virtue.

They found new hope to spring out of despair.

8. To grow; to thrive.

What makes all this but Jupiter the king, at whose command we perish and we spring

9. To proceed or issue, as from a fountain or source. Water springs from reservoirs in the earth. Rivers spring from lakes or ponds.

10. To leap; to bound; to jump.

The mountain stag that springs from highth to highth, and bounds along the plains--

11. To fly back; to start; as, a bow when bent, springs back by its elastic power.

12. To start or rise suddenly from a covert.

Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring

13. To shoot; to issue with speed and violence.

And sudden light sprung through the vaulted roof--

14. To bend or wind from a straight direction or plane surface. Our mechanics say, a piece of timber or a plank springs in seasoning.

To spring at, to leap towards; to attempt to reach by a leap.

To spring in, to rush in; to enter with a leap or in haste.

To spring forth, to leap out; to rush out.

To spring on or upon, to leap on; to rush on with haste or violence; to assault.

SPRING, verb transitive

1. To start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant.

2. To produce quickly or unexpectedly.

The nurse, surprisd with fright, starts up and leaves her bed, and springs a light.

[I have never heard such an expression.]

3. To start; to contrive or to produce or propose on a sudden; to produce unexpectedly.

The friends to the cause sprang a new project.

[In lieu of spring the people int he United States generally use start; to start a new project.]

4. To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.

5. To burst; to cause to open; as, to spring a leak. When it is said, a vessel has sprung a leak, the meaning is, the leak has then commenced.

6. To crack; as, to spring a mast or a yard.

7. To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap; as, to spring a trap.

To spring a butt, in seamens language, to loosen the end of a plank in a ships bottom.

To spring the luff, when a vessel yields to the helm, and sails nearer to the wind than before.

To spring a fence, for to leap a fence, is not a phrase used in this country.

To spring an arch, to set off, begin or commence an arch from an abutment or pier.

SPRING, noun

1. A leap; a bound; a jump; as of an animal.

The prisner with a spring from prison broke.

2. A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by its elasticity; as the spring of a bow.

3. Elastic power or force. The soul or the mind requires relaxation, that it may recover its natural spring

Heavns, what a spring was in his arm.

4. An elastic body; a body which, when bent or forced from its natural state, has the power of recovering it; as the spring of a watch or clock.

5. Any active power; that by which action or motion is produced or propagated.

--Like nature letting down the springs of life.

Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move the heros glory--

6. A fountain of water; an issue of water from the earth, or the basin of water at the place of its issue. Springs are temporary or perennial. From springs proceed rivulets, and rivulets united form rivers. Lakes and ponds are usually fed by springs.

7. The place where water usually issues from the earth, though no water is there. Thus we say, a spring is dry.

8. A source; that from which supplies are drawn. The real Christian has in his own breast a perpetual and inexhaustible spring of joy.

The sacred spring whence right and honor stream.

9. Rise; original; as the spring of the day. 1 Samuel 9:26.

10. Cause; original. The springs of great events are often concealed from common observation.

11. The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and rise; the vernal season. This season comprehends the months of March, April and May, in the middle latitudes north of the equator.

12. In seamens language, a crack in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely. [In the sense of leak, I believe it is not used.]

13. A rope passed out of a ships stern and attached to a cable proceeding from her bow, when she is at anchor. It is intended to bring her broadside to bear upon some object. A spring is also a rope extending diagonally from the stern of one ship to the head of another, to make on ship sheer off to a greater distance.

14. A plant; a shoot; a young tree. [Not in use.]

15. A youth. [Not in use.]

16. A hand; a shoulder of pork. [Not in use.]

Spring-Bok

SPRING-BOK, noun An African animal of the antelope kind.

Spring-Halt

SPRING-HALT, noun [spring and halt.] A kind of lameness in which a horse twitches up his legs.

Spring-Head

SPRING-HEAD, noun A fountain or source. [Useless.]

Spring-Tide

SPRING-TIDE, noun [spring and tide.] The tide which happens at or soon after the new and full moon, which rises higher than common tides.

Spring-Wheat

SPRING-WHEAT, noun [spring and wheat.] A species of wheat to be sown in the spring; so called in distinction from winter wheat.

Springal

SPRINGAL, noun A youth. [Not in use.]

Springe

SPRINGE, noun [from spring.] A gin; a noose; which being fastened to an elastic body, is drawn close with a sudden spring, by which means it catches a bird.

SPRINGE, verb transitive To catch in a springe; to ensnare.

Springer

SPRINGER, noun

1. One who springs; one that rouses game.

2. A name given to the grampus.

3. In architecture, the rib of a groin or concentrated vault.

Springiness

SPRINGINESS, noun [from springy.]

1. Elasticity; also, the power of springing.

2. The state of abounding with springs; wetness; spunginess; as of land.

Springing

SPRINGING, participle present tense Arising; shooting up; leaping; proceeding; rousing.

Sprining use, in law, a contingent use; a use which may arise upon a contingency.

SPRINGING, noun

1. The act or process of leaping, arising, issuing or proceeding.

2. Growth; increase. Psalms 65:10.

3. In building, the side of an arch contiguous to the part on which it rests.

Springle

SPRINGLE, noun A springe; a noose. [Not in use.]

Springy

SPRINGY, adjective [from spring.]

1. Elastic; possessing the power of recovering itself when bent or twisted.

2. Having great elastic power.

3. Having the power to leap; able to leap far.

4. Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spungy; as springy land.

Sprinkle

SPRINKLE, verb transitive [G., Latin ]

1. To scatter; to disperse; as a liquid or a dry substance composed of fine separable particles; to besprinkle; as, to sprinkle the earth with water; to sprinkle a floor with sand; to sprinkle paper with iron filings.

2. To scatter on; to disperse on in small drops or particles; to besprinkle; as, to sprinkle the earth with water; to sprinkle a floor with sand; to sprinkle paper with iron filings.

3. To wash; to cleanse; to purify.

Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. Hebrews 10:22.

SPRINKLE, verb transitive

1. To perform the act of scattering a liquid or any fine substance, so that it may fall in small particles.

The priest shall sprinkle of the oil with his fingers. Leviticus 14:7.

Baptism may well enough be performed by sprinkling or effusion of water.

2. To rain moderately; as it sprinkles.

SPRINKLE, noun A small quantity scattered; also, an utensil for sprinkling.

Sprinkled

SPRINKLED, participle passive

1. Dispersed in small particles, as a liquid or as dust.

2. Having a liquid or a fine substance scattered over.

Sprinkler

SPRINKLER , noun One that sprinkles.

Sprinkling

SPRINKLING, participle present tense

1. Dispersing, as a liquid or as dust.

2. Scattering on, in fine drops or particles.

SPRINKLING, noun

1. The act of scattering in small drops or parcels.

2. A small quantity falling in distinct drops or parts, or coming moderately; as a sprinkling of rain or snow.

Sprit

SPRIT, verb transitive [G.] To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spirt. [Not in use. See Spurt.]

SPRIT, noun

1. A shoot; a sprout.

2. A small boom, pole or spar which crosses the sail of a boat diagonally from the mast to the upper aftmost corner, which it is used to extend and elevate.

Sprit-Sail

SPRIT-SAIL, noun [sprit and sail.]

1. The sail extended by a sprit.

2. A sail attached to a yard which hangs under the bowsprit.

Sprite

SPRITE, noun A spirit.

Spriteful

SPRITEFUL. [See Sprightful.]

Spritefully

SPRITEFULLY. [See Sprightfully.]

Spriteliness

SPRITELINESS. [See Sprightliness.]

Spritely

SPRITELY. [See Sprightly.]

Sprod

SPROD, noun A salmon in its second year.

Sprong

SPRONG, old preterit tense of spring. [Not in use.]

Sprout

SPROUT, verb intransitive [G.]

1. To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots. A grain that sprouts in ordinary temperature in ten days, may by an augmentation of heat be made to sprout in forty eight hours. The stumps of trees often sprout and produce a new forest. Potatoes will sprout and produce a crop, although pared and deprived all their buds or eyes.

2. To shoot into ramifications.

Vitriol is apt to sprout with moisture.

3. To grow, like shoots of plants.

And on the ashes sprouting plumes appear.

SPROUT, noun

1. The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed or from the stump or from the root of a plant or tree. The sprouts of the cane, in Jamaica are called ratoons.

2. A shoot from the end of a branch. The young shoots of shrubs are called sprouts, and in the forest often furnish browse of cattle.

Sprouts

SPROUTS, noun plural Young coleworts.

Spruce

SPRUCE, adjective Nice; trim; neat without elegance or dignity; formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now applied to persons only.

He is so spruce that he never can be genteel.

SPRUCE, verb transitive To trim; to dress with great neatness.

SPRUCE, verb intransitive To dress ones self with affected neatness.

SPRUCE, noun The fir-tree; a name given to a species of evergreen, the Pinus nigra, which is used in families to give flavor to beer. It is used by way of decoction, or in the essence.

Spruce-Beer

SPRUCE-BEER, noun A kind of beer which is tinctured with spruce, either by means of the essence or by decoction.

Sprucely

SPRUCELY, adverb With extreme or affected neatness.

Spruceness

SPRUCENESS, noun Neatness without taste or elegance; trimness; fineness; quaintness.

Sprue

SPRUE, noun

1. A matter formed in the mouth in certain diseases.

2. In Scotland, that which is thrown off in casting metals; scoria.

Sprug

SPRUG, verb transitive To make smart. [Not in use.]

Sprung

SPRUNG, preterit tense and participle passive of spring. The man sprung over the ditch; the mast is sprung; a hero sprung from a race of kings.

Sprunt

SPRUNT, verb intransitive To spring up; to germinate; to spring forward. [Not in use.]

Spruntly

SPRUNTLY, adverb Vigorously; youthfully; like a young man. [Not in use.]

Spry

SPRY, adjective Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active; vigorous. [This word is in common use in New England, and is doubtless a contraction of sprig. See Sprightly.]

Spud

SPUD, noun

1. A short knife. [Little used.]

2. Any short thing; in contempt.

3. A tool of the fork kind, used by farmers.

SPUD, verb transitive To dig or loosen the earth with a spud [Local.]

Spume

SPUME, noun [Latin] Froth; foam; scum; frothy matter raised on liquors or fluid substances by boiling, effervescence or agitation.

SPUME, verb intransitive To froth; to foam.

Spumescence

SPUMESCENCE, noun Frothiness; the state of foaming.

Spumous

SPUMOUS, SPUMY, adjective [Latin] Consisting of froth or scum; foamy.

Spumy

SPUMOUS, SPUMY adjective [Latin] Consisting of froth or scum; foamy.

The SPUMY waves proclaim the watry war.

The spumous and florid state of the blood.

Spun

SPUN, preterit tense and participle passive of spin.

Spun-Hay

SPUN-HAY, noun Hay twisted into ropes for convenient carriage on a military expedition.

Spun-Yarn

SPUN-YARN, noun Among seamen, a line or cord formed of two or three rope yarns twisted.

Spunge

SPUNGE, noun [Latin , Gr.]

1. A porous marine substance, found adhering to rocks, shells, etc. Under water, and on rocks about the shore at low water. It is generally supposed to be of animal origin, and consists of a fibrous reticulated substance, covered by a soft gelatinous matter, but in which no polypes have hitherto been observed. It is so porous as to imbibe a great quantity of water, and is used for various purposes in the arts and in surgery.

2. In gunnery, an instrument for cleaning cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with lamb skin. For small guns, it is commonly fixed to one end of the handle of the rammer.

3. In the manege, the extremity or point of a horse-shoe, answering to the heel.

Pyrotechnical spunge is made of mushrooms or fungi, growing on old oaks, ash, fir, etc. which are boiled in water, dried and beaten, then put in a strong lye prepared with saltpeter, and again dried in an oven. This makes the black match or tinder brought from Germany.

SPUNGE, verb transitive

1. To wipe with a wet spunge; as, to spunge a slate.

2. To wipe out with a spunge as letters or writing.

3. To cleanse with a spunge; as, to spunge a cannon.

4. To wipe out completely; to extinguish or destroy.

SPUNGE, verb intransitive

1. To suck in or imbibe, as a spunge

2. To gain by mean arts, by intrusion or hanging on; as an idler who spunges on his neighbor.

Spunged

SPUNGED, participle passive Wiped with a spunge; wiped out; extinguished.

Spunger

SPUNGER, noun One who uses a spunge; a hanger on.

Spungiform

SPUNGIFORM, adjective [spunge and form.] Resembling a spunge; soft and porous; porous.

Spunginess

SPUNGINESS, noun The quality or state of being spungy, or porous like spunge.

Spunging-House

SPUNGING-HOUSE, noun A bailiffs house to put debtors in.

Spungious

SPUNGIOUS, adjective Full of small cavities, like a spunge; as spungious bones.

Spungy

SPUNGY, adjective

1. Soft and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as a spungy excrescence; spungy earth; spungy cake; the spungy substance of the lungs.

2. Full of small cavities; as spungy bones.

3. Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like spunge.

4. Having the quality of imbibing fluids.

Spunk

SPUNK, noun [probably from punk.]

1. Touchwood; wood that readily takes fire. Hence,

2. Vulgarly, an inflammable temper; spirit; as a man of spunk Ill natured observations touched his spunk [Low.]

Spur

SPUR, noun

1. An instrument having a rowel or little wheel with sharp points, worn on horsemens heels, to prick the horses for hastening their pace.

Girt with rusty sword and spur

Hence, to set spurs to a horse, is to prick him and put him upon a run.

2. Incitement; instigation. The love of glory is the spur to heroic deeds.

3. The largest or principal root of a tree; hence perhaps, the short wooden buttress of a post; [that is, in both cases, a shoot.]

4. The hard pointed projection on a cocks leg, which serves as an instrument of defense and annoyance.

5. Something that projects; a snag.

6. In America, a mountain that shoots from any other mountain or range of mountains, and extends to some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.

7. That which excites. We say, upon the spur of the occasion; that is, the circumstances or emergency which calls for immediate action.

8. A sea swallow.

9. The hinder part of the nectary in certain flowers, shaped like a cocks spur

10. A morbid shoot or excrescence in grain, particularly in rye.

11. In old fortifications, a wall that crosses a part of the rampart and joins to the town wall.

SPUR, verb transitive

1. To prick with spurs; to incite to a more hasty pace; as, to spur a horse.

2. To incite; to instigate; to urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object. Some men are spurred to action by the love of glory, others by the love of power. Let affection spur us to social and domestic duties.

3. To impel; to drive.

Love will not be spurrd to what it lothes.

4. To put spurs on.

SPURs of the beams, in a ship, are curving timbers, serving as half beams to support the deck, where whole beams cannot be used.

SPUR, verb intransitive

1. To travel with great expedition.

The Parthians shall be there, and spurring from the fight, confess their fear. [Unusual.]

2. To press forward.

Some bold men--by spurring on, refine themselves.

Spur-Royal

SPUR-ROYAL, noun A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV. IN the reign of James I. its value was fifteen shillings. Sometimes written spur-rial or ryal.

Spurgall

SPURGALL, verb transitive [spur and gall.] To gall or wound with a spur.

SPURGALL, noun A place galled or excoriated by much using of the spur.

Spurgalled

SPURGALLED, participle passive Galled or hurt by a spur; as a spurgalled hackney.

Spurge

SPURGE, noun [Latin] A plant of the genus Euphorbia.

Spurge-Flax

SPURGE-FLAX, noun A plant. [Latin]

Spurge-Laurel

SPURGE-LAUREL, noun The Daphne laureola, a shrub, a native of Europe.

Spurge-Olive

SPURGE-OLIVE, noun Mezereon, a shrub of the genus Daphne.

Spurge-Wort

SPURGE-WORT, noun A plant. [Latin]

Spurging

SPURGING, for purging, not in use.

Spurious

SPURIOUS, adjective [Latin]

1. Not genuine; not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; counterfeit; false; adulterate. spurious writings are such as are not composed by the authors to whom they are ascribed. spurious drugs are common. The reformed churches reject spurious ceremonies and traditions.

2. Not legitimate; bastard; as spurious issue. By the laws of England, one begotten and born out of lawful matrimony, is a spurious child.

SPURIOUS disease, a disease not of the genuine type, but bearing a resemblance in its symptoms.

Spuriously

SPURIOUSLY, adverb Counterfeitly; falsely.

Spuriousness

SPURIOUSNESS, noun

1. The state or quality of being counterfeit, false or not genuine; as the spuriousness of drugs, of coin or of writings.

2. Illegitimacy; the state of being bastard, or not of legitimate birth; as the spuriousness of issue.

Spurling

SPURLING, noun A small sea fish.

Spurling-Line

SPURLING-LINE, noun Among seamen, the line which forms the communication between the wheel and the tell-tale.

Spurn

SPURN, verb transitive [Latin , spur, kicking.]

1. To kick; to drive back or away, as with the foot.

2. To reject with disdain; to scorn to receive or accept. What multitudes of rational beings spurn the offers of eternal happiness!

3. To treat with contempt.

SPURN, verb intransitive

1. To manifest disdain in rejecting any thing; as, to spurn at the gracious offers of pardon.

2. To make contemptuous opposition; to manifest disdain in resistance.

Nay more, to spurn at your most royal image.

3. To kick or toss up the heels.

The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns.

SPURN, noun Disdainful rejection; contemptuous treatment.

The insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes.

Spurn-Water

SPURN-WATER, In ships, a channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.

Spurned

SPURNED, participle passive Rejected with disdain; treated with contempt.

Spurner

SPURNER, noun One who spurns.

Spurney

SPURNEY, noun A plant.

Spurning

SPURNING, participle present tense Rejecting with contempt.

Spurre

SPURRE, noun A name of the sea swallow.

Spurred

SPURRED, participle passive

1. Furnished with spurs.

2. adjective Wearing spurs, or having shoots like spurs.

Spurrer

SPURRER, noun One who uses spurs.

Spurrier

SPURRIER, noun One whose occupation is to make spurs.

Spurry

SPURRY, noun A plant of the genus Spergula.

Spurt

SPURT, verb transitive [The English word has suffered a transposition of letters. It is from the root of sprout, which see.] To throw out, as liquid in a stream; to drive or force out with violence, as a liquid from a pipe or small orifice; as, to spurt water from the mouth, or other liquid from a tube.

SPURT, verb intransitive To gush or issue out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream.

Then the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, spurts in the gardners eyes who turns the cock.

SPURT, noun

1. A sudden or violent ejection or gushing of a liquid substance from a tube, orifice or other confined place; a jet.

2. A sudden or short occasion or exigency; sudden effort. [Vulgar.]

Spurtle

SPURTLE, verb transitive [from spurt.] To shoot in a scattering manner. [Little used.]

Spurway

SPURWAY, noun [spur and way.] A horse path; a narrow way; a bridle road; a way for a single beast. [Not used in the United States.]

Sputation

SPUTATION, noun [Latin , to spit.] The act of spitting. [Not used.]

Sputative

SPUTATIVE, adjective [supra.] Spitting much; inclined to spit. [Not used.]

Sputter

SPUTTER, verb intransitive [Latin , to spit. It belongs to the root of spout and spit; of the latter it seems to be a diminutive.]

1. To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small or scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.

2. To throw out moisture in small detached parts; as green wood sputtering in the flame.

3. To fly off in small particles with some crackling or noise.

When sparkling lamps their sputtering lights advance.

4. To utter words hastily and indistinctly; literally, to spout small; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.

They could neither of them speak their rage, and so they fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples.

SPUTTER, verb transitive To throw out with haste and noise; to utter with indistinctness.

In the midst of caresses--to sputter out the basest accusations.

SPUTTER, noun Moist matter thrown out in small particles.

Sputtered

SPUTTERED, participle passive Thrown out in small portions, as liquids; uttered with haste and indistinctness, as words.

Sputterer

SPUTTERER, noun One that sputters.

Sputtering

SPUTTERING, participle present tense Emitting in small particles; uttering rapidly and indistinctly; speaking hastily; spouting.

Spy

SPY, noun

1. A person sent into an enemys camp to inspect their works, ascertain their works, ascertain their strength and their intentions, to watch their movements, and secretly communicate intelligence to the proper officer. By the laws of war among all civilized nations, a spy is subjected to capital punishment.

2. A person deputed to watch the conduct of others.

3. One who watches the conduct of others.

These wretched spies of wit.

SPY, verb transitive

1. To see; to gain sight of; to discover at a distance, or in a state of concealment. It is the same as espy; as, to spy land from the mast head of a ship.

As tiger spied two gentle fawns.

One in reading skipped over all sentences where he spied a note of admiration.

2. To discover by close search or examination; as, a lawyer in examining the pleadings in a case, spies a defect.

3. To explore; to view, inspect and examine secretly; as a country; usually with out.

Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof. Numbers 21:32.

SPY, verb intransitive To search narrowly; to scrutinize.

It is my natures plague to spy into abuse.

Spy-Boat

SPY-BOAT, noun [spy and boat.] A boat sent to make discoveries and bring intelligence.

Spy-Glass

SPY-GLASS, noun The popular name of a small telescope, useful in viewing distant objects.

Squab

SQUAB, adjective [G., plump, sleek; to be plump or sleek, and to vibrate.]

1. Fat; thick; plump; bulky.

Nor the squab daughter, nor the wife were nice.

2. Unfledged; unfethered; as a squab pigeon.

SQUAB, noun

1. A young pigeon or dove. [This word is in common or general use in America, and almost the only sense in which it is used is the one here given. It is sometimes used in the sense of fat, plump.]

2. A kind of sofa or couch; a stuffed cushion. [Not used in America.]

SQUAB, adverb Striking at once; with a heavy fall; plump.

The eagle dropped the tortoise squab upon a rock. [Low and not used.]

[The vulgar word awhap or whop, is used in a like sense in America. It is found in Chaucer.]

SQUAB, verb intransitive To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke. [Not used.]

Squab-Pie

SQUAB-PIE, noun [squab and pie.] A pie made of squabs or young pigeons.

Squabbish

SQUABBISH, SQUABBY, adjective Thick; fat; heavy.

Squabble

SQUABBLE, verb intransitive [I know not the origin of this word, but it seems to be from the root of wabble; G., to vibrate, to quake, to be sleek. See Squab.]

1. To contend for superiority; to scuffle; to struggle; as, two persons squabble in sport.

2. To contend; to wrangle; to quarrel.

3. To debate peevishly; to dispute. If there must be disputes, it is less criminal to squabble than to murder.

[Squabble is not an elegant word in any of its uses. In some of them it is low.]

SQUABBLE, noun A scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl; a petty quarrel.

Squabbler

SQUABBLER, noun A contentious person; a brawler.

Squabbling

SQUABBLING, participle present tense Scuffling; contending; wrangling.

Squabby

SQUABBISH, SQUABBY adjective Thick; fat; heavy.

Squad

SQUAD, noun A company of armed men; a party learning military exercise; any small party.

Squadron

SQUADRON, noun [Latin , to square; four.]

1. In its primary sense, a square or square form; and hence, a square body of troops; a body drawn up in a square. So Milton has used the word.

Those half rounding guards just met, and closing stood in squadron joind.

[This sense is probably obsolete, unless in poetry.]

2. A body of troops, infantry or cavalry, indefinite in number.

3. A division of a fleet; a detachment of ships of war, employed on a particular expedition; or one third part of a naval armament.

Squadroned

SQUADRONED, adjective Formed into squadrons or squares.

Squalid

SQUALID, adjective [Latin , to be foul.] Foul; filthy; extremely dirty.

Uncombd his locks, and squalid his attire.

Squalidness

SQUALIDNESS, noun Foulness; filthiness.

Squall

SQUALL, verb intransitive To cry out; to scream or cry violently; as a woman frightened, or a child in anger or distress; a, the infant squalled.

SQUALL, noun

1. A loud scream; a harsh cry.

2. A sudden gust of violent wind.

Squaller

SQUALLER, noun A screamer; one that cries loud.

Squalling

SQUALLING, participle present tense Crying out harshly; screaming.

Squally

SQUALLY, adjective

1. Abounding with squalls disturbed often with sudden and violent gust of wind; as squally weather.

2. In agriculture, broken into detached pieces; interrupted by unproductive spots. [Local.]

Squalor

SQUALOR, noun [Latin] Foulness; filthiness; coarseness.

Squamiform

SQUAMIFORM, adjective [Latin , a scale, and form.] Having the form or shape of scales.

Squamigerous

SQUAMIGEROUS, adjective [Latin , to bear.] Bearing or having scales.

Squamous

SQUAMOUS, adjective [Latin] Scaly; covered with scales; as the squamous cones of the pine.

Squander

SQUANDER, verb transitive [G., to turn.]

1. To spend lavishly or profusely; to spend prodigally; to dissipate; to waste without economy or judgment; as, to squander an estate.

They often squanderd, but they never gave.

The crime of squandering health is equal to the folly.

2. To scatter; to disperse.

Our squanderd troops he rallies.

[In this application not now used.]

Squandered

SQUANDERED, participle passive Spent lavishly and without necessity or use; wasted; dissipated, as property.

Squanderer

SQUANDERER, noun One who spends his money prodigally, without necessity or use; a spendthrift; a prodigal; a waster; a lavisher.

Squandering

SQUANDERING, participle present tense Spending lavishly; wasting.

Square

SQUARE, adjective [Gr.]

1. Having four equal sides and four right angles; as a square room; a square figure.

2. Forming a right angle; as an instrument for striking lines square

3. Parallel; exactly suitable; true.

Shes a most triumphant lady, if report be square to her. [Unusual.]

4. Having a straight front, or a frame formed with straight lines; not curving; as a man of a square frame; a square built man.

5. That does equal justice; exact; fair; honest; as square dealing.

6. Even; leaving no balance. Let us make or leave the accounts square

Three square five square having three or five equal sides, etc.; an abusive use of square

SQUARE root, in geometry and arithmetic. The square root of a quantity or number is that which, multiplied by itself, produces the square Thus 7 is the square root of 49, for 7 times 7 = 49.

In seamens language, the yards are square when they are arranged at right angles with the mast or the keel. The yards and sails are said also to be square when they are of greater extent than usual.

SQUARE, noun

1. A figure having four equal sides and four right angles.

2. An area of four sides, with houses on each side.

The statue of Alexander VII. stands in the large square of the town.

3. The content of the side of a figure squared.

4. An instrument among mechanics by which they form right angles, or otherwise measure angles.

5. Im geometry and arithmetic, a square or square number is the product of a number multiplied by itself. Thus 64 is the square of 8, for 8 times 8 = 64.

6. Rule; regularity; exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct.

They of Galatia much more out of square

I have not kept my square [Not in use.]

7. A square body of troops; a squadron; as the brave square of war. [Not in use.]

8. A quaternion; four. [Not in use.]

9. Level; equality.

We live not on the square with such as these.

10. In astrology, quartile; the position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other.

11. Rule; conformity; accord. I shall break no squares with another for a trifle.

SQUAREs go. Let us see how the squares go, that is, how the game proceeds; a phrase taken from the game of chess, the chess board being formed with squares.

SQUARE, verb transitive

1. To form with four equal sides and four right angles.

2. To reduce to a square; to form to right angles; as, to square masons work.

3. To reduce to any given measure or standard.

4, To adjust; to regulate; to mold; to shape; as, to square our actions by the opinions of others; to square our lives by the precepts of the gospel.

5. To accommodate; to fit; as, square my trial to my strength.

6. To respect in quartile.

7. To make even, so as to leave no difference or balance; as, to square accounts; a popular phrase.

8. In arithmetic, to multiply a number by itself; as, to square the number.

9. In seamens language, to square the yards, is to place them at right angles with the mast or keel.

SQUARE, verb intransitive

1. To suit; to fit; to quadrate; to accord or agree. His opinions do not square with the doctrines of philosophers.

2. To quarrel; to go to opposite sides.

Are you such fools to square for this? [Not in use.]

Square-Rigged

SQUARE-RIGGED, adjective In seamens language, a vessel is square-rigged when her principal sails are extended by yards suspended by the middle, and not by stays, gaffs, booms and lateen yards. Thus a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.

Square-Sail

SQUARE-SAIL, noun In seamens language, a sail extended to a yard suspended by the middle.

Squareness

SQUARENESS, noun The state of being square; as an instrument to try the squareness of work.

Squarish

SQUARISH, adjective Nearly square.

Squarrous

SQUARROUS, adjective [Gr., scurf.] In botany, scurfy or ragged, or full of scales; rough; jagged. A squarrous calyx consists of scales very sidely divaricating; a squarrous leaf is divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it.

Squash

SQUASH, verb transitive [Latin] To crush; to beat or press into pulp or a flat mass.

SQUASH, noun

1. Someting soft an deasily crushed.

2. [Gr.] A plant of the genus Cucurbita, and its fruit; a culinary vegetable.

3. Something unripe or soft; in contempt.

This squash this gentleman.

4. A sudden fall of a heavy soft body.

5. A shock of soft bodies.

My fall was stoppd by a terrible squash [Vulgar.]

Squat

SQUAT, verb intransitive

1. To sit down upon the hams or heels; as a human being.

2. To sit close to the ground; to cower; as an animal.

3. In Massachusetts and some other states of America, to settle on anothers land without pretense of title; a practice very common in the wilderness.

SQUAT, verb transitive To bruise or make flat by a fall. [Not in use.]

SQUAT, adjective

1. Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering.

Him there they found, squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.

2. Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting.

The head of the squill insect is broad and squat

SQUAT, noun

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

2. A sudden or crushing fall. [Not in use.]

3. A sort of mineral.

Squatt

SQUATT, noun Among miners, a bed of ore extending but a little distance.

Squatter

SQUATTER, noun

1. One that squats or sits close.

2. In the United States, one that settles on new land without a title.

Squeak

SQUEAK, verb transitive [G., to squeak This word probably belongs to the family of quack.]

1. To utter a sharp shrill cry, usually of short duration; to cry with an acute tone, as an animal; or to make a sharp noise, as a pipe or quill, a wheel, a door and the like. Wheels squeak only when the axle tree is dry.

Who can endure to hear one of the rough old Romans, squeaking through the mouth of an eunuch?

Zoilus calls the companions of Ulysses, the squeaking pigs of Homer.

2. To break silence or secrecy for fear or pain; to speak.

SQUEAK, noun A sharp shrill sound suddenly uttered, either of the human voice or of any animal or instrument, such as a child utters in acute pain, or as pigs utter, or as is made by carriage wheels when dry, or by a pipe or reed.

Squeaker

SQUEAKER, noun One that utters a sharp shrill sound.

Squeaking

SQUEAKING, participle present tense Crying with a sharp voice; making a sharp sound; as a squeaking wheel.

Squeal

SQUEAL, verb intransitive [See Squall.] To cry with a sharp shrill voice. It is used of animals only, and chiefly of swine. It agrees in sense with squeak, except that squeal denotes a more continues cry than squeak, and the latter is not limited to animals. We say, a squealing hog or pig, a squealing child; but more generally a squalling child.

Squealing

SQUEALING, participle present tense Uttering a sharp shrill sound or voice; as a squealing pig.

Squeamish

SQUEAMISH, adjective [probably from the root of wamble.] Literally, having a stomach that is easily turned, or that readily nauseates any thing; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling improprieties; scrupulous.

Quoth he, that honors very squeamish that takes a basting for a blemish.

His muse is rustic, and perhaps too plain the men of squeamish taste to entertain.

Squeamishly

SQUEAMISHLY, adverb IN a fastidious manner; with too much niceness.

Squeamishness

SQUEAMISHNESS, noun Excessive niceness; vicious delicacy of taste; fastidiousness; excessive scrupulousness.

The thorough-paced politician must presently laugh at the squeamishness of his conscience.

Squeasiness

SQUEASINESS, noun Nausea. [Not used.] [See Queasiness.]

Squeasy

SQUEASY, adjective Queasy; nice; squeamish; scrupulous. [Not used.] [ See Queasy.]

Squeeze

SQUEEZE, verb transitive

1. To press between two bodies; to press closely; as, to squeeze an orange the fingers or with an instrument; to squeeze the hand in friendship.

2. To oppress with hardships, burdens and taxes; to harass; to crush.

In a civil war, people must expect to be squeezed with the burden.

3. To hug; to embrace closely.

4. To force between close bodies; to compel or cause to pass; as, to squeeze water through felt.

To squeeze out, to force out by pressure, as a liquid.

SQUEEZE, verb intransitive

1. To press; to urge ones way; to pass by pressing; as, to squeeze hard to get through a crowd.

2. To crowd.

To squeeze through, to pass through by pressing and urging forward.

SQUEEZE, noun

1. Pressure; compression between bodies.

2. A close hug or embrace.

Squeezed

SQUEEZED, participle passive Pressed between bodies; compressed; oppressed.

Squeezing

SQUEEZING, participle present tense Pressing; compressing; crowding; oppressing.

SQUEEZING, noun

1. The act of pressing; compression; oppression.

2. That which is forced out by pressure; dregs.

The dregs and squeezings of the brain.

Squelch

SQUELCH, SQUELSH, verb transitive To crush. [A low word and not used.]

Squelsh

SQUELCH, SQUELSH verb transitive To crush. [A low word and not used.]

SQUELCH, noun A heavy fall. [Low and not used.]

Squib

SQUIB, noun [This word probably belongs to the family of whip; denoting that which is thrown.]

1. A little pipe or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter and sent into the air, burning and bursting with a crack; a cracker.

Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze.

The making and selling of squibs is punishable.

2. A sarcastic speech or little censorious writing published; a petty lampoon.

3. A pretty fellow. [Not in use.]

The squibs, in the common phrase, are called libellers.

SQUIB, verb intransitive To throw squibs; to utter sarcastic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, two members of a society squib a little in debate. [Colloquial.]

Squibbing

SQUIBBING, participle present tense Throwing squibs or severe reflections.

Squill

SQUILL, noun [Latin , a squill a lobster or prawn.]

1. A plant of the genus Scilla. It has a large acrid bulbous root like an onion, which is used in medicine.

2. A fish, or rather a crustaceous animal, of the genus Cancer.

3. An insect, called squill insect form its resemblance to the fish, having a long body covered with a crust, the head broad and squat.

Squinancy

SQUINANCY, noun The quinsy, which see. [Squinancy is not used.]

Squint

SQUINT, adjective

1. Looking obliquely; having the optic axes directed to different objects.

2. Looking with suspicion.

SQUINT, verb intransitive

1. To see obliquely.

Some can squint when they will.

2. To have the axes of the eyes directed to different objects.

3. To slope; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.

SQUINT, verb transitive

1. To turn the eye to an oblique position; to look indirectly; as, to squint an eye.

2. To form the eye to oblique vision.

He gives the web and the pin, squints the eye, and make the hare-lip.

Squint-Eyed

SQUINT-EYED, adjective

1. Having eyes that squint; having oblique vision.

2. Oblique; indirect; malignant; as squint-eyed praise.

3. Looking obliquely or by side glances; as squint-eyed jealousy or envy.

Squintifego

SQUINTIFEGO, noun Squinting. [A cant word and not to be used.]

Squinting

SQUINTING, participle present tense Seeing or looking obliquely; looking by side glances.

SQUINTING, noun The act or habit of looking obliquely.

Squintingly

SQUINTINGLY, adverb With an oblique look; by side glances.

Squiny

SQUINY, verb intransitive To look squint. [A cant word not to be used.]

Squir

SQUIR, verb transitive To throw; to thrust; to drive.

Squire

SQUIRE, noun [a popular contraction of esquire. See Esquire.]

1. In Great Britain, the title of a gentleman next in rank to a knight.

2. In Great Britain, an attendant on a noble warrior.

3. An attendant at court.

4. In the United States, the title of magistrates and lawyers. In New-England, it is particularly given to justices of the peace and judges.

5. The title customarily given to gentlemen.

SQUIRE, verb transitive

1. To attend as a squire

2. In colloquial language, to attend as a beau or gallant for aid and protection; as, to squire a lady to the gardens.

Squirehood

SQUIREHOOD, SQUIRESHIP, noun The rank and state of a squire.

Squirely

SQUIRELY, adjective Becoming a squire.

Squireship

SQUIREHOOD, SQUIRESHIP noun The rank and state of a squire.

Squirrel

SQUIRREL, noun [Latin , Gr., shade, and tail.] A small quadruped of the genus Sciurus, order of Glires, and class Mammalia. The squirrel has two cutting teeth in each jaw, four toes on the fore feet, and five on the hind feet. Several species are enumerated. Among these are the gray, the red, and the black squirrel These animals are remarkably nimble, running up tress and leaping from branch to branch with surprising agility. They subsist on nuts, of which they lay up a store for winter, some of them in hollow trees, others in the earth. Their flesh is delicate food.

SQUIRREL HUNT, noun In America, the hunting and shooting of squirrels by a company of men.

Squirt

SQUIRT, verb transitive To eject or drive out of a narrow pipe or orifice, in a stream; as, to squirt water.

SQUIRT, verb intransitive To throw out words; to let fly. [Not in use.]

SQUIRT, noun

1. An instrument with which a liquid is ejected in a stream with force.

2. A small quick stream.