Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 141
Spynace (n.) Alt. of Spyne.
Spyne (n.) (Naut.) See Pinnace, n., 1 (a).
Compare: Pinnace
Pinnace (n.) (Naut.) (a) （大船上之）小艇；輕型供應船 A small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly employed as a tender, or for coast defence; -- called originally, spynace or spyne.
Pinnace (n.) (Naut.) (b) A man-of-war's boat.
Whilst our pinnace anchors in the Downs. -- Shak.
Pinnace (n.) A procuress; a pimp. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Squab (adv.) With a heavy fall; plump. [Vulgar]
The eagle took the tortoise up into the air, and dropped him down, squab, upon a rock. -- L'Estrange.
Squab (a.) 胖的 Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice. -- Betterton.
Squab (a.) 未長出羽毛的；剛孵出不久的 Unfledged; unfeathered; as, a squab pigeon. -- King.
Squab (n.) (Zool.) 乳鴿 A neatling of a pigeon or other similar bird, esp. when very fat and not fully fledged.
Squab (n.) 矮胖的人 A person of a short, fat figure.
Gorgonious sits abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. -- Cowper.
Squab (n.) A thickly stuffed cushion; especially, one used for the seat of a sofa, couch, or chair; also, a sofa.
Punching the squab of chairs and sofas. -- Dickens.
On her large squab you find her spread. -- Pope.
Squab (v. i.) To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke. [Obs.]
Squab (a.) Short and fat [syn: squab, squabby].
Squab (n.) Flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled [syn: squab, dove].
Squab (n.) A soft padded sofa.
Squab (n.) An unfledged pigeon.
Squabash (v. t.) To crush; to quash; to squash. [Colloq. or Slang, Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott.
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.
The sense of these propositions is very plain, though logicians might squabble a whole day whether they should rank them under negative or affirmative. -- I . Watts.
Syn: To dispute; contend; scuffle; wrangle; quarrel; struggle.
Squabble (v. t.) (Print.) 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.
Squabble (n.) A quarrel about petty points [syn: {bicker}, {bickering}, {spat}, {tiff}, {squabble}, {pettifoggery}, {fuss}].
Squabble (v.) Argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies" [syn: {quibble}, {niggle}, {pettifog}, {bicker}, {squabble}, {brabble}].
Squabbler (n.) One who squabbles; a contentious person; a brawler.
Squabbler (n.) Someone who quarrels about a small matter.
Squabby (a.) Short and thick; suqabbish.
Squabby (a.) Short and fat [syn: squab, squabby].
Squab-chick (n.) (Zool.) A young chicken before it is fully fledged. [Prov. Eng.]
Squaccos (n. pl. ) of Squacco.
Squacco (n.) (Zool.) A heron
({Ardea comata) found in Asia, Northern Africa, and
Squad (n.) (Mil.) A small party of men assembled for drill, inspection, or other purposes.
Squad (n.) Hence, any small party.
Squad (n.) Sloppy mud. [Prov. Eng.] -- Tennyson.
Squad (n.) A smallest army unit.
Squad (n.) A cooperative unit (especially in sports) [syn: team, squad].
Squad (n.) A small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime [syn: police squad, squad].
Squadron (n.) Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a body of troops drawn up in a square. [R.]
Those half-rounding quards Just met, and, closing, stood in squadron joined. -- Milton.
Squadron (n.) (Mil.) A body of cavarly comparising two companies or troops, and averging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred men.
Squadron (n.) (Naut.) A detachment of vessels employed on any particular service or station, under the command of the senior officer; as, the North Atlantic Squadron. -- Totten.
Flying squadron, A squadron of observation or practice, that cruises rapidly about from place to place. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Squadron (n.) A cavalry unit consisting of two or more troops and headquarters and supporting arms.
Squadron (n.) An air force unit larger than a flight and smaller than a group.
Squadron (n.) A naval unit that is detached from the fleet for a particular task.
Squadroned (a.) Formed into squadrons, or squares. [R.] -- Milton.
Squail (v. i.) To throw sticks at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly. [Prov. Eng.] -- Southey.
Squaimous (a.) Squeamish. [Obs.]
Squali (n. pl.) (Zool.) The suborder of elasmobranch fishes which comprises the sharks.
Squalid (a.) Dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty.
Uncombed his locks, and squalid his attire. -- Dryden.
Those squalid dens, which are the reproach of large capitals. -- Macaulay.
Squalid (a.) Morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal" [syn: seamy, seedy, sleazy, sordid, squalid].
Squalid (a.) Foul and run-down and repulsive; "a flyblown bar on the edge of town"; "a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town"; "squalid living conditions"; "sordid shantytowns" [syn: flyblown, squalid, sordid].
Squalidity (n.) The quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness.
Squalidly (adv.) In a squalid manner.
Squalidly (adv.) In a sordid or squalid way [syn: sordidly, squalidly].
Squalidness (n.) Quality or state of being squalid.
Squalidness (n.) Sordid dirtiness [syn: sordidness, squalor, squalidness].
Squall (n.) [C] 暴風，颮；【口】麻煩事；騷亂 A sudden violent gust of wind often attended with rain or snow.
The gray skirts of a lifting squall. -- Tennyson.
{Black squall}, A squall attended with dark, heavy clouds.
{Thick squall}, A black squall accompanied by rain, hail, sleet, or snow. -- Totten.
{White squall}, A squall which comes unexpectedly, without being marked in its approach by the clouds. -- Totten.
Squalled (imp. & p. p.) of Squall.
Squalling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squall.
Squall (v. i.) 起風暴，刮颮 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.
There oft are heard the notes of infant woe, The short, thick sob, loud scream, and shriller squall. -- Pope.
Squall (n.) Sudden violent winds; often accompanied by precipitation.
Squall (v.) Make high-pitched, whiney noises [syn: {squall}, {waul}, {wawl}].
Squall (v.) Utter a sudden loud cry; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me" [syn: {shout}, {shout out}, {cry}, {call}, {yell}, {scream}, {holler}, {hollo}, {squall}].
Squall (v.) Blow in a squall; "When it squalls, a prudent sailor reefs his sails".
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.) (Agric.) Interrupted by unproductive spots; -- said of a flied of turnips or grain. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Squally (a.) (Weaving) Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty; -- said of cloth.
Squally (a.) Characterized by short periods of noisy commotion; "a home life that has been extraordinarily squally" [syn: squally, squalling].
Squally (a.) Characterized by brief periods of violent wind or rain; "a grey squally morning".
Squalodon (n.) (Paleon.) A genus of fossil whales belonging to the Phocodontia; -- so called because their are serrated, like a shark's.
Squalodont (a.) (Zool.) Pertaining to Squalodon.
Squaloid (a.) (Zool.) Like or pertaining to a shark or sharks.
Squalor (n.) Squalidness; foulness; filthness; squalidity.
The heterogeneous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor. -- I. Taylor.
To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes. -- Dickens.
Squalor (n.) Sordid dirtiness [syn: sordidness, squalor, squalidness].
Squamae (n. pl. ) of Squama.
Squama (n.) (Med.) A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred consisting of epithelium.
Squamaceous (a.) Squamose.
Squamata (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of edentates having the body covered with large, imbricated horny scales. It includes the pangolins. Squamate
Squamata (n.) Diapsid reptiles: snakes and lizards [syn: Squamata, order Squamata].
Squamate (a.) Alt. of Squamated.
Squamated (a.) Same as Squamose.
Squamduck () The American eider duck.
Squame (n.) A scale. [Obs.] "Iron squames". -- Chaucer.
Squame (n.) (Zool.) The scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean.
Squamellae (n. pl. ) of Squamella.
Squamella (n.) (Bot.) 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.) (Zool.) Bearing scales.
Squamipennes (n. pl. ) of Squamipen.
Squamipen (n.) (Zool.) Any one of a group of fishes having the dorsal and anal fins partially covered with scales.
Note: They are compressed and mostly, bright-colored tropical fishes, belonging to Chaetodon and allied genera.
Many of them are called coral fishes, and angel fishes.
Squamoid (a.) Resembling a scale; also, covered with scales; scaly.
Squamosal (a.) (Anat.) 鱗狀骨的 Scalelike; squamous; as, the squamosal bone.
Squamosal (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone.
Squamosal (n.) 鱗狀骨 The squamous part of the temporal bone, or a bone correspondending to it, under Temporal. Squamose
Squamose (a.) Alt. of Squamous.
Squamous (a.) 有鱗的；鱗狀的 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 (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal.
Squamozygomatic (a.) (Anat.) 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 (n. pl. ) of Squamula.
Squamula (n.) (Bot.) One of the little hypogynous scales found in the flowers of grasses; a lodicule.
Squamulate (a.) Same as Squamulose.
Squamule (n.) (Bot.) Same as Squamula.
Squamule (n.) A minute scale.
Squamulose (a.) Having little scales; squamellate; squamulate.
Squamulose (a.) Covered with tiny scales.
Squandered (imp. & p. p.) of Squander.
Squandering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squander.
Squander (v. t.) To scatter; to disperse. [Obs.]
Our squandered troops he rallies. -- Dryden.
Squander (v. t.) 浪費，揮霍 [（+on）] To spend lavishly or profusely; to spend prodigally or wastefully; to use without economy or judgment; to dissipate; as, to squander an estate.
The crime of squandering health is equal to the folly. -- Rambler.
Syn: To spend; expend; waste; scatter; dissipate.
Squander (v. i.) 浪費 To spend lavishly; to be
wasteful.
They often squandered, but they never gave. -- Savage.
Squander (v. i.) To wander at random; to scatter. [R.]
The wise man's folly is anatomized Even by squandering glances of the fool. -- Shak.
Squander (n.) 浪費，揮霍 The act of squandering; waste.
Squander (v.) Spend thoughtlessly; throw away; "He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree" [syn: waste, blow, squander] [ant: conserve, economise, economize, husband].
Squander (v.) Spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" [syn: consume, squander, waste, ware].
Squandered (a.) Not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort" [syn: squandered, wasted].
Compare: Wasted
Wasted (a.) 浪費的；未有效利用的；消耗掉的；荒蕪的 Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being; "otiose lines in a play"; "advice is wasted words"; "a pointless remark"; "a life essentially purposeless"; "senseless violence" [syn: otiose, pointless, purposeless, senseless, superfluous, wasted].
Wasted (a.) Not used to good advantage; "squandered money cannot be replaced"; "a wasted effort" [syn: squandered, wasted].
Wasted (a.) (Of an organ or body part) Diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use; "partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm" [syn: atrophied, wasted, diminished] [ant: enlarged, hypertrophied].
Wasted (a.) Very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted].
Squanderer (n.) One who squanders.
Squanderer (n.) A recklessly extravagant consumer [syn: prodigal, profligate, squanderer].
Squanderingly (adv.) In a squandering manner.
Square (n.) (Geom.) The corner, or angle, of a figure. [Obs.]
Square (n.) (Geom.) A parallelogram having four equal sides and four right angles.
Square (n.) Hence, anything which is square, or nearly so; as:
Square (n.) A square piece or fragment.
He bolted his food down his capacious throat in squares of three inches. -- Sir W. Scott.
Square (n.) A pane of glass.
Square (n.) (Print.) 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.) (Carp.) 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.
The statue of Alexander VII. stands in the large square of the town. -- Addison.
Square (n.) (Mech. & Joinery) 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. [Obs.]
Square (n.) (Arith. & Alg.) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; thus, 64 is the square of 8, for 8 [times] 8 = 64; the square of a + b is a^{2 + 2ab + b^{2.
Square (n.) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule. [Obs.]
They of Galatia [were] much more out of square. -- Hooker.
I have not kept my square. -- Shak.