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To throw sticls at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly. [Prov. Eng.] Southey.

Squeamish. [Obs.]

The suborder of elasmobranch fishes which comprises the sharks.

Dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty. Uncomed his locks, and squalid his attrie. Dryden. Those squalid dens, which are the reproach of large capitals. Macaulay.

The quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness.

In a squalid manner.

Quality or state of being squalid.

dden 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 marke…

One who squalls; a screamer.

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

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

Pertaining to Squalodon.

Like or pertaining to a shark or sharks.

Squalidness; foulness; filthness; squalidity. The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor. Taylor. To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes. Dickens.

An oilskin hat or southwester; -- a fisherman's name. [U. S.]

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

Squamose.

A division of edentates having the body covered with large, imbricated horny scales. It includes the pangolins.

Same as Squamose.

The American eider duck. [Local, U.S.]