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A scale. [Obs.] "iron squames." Chaucer.

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

Furnished or covered with little scales; squamulose.

Having the shape of a scale.

Bearing scales.

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

Resembling a scale; also, covered with scales; scaly.

Scalelike; squamous; as, the squamosal bone.

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.

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

One of the little hypogynous scales found in the flowers of grasses; a lodicule.

Same as Squamulose.

Same as Squamula.

Having little scales; squamellate; squamulate.

To scatter; to disperse. [Obs.] Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden.

One who squanders.

In a squandering manner.

A parallelogram having four equal sides and four right angles.

lly by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.

Having the toe square. Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. V. Knox.