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A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly. Thackeray.

In a square form or manner.

The quality of being square; as, an instrument to try the squareness of work.

One who, or that which, squares.

Nearly square. Pennant.

Ragged or full of lose scales or projecting parts; rough; jagged; as:

Having the teeth bent out of the plane of the lamina; -- said of a leaf.

Squarrose.

Somewhat squarrose; slightly squarrose. Gray.

, an unripe pod of pease. Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is a peascod. Shak.

One who, or that which, squashes.

The quality or state of being squashy, or soft.

Easily squashed; soft.

The angel fish (Squatina angelus

The black-bellied plover.

One who squats; specifically, one who settles unlawfully upon land without a title. In the United States and Australia the term is sometimes applied also to a person who settles lawfully upon government land under permission and restrictions, before acquiring title. In such a tract, squatters and trespassers were toler…

Squat; dumpy. J. Burroughs.

-- in the language of Indian tribes of the Algonquin family, correlative of sannup. Old squaw. (Zoöl.) See under Old.

A white man who has married an Indian squaw; sometimes, one who has gained tribal rights by such a marriage; -- often a term of contempt. [Western U. S.]

The partridge berry (Mitchella repens).