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An unfledged bird; hence, something immature or unfinished. Ford.

Liable to melt, grow soft, or become fluid. [Obs.] Harvey.

The quality or condition of being equable; evenness or uniformity; as, equability of temperature; the equability of the mind. For the celestial bodies, the equability and constancy of their motions argue them ordained by wisdom. Ray.

at different times; -- said of motion, and the like; uniform in surface; smooth; as, an equable plain or globe.

Quality or state of being equable.

In an equable manner.

Unequable. [R.] Bailey.

Capable of being melted.

Fat; thick; plump; bulky. Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice. Betterton.

A young chicken before it is fully fledged. [Prov. Eng.]

To crush; to quash; to squash. [Colloq. or Slang, Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Thick; fat; heavy.

ishly; 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.

One who squabbles; a contentious person; a brawler.

Short and thick; suqabbish.

Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.

A squabble; a tumult; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery. [Low] Halliwell.

A wrangle; a squabble; a noisy contest or dispute. [R.] A brangle between him and his neighbor. Swift.

Not variable; equable; uniform; even; as, an equal movement. "An equal temper." Dryden.

Equable; not easily ruffed or disturbed; calm; uniformly self- possessed; as, an even temper.