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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.

To take one's self off; to decamp. [A jocular word. U. S.]

Squatting.

The black-bellied plover, or bullhead (Squatarola helvetica). See Plover.

The black-bellied plover (Squatarola helvetica); -- called also beetlehead.

To squat on its belly and be still; -- a command given by a sportsman to a dog.

Lying down with head erect; squatting.

To stoop by bending the knees; to crouch; to squat; hence, to quail; to sink through fear. Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire. Dryden. Like falcons, cowering on the nest. Goldsmith.

In the phrase on one's hunkers, in a squatting or crouching position. [Scot. & Local, U. S.]

d a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea.

The angel fish (Squatina).

Squat; flat. [Obs.] Shak.

To squat; to ruck. [Obs.] Shak.

To cower; to huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Gower. South. The sheep that rouketh in the fold. Chaucer.

ry swains, and silly swads." Greene. There was one busy fellow was their leader, A blunt, squat swad, but lower than yourself. B. Jonson.

To lie close to the ground, so as to be concealed; to squat; to crouch; hence, to hide one's self. [Written also tappis, tappish, tappice.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] As a hound that, having roused a hart, Although he tappish ne'er so soft. Chapman.

A short, squat woman. [Obs.] Ainsworth.