squeasyt (skwezi)

[Also squeezy; formerly squeazy; a var. of queasy (with intensive s-, as in splash for plash1, squench for quench ): see queasy.] Queasy; qualmish; squeamish; scrupulous. His own nice and squeasy stomach, still weary of his last meal, puts him into a study whether he should eat of his best dish or nothing. Rev. T. Adams, Works, I. 425. The women are few here, squeezy and formal, and little skilled in amusing themselves or other people. Gray, Letters, I. 202. squeege (skwēj), v. and n. A dialectal form of squeeze. Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 530. squeegee (skwējē), n. [A form of squilgee, simulating squeege for squeeze.] 1. Naut., same as squilgee.-2. In photog., a stout strip of soft rubber set longitudinally in a wooden back which serves as a handle, and beyond which the rubber projects. It is used for expre ing moisture from paper prints, for bringing a film into close contact with a gla or mount, etc., and is also made in the form of a roller of soft rubber, much resembling a printers' inking-roller. squeegee (skwējē), v. t. [ A glacé finish may easily be obtained by squeegeeing the washed print on a polished plate of hard rubber. IMG:content-1906.png:[graphic] Sci . Amer ., N. S., LX. 53. squeezability (skwē-za-bil'i-ti), n. [ squeezable (skweʻza-bl), a. [ You are too versatile and too squeezable ; impre ions too readily. . you take Savage , Reuben Medlicott, i. 9. (Davies.) The peace-of-mind-at-any-price disposition of that [Gladstone] Cabinet had rendered it squeezable to any extent. Lowe , Bismarck, II. 230. squeeze (skwēz), v.; pret. and pp. squeezed , ppr. squeezing . [Early mod. E. also squize , squise, E. dial. also squizzen (also perversely squeege); with intensive s-, squeeze squeeze, O Phylax, spare My squeezed Soul, least from herself she start. Loose, loose the Buckle! if the time be come That I must die, at least afford me room. J. Beaumont, Psyche, iii. 206. The people submit quietly when their governor squeezes their purses. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 151. The ingredients for punch were all in readine ; but no one would squeeze the oranges till he came. Fielding, Joseph Andrews, i. 13. 2. To pre in sympathy or affection, or as a silent indication of interest or emotion: as, to squeeze one's hand. He is said to be the first that made love by squeezing the hand. Steele , Spectator, No. 109. With my left hand I took her right - did she squeeze it? I think she did. Thackeray, Fitz-Boodle Papers, Dorothea. 3. To produce or procure by the application of pre ure; expre ; extract: usually with out: as, to squeeze consent from an official. IMG:content-1907.png:[blocks in formation] Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 146. He [Canute] squees'd out of the English, though now his subjects, not his Enemies, 72, some say 82, you sand pound. Milton , Hist. Eng., vi. They can squeeze Bourdeaux out of a sloe, and draw Champagne from an apple. Add is on, Tatler, No. 131. 4. To thrust forcibly; force: with into , or other similar adjunct: as, to squeeze a gown into a box. He [Webster] has not the condensing power of Shakespeare, who squeezed meaning into a phrase with an hydraulic pre . Lowell, Study Windows, p. 318. Schneider had provided himself at the Green land ports with the entire costume of the Eskimo belle, and, being a small man, was able to squeeze himself into the garments. A. W. Greely, Arctic Service, p. 176. 5. To hara or oppre by exactions or the like. The little officers oppre the people; the great officers squeeze them. Pococke , Description of the East, I. 171. IMG:content-1908.png:[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small] 6. To obtain a facsimile impre ion of on paper, by means of water and rubbing or beating. See squeeze, n., 3. But the overhang of the rock makes it extremely dimcult to squeeze satisfactorily. Athenæum , No. 3284, p. 455. Squeezed-in ve el, a ve el of pottery or gla whose forın indicates that it has been pre ed in on opposite sides, as if nipped by the fingers. It is a common form in Roman gla bottles; and many Japanese flasks of stoneware also have this shape. IMG:content-1909.png:[blocks in formation] forms of squirrel. ly pa ing over the sheets with light blows of squerelt, squerrelt, squerrilt, n. Obsolete a stiff brush, so as to force the paper into every inequality. The paper, upon drying, hardens, yielding a perfect and durable negative, or reversed copy, of the original. This method is employed by archæologists for securing faithful transcripts of ancient inscriptions. It is to him that we owe the copies and squeezes of the Nab a the an inscriptions. Contemporary Rev. , LIV. 302. Armed, therefore, with a stock of photographic plates, and with the far more e ential stock of paper for making moulds or squeezes from the stone, I began work on the temples of Thebes. Harper's Mag ., LXXVII. 297. squeezer (skwē'zėr), n. [ cating form is that a movable arm or lever works against a corresponding fixed jaw, the former representing the IMG:content-1910.png:[subsumed][ocr errors][subsumed][ocr errors] a, ridged eccentric casing; b, ridged roller. The ball of metal enters at c, in the direction shown by the arrow, and emerges at c '. hammer, the latter the anvil, of the old method of shingling with the hammer. In the rotary squeezer the puddled ball is brought into shape by being pa ed between a cast-iron cylinder and a cylindrical casing, the former being placed eccentrically within the latter so that the distance between their surfaces gradually diminishes in the direction of the rotation. The ball, being introduced at the widest part of the opening, is carried forward and finally delivered at the narrower end, reduced in size and ready for rolling. (b) In sheet - metal working, a crimping. machine for forcing the tops and covers of tin cans over the cylinders which form the sides of the cans. (c) A lemon-squeezer. 2. pl. A kind of playing-cards in which the face value of each card is shown in the upper left hand corner, and can readily be seen by squeezing the cards slightly apart, without displaying squeezer. - Crocodile squeezer, a peculiar form of squeezthe hand. Alligator squeezer. Same as crocodile er, having a long projecting upper jaw armed with teeth. It is used in the manufacture of iron.