squash1 (skwosh)

[ Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 'tis a peascod. Shak., T. N., i. 5. 166. 2. Something that has been crushed into a soft ma . It seemed churlish to pa him by without a sign, especially as he took off his squash of a hat to me. Harper's Mag., LXXVIII. 80. 3. A sudden fall of a heavy soft body; a shock of soft bodies. My fall was stopped by a terrible squash, that sounded louder to my ears than the cataract of Niagara. Swift, Gulliver's Travels, ii. 7. Lemon squash. See lemon - squash. squash (skwosh), n. [An ash, squonter - squash, a club-shaped, pear-shaped, or long cylindrical fruit with a glaucus-whitish surface. The other squashes may for practical purposes be divided into summer and winter kinds. Among the latter is the C. maxima, of which the fruit is spheroidal in form and often of great size, sometimes weighing 240 pounds. A variety of this is the crowned or turban squash, whose fruit has a circular projection at the top, the mark of the adherent calyx-tube. Other winter squashes are of moderate size, and commonly either narrowed toward the base into a neck which in the "crook. necks" is curved to one side, or egg-shaped and pointed at the ends, as in the (Boston) marrow, long a standard in America, or the still better Hubbard squash. The winter squash can be preserved through the season. The summer squash has a very short vine, hence sometimes called mer squash has shrine and times called neck or depre ed in form, somewhat hemispherical with green, or and white. Squashes grown in than especially the winter called border colored yellow white, squashes, in continental Europe, and generally in temperate and tropical climates. In Great Britain the only ordinary squash is the vegetable marrow (see marrowl ), or succade gourd. The summer squash is eaten before maturity, prepared by boiling. The winter squash is boiled or roasted; in France and the East it is largely used in soups and ragouts, in America often made into pies. It is also used as food for animals. Landor , Imag. Conv., Southey and Porson, ii. squash-melon (skwosh'melon), n. Same as squash2 . squash-vine (skwosh'vin), n . The squash. See squash2. squashy (skwosh'i), a. [ squash1 + -y1.] Soft and wet; miry; muddy; pulpy; mushy; watery. George Eliot , Mr. Gilfil, xxi. [Colloq.] squatl (skwot), v.; pret. and pp. squatted or squat , ppr. squatting . [ squatten , sqwatten , esquatir , pre down, lay flat, crush, es- ( ex- ) + quatir , quattir , pre down, = It. quattare, lie close, squat, coact are , pre together, constrain, force: see quat1 , and cf. squash1.] I. trans. 1. To lay flat; flatten; crush; bruise. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] The foundementis of hill is ben togidir smyten and squat . Wyclif , 2 Ki. [2 Sam.] xxii. 8. And you take me so near the net again, I'll give you leave to squat me. Middle ton, No Wit like a Woman's, i. 3. 2. To compre . Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.]-3. To make quiet. Compare squatting - pill. [Prov. Eng.]-4ł. To quash; annul. Swi or Black-bellied Plover ( Squatarola helvetica), in full plumage. larger and stouter, and may be distinguished at a glance by the small though evident hind toe, no trace of which appears in any species of Charadrius proper. squat a role, squaterole (skwat'a-rōl, -e-rol), n. [