squirrel tail, squirrel tail grass

Bot.: Hordeum maritimum . Named from the shape of the flower-spikes. The awns are injurious by their mechanical action to the gums of horses. squirt, *squyrte, v . t . & i . [Sw. dial. skvittär = to sprinkle all round; Icel. skvetta =to squirt out, to throw out; skvettr =a gush of water poured out; Dan. squatte =to splash.] A. Trans .: To eject or throw in a stream out of a narrow orifice or pipe. "To squirt water into that part."-P. Holland: Pliny, bk. viii., ch. xxvii. B. Intransitive : 1. Lit.: To be thrown out or ejected in a stream from a narrow orifice or pipe. *2. Fig.: To throw out words; to prate. "You are so given to squirting up and down, and chattering, that the world would say, I had chosen a jack-pud ding for a prime-minister." -L' Estrange: Fables. squirt, *squyrt, *squyrte, s. [SQUIRT, v .] 1. An instrument with which water or other liquid *squïr-ě , s. [Eng. squir(e); -e .] The wife is ejected in a stream with force; a syringe. of a squire. squîrm, v. t. or i. [Perhaps a form of swarm (q. v.).] 1. To move like a worm or eel; to writhe about. 2. To climb by embracing and clinging with the hands and feet. squirm, s. [SQUIRM, v.] 1. Ord. Lang.: A wriggling motion, as of an eel. 2. Naut.: A twist in a rope. squirr, v. t. [SQUIR.]