squawlt

An obsolete spelling of squall2. squaw-man (skwa'man), n. A white man who has married a squaw, and has become more or le identified with the Indians and their mode of life: so called in contempt. [Western U. S.] Nowadays those who live among and intermarry with the Indians are looked down upon by the other frontiersmen, who contemptuously term them squaw -men. T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXVI. 832. squaw-mint (skwa'mint), n. The American pennyroyal, Hedeoma pulegioides . [Rare.] squawroot (skwa'röt), n. 1. A leafle fleshy plant, Conopholis American a , of the Orobancha ceæ , found in the eastern United States. It grows from 3 to 6 inches high, with the thickne of a man's thumb, and is covered with fleshy scales having the flowers in their axils, at length becoming hard. It is more or le root-parasitic, and occurs in clusters among fallen leaves in oakwoods. Also cancer -root. 2. Rarely, the blue cohosh, Caulophyllum thalictroidès.