squaint

An obsolete dialectal form of swain. squalder (skwol'dėr), n. A kind of jelly-fish. See the quotation. I have oftentimes mett with two other entities which see me to bee of a congenerous substance with the a forenamed gellies, both of them to bee found in the salt water. One is flat and round, as broad as a mans pal me, or broader, and as thick as the hand, cleare and transparent, convex on one side and somewhat like the gibbous part of the human liver, on the other side concave with a contrivance like a knott in the very middle thereof, but plainly with circular fibers about the verge or edge of it (where it is growne thin) which suffer manifest constriction and dilatation, which doe promote its natation, which is also perceptible, and by which you may discerne it to advance towards the shore, or recede from it. About us they are generally called squalders , but are indeed evidently fishes, although not described in any Ichthyology I have yet mett with. Dr. R. Robinson , To Sir T. Browne, Dec. 12, 1659 (in [Sir T. Browne's Works, I. 423). squale, n. and v. Sée squail . Squali (skwa'li), n. pl . [NL. (Müller, 1835), pl. of L. squalus , a shark: see Squalus .] In ichth ., a section of elasmobranch i ate fishes, or selachians, having the gill-slits lateral and plural, five, six, or seven in number; the sharks proper, as distinguished from the Raiæ (rays or skates, with ventral gill-slits) and from the Holocephali (chimeras, with gill-slits a single pair). The name has been used for groups of various extent; it is now generally restricted to the plagiostomous fishes with lateral branchial apertures and the pectoral fins regularly curved backward from the base of insertion. The Squali are divided into about 12 families and many genera, the nomenclature of which is by no means fixed. See Selachii and shark1 , and cuts under selachian and dogfish . squalid (skwol'id), a. [ squalid us , foul, filthy, squalere , be stiff, rough, or dry (with squalid anything), esp. be stiff or rough from negli gence or want of care, be foul; cf. Gr. σκέλλειν, be dry (see skelet, skeleton ).] 1. Foul; filthy; extremely dirty: as, a squalid beggar; a squalid house. Uncomb'd his locks, and squalid his attire. Dryden, Pal. and Arc., i. 539. 21. Rough; shaggy. [Rare.] Squalidæ (skwal'i-dē), n. pl. [NL.,