Squat in a (skwatina)

[NL. (Duméril, 1806, after Aldrovandi), fish, or squat. See cuts under angel - fish and King Edward the second [said]... although S. angelus is the angel-shark, angel-fish, monk- to be reuiued in peace. were squatted in warre, yet notwithstanding they ought 5. To put or set on the buttocks; cause to Stan i hurst, Descrip. of Ireland, iii. (Holinshed's Chron., I.). cower or crouch close to the ground: used reflexively. He... then squatted himself down, with his legs twisted under him. Marryat , Pacha of Many Tales, the Water-Carrier. II. in trans. 1. To sit close to the ground; crouch; cower: said of animals; sit down upon the buttocks with the knees drawn up or with the legs cro ed: said of a human being: as, to squat down on one's hams. The hare now, after having squatted two or three times, and been put up again as often, came still nearer. Budgell , Spectator, No. 116. IMG:content-1901.png:[blocks in formation] from them, call Squashes. Roger Williams, Key to Lang. of America (ed. 1643), xvi. [(Rhode Isl. Soc. Coll.). Squashes, but more truly squontersquashes; a kind of mell on, or rather gourd, Jo elyn, N. E. Rarities (1672), Amer. Antiq. Soc., IV. 193. squash (skwosh), n. [Abbr. of musquash (like coon from racoon, or po um from opo um ). ] The musquash or muskrat, Fiber zibet hic us. The smell of our weasels, and ermines, and polecats is fragrance itself when compared to that of the squash and the skink. Goldsmith, Hist. Earth (ed. 1822), III. 94. squash-beetle (skwosh'bē"tl), n. The striped cucumber-beetle, Diabrotica vittata , or a similar species, which feeds upon the squash and related plants. See Diabrotica .