squirrel hake (skwurelhak)

A gadoid fish, Phycis chu ; the white hake. See chu , h, Phycis chu hake2, 2, and cut under Phycis. squirrel-hawk (skwur'e rel-hawk (skwur'el-hak), n. The ferru hawk, Arch i buteo ferrugi ginous rough-legged hawk, Squirrel-hawk (Arch i buteo ferrugineus). neus, the largest and hand somest bird of its genus, found in Cali fornia and IMG:content-1924.jpg:[blocks in formation] parts of west SO IMG:content-1925.png:[blocks in formation] 2. To prate; blab. [Old slang.]- Squirting cucumber. See Ecballium. squirt (skwert), n. [ His weapons are a pin to scratch and a squirt to bespatter. Pope. 2. A small jet: as, a squirt of water.-3. A system of motion of a fluid, where the motion is everywhere irrotational, and where there is no expansion except at isolated points. - 4. Loosene of the bowels; diarrhea. [Low.] - 5. A small, insignificant, but self-a ertive fellow; an upstart; a cad. [Colloq.] - 6. A hasty start or spurt. [Colloq.] stabilitate one in the back (that is, to slander one behind his back). Her silence stabbed his conscience through and through. Lowell, A Legend of Britt any, ii. 24. 4. In masonry, to pick (a (a brick wall) so as to make it rough, and thereby afford a hold for plaster.- To stab armst. See arm1. - To stab out, to cut a continuous incision in with a sharp edge like that of a chisel, by making one cut in line with and in continuation of another, the first guiding the second, and so on. II. in trans. 1. To aim a blow with a dagger or other pointed weapon, either literally or figuratively: as, to stab at a person. None shall dare With shortened sword to stab in closer war. Dryden, Pal. and Arc., iii. 509. 2. To wound; be extremely cutting. She speaks poniards, and every word stabs . Shak., Much Ado, ii. 1. 255. IMG:content-1926.jpg:[graphic]