Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SQUEEZ-ING, n.

1. The act of pressing; compression; oppression.
2. That which is forced out by pressure; dregs. The dregs and squeezing of the brain. – Pope.

SQUEEZ-ING, ppr.

Pressing; compressing; crowding; oppressing.

SQUELCH, n.

A heavy fall. [Low and not used.] – Hudibras.

SQUELCH, or SQUELSH, v.t.

To crush. [A low word and not used.]

SQUIB, n. [This word probably belongs to the family of whip; denoting that which is thrown.]

1. A little pipe or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter and sent into the air, burning and bursting with a crack; cracker. Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze. – Waller. The making and selling of squibs is punishable. – Blackstone.
2. A sarcastic speech or little censorious writing published; a petty lampoon.
3. A pretty fellow. [Not in use.] The squibs, in the common phrase, are called libelers. – Tatler.

SQUIB, v.i.

To throw squibs; to utter sarcastic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, two members of a society squib a little in debate. [Colloquial.]

SQUIB'BING, n.

The act of throwing squibs or severe reflections.

SQUIB'BING, ppr.

Throwing squibs or severe reflections.

SQUILL, n. [Fr. squille, L. squilla, a squill, a lobster or prawn; It. squilla, a squill, a sea-onion, a little bell; squillare, to ring; Sp. esquila, a small bell, a shrimp.]

1. A plant of the genus Scilla.
2. Ornithogalum Squilla or Scilla maritima, officinal squill. It has a large acrid bulbous root like an onion, which is used in medicine.
3. A stomapodous crustaceous animal, of the genus Squilla. – Encyc.
4. An insect, called squill insect from its resemblance to the preceding, having a long body covered with a crust, the head broad and squat. – Grew.

SQUIN'AN-CY, n. [It. squinanzia; Fr. squinancie; L. cynanche; Gr. κυνάγχη.]

The quinsy, – which see. [Squinancy is not used.]

SQUINT, a. [D. schuin, sloping, oblique; schuinte, a slope; W. ysgeiniaw, to spread, to sprinkle, to squint, from ysgain, to spread, to sprinkle. We see the sense is to deviate from a direct line, to wander or shoot off.]

1. Looking obliquely.
2. Optic axes of both eyes not coinciding; occasioned by a permanent shortening of one of the lateral recti muscles, and a permanent elongation of its antagonist.
3. Looking with suspicion. – Spenser.

SQUINT, v.i.

1. To see obliquely. Some can squint when they will. – Bacon.
2. To have the axes of the eyes not coincident.
3. To slope; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely. – Kirwan.

SQUINT, v.t.

1. To turn the eye to an oblique position; as to squint an eye.
2. To look with non-coincident optic axes. He gives the web and the pin, squints the eye, and makes the hare-lip. – Shak.

SQUINT'-EYE, n.

An eye that squints.

SQUINT'-EY-ED, a.

1. Having eyes that squint; having eyes with non-coincident axes. – Knolles.
2. Oblique; indirect; malignant; as, squint-eyed praise. – Denham.
3. Looking obliquely or by side glances; as, squint-eyed jealousy or envy.

SQUINT-IF-E'GO, n.

Squinting. – Dryden. [A cant word and not to be used.]

SQUINT'ING, n.

The act or habit of looking squint.

SQUINT'ING, ppr.

Seeing or looking with non-coincident axes of the eyes; looking by side glances.

SQUINT'ING-LY, adv.

With squint look; by side glances.

SQUIN'Y, v.i.

To look squint. – Shak. [A cant word not to be used.]

SQUIR, v.t. [squur.]

To throw; to thrust; to drive. [Obs.] – Tatler.

SQUIRE, n. [a popular, contraction of esquire. See Esquire.]

1. In Great Britain, the title of a gentleman, next in rank to a knight. – Shak.
2. In Great Britain, an attendant on a noble warrior. – Dryden. Pope.
3. An attendant at court. – Shak.
4. In the United States, the title of magistrates and lawyer. In New England, it is particularly given to justices of the peace and judges; and to Pennsylvania, to justices of the peace only.
5. The title customarily given to gentlemen.

SQUIRE, v.t.

1. To attend as a squire. – Chaucer.
2. In colloquial language, to attend as a beau or gallant for aid and protection; as, to squire a lady to the gardens.

SQUIRE-HOOD, or SQUIRE-SHIP, n.

The rank and state of a squire. – Shelton.

SQUIRE-LY, a.

Becoming a squire. – Shelton.