Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SQUASH, n.

1. Something soft and easily crushed. – Shak.
2. [Qu. Gr. σικυος.]A plant of the genus Cucurbita, and its fruit; a culinary vegetable.
3. Something unripe or soft; in contempt. This squash, this gentleman. – Shak.
4. A sudden fall of a heavy soft body. – Arbuthnot.
5. A shock of soft bodies. My fall was stopp'd by a terrible squash. [Vulgar.] – Shak.