||Squa"li (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. squalus a kind of sea fish.] (Zoöl.)
||The suborder of elasmobranch fishes which comprises the sharks.
Squal"id (?), a. [L. squalidus, fr. squalere to be foul or filthy.]
Dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty.
Uncomed his locks, and squalid his attrie.
Dryden.
Those squalid dens, which are the reproach of large capitals.
Macaulay.
Squa*lid"i*ty (?), n. [L. squaliditas.] The quality or state of being
squalid; foulness; filthiness.
Squal"id*ly (?), adv. In a squalid manner.
Squal"id*ness, n. Quality or state of being squalid.
Squall (?), n. [Cf. Sw. sqval an impetuous running of water, sqvalregn
a violent shower of rain, sqala to stream, to gush.] A sudden violent
gust of wind often attended with rain or snow.
The gray skirts of a lifting squall.
Tennyson.
Black squall, a squall attended with dark, heavy clouds. -- Thick
squall, a black squall accompanied by rain, hail, sleet, or snow.
Totten. -- White squall, a squall which comes unexpectedly, without
being marked in its approach by the clouds. Totten.
Squall, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Squalled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Squalling.]
[Icel. skvala. Cf. Squeal.] To cry out; to scream or cry violently, as
a woman frightened, or a child in anger or distress; as, the infant
squalled.
Squall, n. A loud scream; a harsh cry.
There oft are heard the notes of infant woe, - The short, thick
sob, loud scream, and shriller squall.
Pope.
Squall"er (?), n. One who squalls; a screamer.
Squall"y (?), a. 1. Abounding with squalls; disturbed often with sudden
and violent gusts of wind; gusty; as, squally weather.
2. (Agric.) Interrupted by unproductive spots; -- said of a flied of
turnips or grain. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
3. (Weaving) Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty;
-- said of cloth.
Squa"lo*don (?), n. [NL. Squalus a genus of sharks + Gr. &?;, &?;, a
tooth.] (Paleon.) A genus of fossil whales belonging to the
Phocodontia; -- so called because their are serrated, like a shark's.
Squa"lo*dont (?), a. (Zoöl.) Pertaining to Squalodon.
Squa"loid (?), a. [NL. Squalus a genus of sharks (fr. L. squalus a kind
of sea fish) + - oid.] (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to a shark or sharks.
Squa"lor (?), n. [L., fr. squalere to be foul or filthy.] Squalidness;
foulness; filthness; squalidity.
The heterogenous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the
same aspect of squalor.
Taylor.
To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes.
Dickens.
||Squa"ma (?), n.; pl. Squamæ (#). [L. a scale.] (Med.) A scale cast
||off from the skin; a thin dry shred consisting of epithelium.
Squa*ma"ceous (?), a. Squamose.
||Squa*ma"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. squamatus scaly.] (Zoöl.) A
||division of edentates having the body covered with large, imbricated
||horny scales. It includes the pangolins.
{ Squa"mate (?), Squa"ma*ted (?) }, a. [L. squamatus.] Same as
Squamose.