Squa`mo*zyg`o*mat"ic (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the
squamosal and zygomatic bones; -- applied to a bone, or a center of
ossification, in some fetal skulls. -- n. A squamozygomatic bone.
||Squam"u*la (? or ?), n.; pl. Squamulæ (#). [L., dim. of squama a
||scale.] (Bot.) One of the little hypogynous scales found in the
||flowers of grasses; a lodicule.
Squam"u*late (?), a. Same as Squamulose.
Squam"ule (?), n. (Bot.) Same as Squamula.
Squam"u*lose` (?; 277), a. Having little scales; squamellate;
squamulate.
Squan"der (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Squandered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Squandering.] [Cf. Scot. squatter to splash water about, to scatter, to
squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt,
sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw out water.]
1. To scatter; to disperse. [Obs.]
Our squandered troops he rallies.
Dryden.
2. To spend lavishly or profusely; to spend prodigally or wastefully;
to use without economy or judgment; to dissipate; as, to squander an
estate.
The crime of squandering health is equal to the folly.
Rambler.
Syn. -- To spend; expend; waste; scatter; dissipate.
Squan"der, v. i. 1. To spend lavishly; to be wasteful.
They often squandered, but they never gave.
Savage.