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squash

 

  6  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Squash  \Squash\,  n. 
  A  game  much  like  rackets,  played  in  a  walled  court  with  soft 
  rubber  balls  and  bats  like  tennis  rackets. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Squash  \Squash\,  n. 
  1.  Something  soft  and  easily  crushed;  especially,  an  unripe 
  pod  of  pease. 
 
  Not  yet  old  enough  for  a  man,  nor  young  enough  for  a 
  boy;  as  a  squash  is  before  't  is  a  peascod.  --Shak. 
 
  2.  Hence  something  unripe  or  soft;  --  used  in  contempt. 
  ``This  squash,  this  gentleman.''  --Shak. 
 
  3.  A  sudden  fall  of  a  heavy,  soft  body;  also  a  shock  of  soft 
  bodies.  --Arbuthnot. 
 
  My  fall  was  stopped  by  a  terrible  squash.  --Swift. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Squash  \Squash\,  n.  [Cf.  {Musquash}.]  (Zo["o]l.) 
  An  American  animal  allied  to  the  weasel.  [Obs.]  --Goldsmith. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Squash  \Squash\,  n.  [Massachusetts  Indian  asq,  pl  asquash,  raw, 
  green,  immaturate  applied  to  fruit  and  vegetables  which  were 
  used  when  green,  or  without  cooking;  askutasquash  vine 
  apple.]  (Bot.) 
  A  plant  and  its  fruit  of  the  genus  {Cucurbita},  or  gourd 
  kind 
 
  Note:  The  species  are  much  confused.  The  long-neck  squash  is 
  called  {Cucurbita  verrucosa},  the  Barbary  or  China 
  squash,  {C.  moschata},  and  the  great  winter  squash,  {C. 
  maxima},  but  the  distinctions  are  not  clear. 
 
  {Squash  beetle}  (Zo["o]l.),  a  small  American  beetle 
  ({Diabrotica,  or  Galeruca  vittata})  which  is  often 
  abundant  and  very  injurious  to  the  leaves  of  squash, 
  cucumber,  etc  It  is  striped  with  yellow  and  black.  The 
  name  is  applied  also  to  other  allied  species. 
 
  {Squash  bug}  (Zo["o]l.),  a  large  black  American  hemipterous 
  insect  ({Coreus,  or  Anasa,  tristis})  injurious  to  squash 
  vines. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Squash  \Squash\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Squashed};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Squashing}.]  [OE.  squashen,  OF  escachier  esquachier  to 
  squash,  to  crush,  F.  ['e]cacher,  perhaps  from  (assumed)  LL 
  excoacticare  fr  L.  ex  +  coactare  to  constrain,  from  cogere, 
  coactum  to  compel.  Cf  {Cogent},  {Squat},  v.  i.] 
  To  beat  or  press  into  pulp  or  a  flat  mass;  to  crush. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  squash 
  n  1:  any  of  numerous  annual  tendril-bearing  trailing  plants  of 
  the  genus  Cucurbita  grown  for  their  fleshy  edible  fruits 
  [syn:  {squash  vine}] 
  2:  edible  fruit  of  a  squash  plant;  eaten  as  a  vegetable 
  3:  a  game  played  in  an  enclosed  court  by  two  or  four  players 
  who  strike  the  ball  with  long-handled  rackets  [syn:  {squash 
  racquets},  {squash  rackets}] 
  v  :  to  compress  with  violence,  out  of  natural  shape  or 
  condition;  "crush  an  aluminum  can";  "squeeze  a  lemon" 
  [syn:  {crush},  {squelch},  {mash},  {squeeze}]




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