Squash (?), n. [Cf. Musquash.]
(Zoöl.) An American animal allied to the
weasel. [Obs.] Goldsmith.
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.
&fist; 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 (Zoöl.), 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
(Zoöl.), a large black American hemipterous insect
(Coreus, or Anasa, tristis) injurious to squash vines.
Squash, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Squashed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Squashing.] [OE. squashen, OF. escachier,
esquachier, to squash, to crush, F. écacher,
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.
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.
Squash (?), n. A game much like
rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like
tennis rackets.
Squash (?), n. [Cf. Musquash.]
(Zoöl.) An American animal allied to the
weasel. [Obs.] Goldsmith.
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.
&fist; 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 (Zoöl.), 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
(Zoöl.), a large black American hemipterous insect
(Coreus, or Anasa, tristis) injurious to squash vines.
Squash, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Squashed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Squashing.] [OE. squashen, OF. escachier,
esquachier, to squash, to crush, F. écacher,
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.
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.
Squash (?), n. A game much like
rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like
tennis rackets.
