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Square Up
- verb - even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing
- make square; "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file"
- settle conclusively; come to terms; "We finally settled the argument"
Squarrose
- - Ragged or full of loose scales or projecting parts; rough; jagged; as: (a) (Bot. & Zool.) Consisting of scales widely divaricating; having scales, small leaves, or other bodies, spreading widely from the axis on which they are crowded; -- said of a calyx or stem. (b) (Bot.) Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; -- said of a leaf. (c) (Zool.) Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface; -- said of a shell.
Squashier
- adjective - (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous"
- easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility; "spongy bread"
- like a pulp or overripe; not having stiffness
Squashing
- verb - to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon"
Squatness
- noun - the property of being short and broad
Squatters
- noun - someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it
- someone who settles on land without right or title
Squattest
- adjective - having a low center of gravity; built low to the ground
- short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; "some people seem born to be square and chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure"
Squattier
- adjective - short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; "some people seem born to be square and chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure"
Squatting
- verb - be close to the earth, or be disproportionately wide; "The building squatted low"
- exercising by repeatedly assuming a crouching position with the knees bent; strengthens the leg muscles
- Illegally living in a property
- occupy (a dwelling) illegally
- sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm"
- the act of assuming or maintaining a crouching position with the knees bent and the buttocks near the heels