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-88 HAMPSHIRE GLOSSARY. Squab [skwob], sh. (1) An unfeathered bird.— ^Cooper. *Ak, defines it as ' the weakest bird of the brood.' (2) ' On the 30th of last June, I untiled the eayes of a house where many pairs [of swifts] build, and found in each nest only 2 9quab^ naked imttt.'— White's NcA. Hist, of SdhortUy Letter xxi f 3) Anything large. Ex. * a $quab of a piece/ a large piece. (4) A tliickset^ heavy person. — Wise, New Forest Squat [skwotl, ih. the stay of a waggon to prevent its slipping back downhilL— N. H. Squat [skwot], tb, a pimple ; the same as QucU, q. v. Just as squcU 18 used for fuat, so quat is used for squat, in the sense of to squat dotwk-— W. Sqnat, v. to bruise or to lay flat — Cooper. To press or push back— N. H. Squawk [skwauk], v, to squall. Ex. * How the child do squawk/^ — N. H. Sqnawking-throflh [skwau'kin-thrush], sh. the missel-thrush.- Sqaeaker [skwee-kur], 8b. the swift — N. H. Sqneloh [skwelshl, adv. heavily, said of a fall. Ex. 'A veil down squdchf he fell aown heavily. *Ak. Sqnibbed [skwibd], pp. killed, crushed, applied to vermin ; and also to Unen when rumpled. — ^F. M. Sqninney [skwmi], v. to fret, as a child. — Halliwell. Sqninny-gnta [skwin'i-guts], sb. a fractious child. — J. Squirts [skwurts], sb. diarrhoea. Ex. ' To have the squirts* — ^F. M. Sqniflll [skwish], sb. weak tea. — Adams' WyJcehamica^ p. 435. Sqnoil fskwoil], sb. a ' ftcale ' (q. v.) or short stick loaded at one end with lead, used for throwing at cocks, squirrels, &c From the notion of throwing squoils at a person came the forced interpretation of throwing glances at ona ' And so in the New Forest at this day squoyles not unfrequently mean glanctsJ^ — ^Wise, New Foreet^ p. 182. "JSol * He throwed a squoyle ; ' that is, he looked at it — Blaclunore's Oradock NoufeU, L p. 225. Hence the name of the game of squails. Sqnoil, v. To throw squoils ; also, to slander. 'With the sb. is also employed the verb to squoyle^ better known in reference to the old s^ort of cock-squoyling [i. a throwing sticks at cocks]. From throwing at the squirrel uie word was used in reference to persons, so that, ** don*t squoyle at me," at length meant, *' don't slander me." ' — ^Wise, New Forest, ibid. Stabble [stab'l], v. n. to enter a house with dirty shoes. — N. H. Stabbles fstab'lz], sb. pi. marks, footprints ; always in the plural. In an old rhyme upon a hailstorm, we have — ' Go round the ricks, and round the ricks, And make as many stotbUe as nine-score sheep.* Wise, New Forest.