Part 703

To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes.

Dickens.

||Squa"ma (?), n.; pl. Squamæ (#). [L. a scale.] (Med.) A scale cast ||off from the skin; a thin dry shred consisting of epithelium.

Squa*ma"ceous (?), a. Squamose.

||Squa*ma"ta (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. squamatus scaly.] (Zoöl.) A ||division of edentates having the body covered with large, imbricated ||horny scales. It includes the pangolins.

{ Squa"mate (?), Squa"ma*ted (?) }, a. [L. squamatus.] Same as Squamose.

Squam"duck` (?). (Zoöl.) The American eider duck. [Local, U.S.]

Squame (?), n. [L. squama scale.] 1. A scale. [Obs.] "iron squames." Chaucer.

2. (Zoöl.) The scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean.

||Squa*mel"la (?), n.; pl. Squamellæ (#). [NL., dim. fr. L. squama a ||scale.] (Bot.) A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on ||the receptacle in many composite plants; a palea.

Squa*mel"late (?), a. Furnished or covered with little scales; squamulose.

Squa"mi*form (?), a.[L. squama a scale + -form.] Having the shape of a scale.

Squa*mig"er*ous (?), a. [L. squamiger; squama a scale + gerere to bear.] (Zoöl.) Bearing scales.

Squam"i*pen (? or ?), n. ;pl. Squamipennes (#). [L. squama a scale + penna a fin: cf. F. squamipenne.] (Zoöl.) Any one of a group of fishes having the dorsal and anal fins partially covered with scales.

They are compressed and mostly, bright-colored tropical fishes, belonging to Chætodon and allied genera. Many of them are called soral fishes, and angel fishes.

Squa"moid (?), a. [L. squama scale + -oid.] Resembling a scale; also, covered with scales; scaly.

Squa*mo"sal (?), a. (Anat.) (a) Scalelike; squamous; as, the squamosal bone. (b) Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone. -- n. The squamous part of the temporal bone, or a bone correspondending to it, under Temporal.

{ Squa*mose" (? or &?;), Squa"mous (?) }, [L. squamosus, fr. squama a scale: cf. F. squameux.] 1. Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale.

2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal.

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.