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Webster 1913 Edition

Squash

Squash

(skwŏsh)
,
Noun.
[Cf.
Musquash
.]
(Zool.)
An American animal allied to the weasel.
[Obs.]
Goldsmith.

Squash

,
Noun.
[Massachusetts Indian
asq
, pl.
asquash
, raw, green, immature, 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.
☞ The species are much confused. The long-neck squash is called
Cucurbita verrucosa
, the Barbary or China squash,
Cucurbita moschata
, and the great winter squash,
Cucurbita maxima
, but the distinctions are not clear.
Squash beetle
(Zool.)
,
a small American beetle (
Diabrotica vittata
, syn.
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
(Zool.)
,
a large black American hemipterous insect (
Coreus tristis
syn.
Anasa tristis
) injurious to squash vines.

Squash

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Squashed
(skwŏsht)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Squashing
.]
[OE.
squachen
, 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
,
Verb.
I.
]
To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.

Squash

,
Noun.
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.
Shakespeare
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Squash

SQUASH

,
Verb.
T.
[L.] To crush; to beat or press into pulp or a flat mass.

SQUASH

,
Noun.
1.
Someting soft an deasily crushed.
2.
[Gr.] A plant of the genus Cucurbita, and its fruit; a culinary vegetable.
3.
Something unripe or soft; in contempt.
This squash, this gentleman.
4.
A sudden fall of a heavy soft body.
5.
A shock of soft bodies.
My fall was stoppd by a terrible squash. [Vulgar.]

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