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Squash \Squash\, n.
1. Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe
pod of pease.
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Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a
boy; as a squash is before 't is a peascod. --Shak.
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2. Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.
"This squash, this gentleman." --Shak.
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3. A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft
bodies. --Arbuthnot.
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My fall was stopped by a terrible squash. --Swift.
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4. A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with
soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets; -- called
also {squash rackets}.
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Squash \Squash\ (skw[o^]sh), n. [Cf. {Musquash}.] (Zool.)
An American animal allied to the weasel. [Obs.] --Goldsmith.
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Squash \Squash\, n. [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.
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Note: 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.
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{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.
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Squash \Squash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Squashed} (skw[o^]sht); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Squashing}.] [OE. squachen, OF. escachier,
esquachier, to squash, to crush, F. ['e]cacher, 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.
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