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squat(4) (iou)



squat verb. Infl. -tt-. Pa. t. & pple squatted, squat. ME.
[Old French esquatir, -ter, from es- EX-1 + quatir press down, crouch, hide, from Proto-Romance verb from Latin coactus pa. pple of cogere: see COGENT. See also SWAT verb2.]
I.
verb trans. Dash down or thrust violently or with some force. Long obsolete exc. dial. ME.
verb trans. Crush, flatten, or beat out of shape; smash, squash; bruise severely. Now dial. LME.
verb intrans. Fall violently. LME-L16.
II.
verb intrans. & refl. Of a person: sit with the hams resting on the backs of the heels, or with the knees drawn up and the heels close to or touching the hams; esp. sit on the ground in this way; colloq. sit (down). Also foll. by down. LME.
b. verb intrans. Of an animal: crouch close to the ground, esp. to avoid observation or capture. LME.
c. verb trans. Lower in the act of squatting. Also, (of an animal) let (the tail) droop or fall. E18.
d. verb intrans. & trans. Weightlifting. Perform a squat while holding (a weight). M20.
verb trans. Cause to squat; put into a squatting posture. rare. E17.
verb intrans.
a. Sink in or down. Now rare. M17.
b. (Of a vessel) settle lower in the water at the stern when at speed; (of a motor vehicle) undergo a lowering of the rear when travelling at speed. M20.
verb intrans. Settle on new, uncultivated, or unoccupied land without any legal title and without the payment of rent; live without legal right on land or in premises otherwise unoccupied; live as a squatter. E19.
S. Townsend He was still squatting in the old tyre factory.
b. verb intrans. Take up government land for pasturage as a squatter. Austral. E19.
c. verb trans. Install (a person) as a squatter; occupy as a squatter. L20.
squattage noun (a) a property occupied by a squatter; (b) the occupation of property by squatting: M19.
squa'ttocracy noun (Austral. History) the class of squatters as a body possessing social and political importance M19.

heathen (medicine)


heathen


Origin: OE. Hethen, AS. Hen, prop. An adj. Fr. H heath, and orig, therefore, one who lives in the country or on the heaths and in the woods (cf. Pagan, fr. Pagus village); akin to OS. Hin, adj, D. Heiden a heathen, G. Heide, OHG. Heidan, Icel. Heiinn, adj, Sw. Heden, Goth. Haipn, fem. See Heath, and cf. Hoiden.

1. An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater.

2. An irreligious person. "If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted heathens." (V. Knox) The heathen, as the term is used in the Scriptures, all people except the Jews; now used of all people except Christians, Jews, and Mohammedans. "Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance." (Ps. Ii. 8)

Synonym: Pagan, gentile. See Pagan.

Source: Websters Dictionary