LekhoriLekhoriRelatively short or low, and thick or broad.
The SQUILL-INSECT. […] So called from ſome ſimilitude to the Squill-fiſh: chiefly, in having a long Body cover'd with a Cruſt compoſed of ſeveral Rings or Plates. The Head is broad and ſquat. He hath a pair of notable ſharp Fangs before, both hooked inward like a Bulls horns.
Sitting on one's heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering or crouching.
[H]im there they found, / Squat like a toad, cloſe at the ear of Eve, / Aſſaying by his deviliſh art to reach / The organs of her fancy', and with them forge / Illuſions as he liſt, phantaſms and dreams, […]
A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.
Sit in a squat, with your feet a comfortable distance apart.
Any of various modes of callisthenic exercises performed by moving the body and bending at least one knee.
The angel shark (genus Squatina).
From Middle English squatten, from Old French esquatir, escatir (“compress, press down, lay flat, crush”), from es- (“ex-”) + quatir (“press down, flatten”), from Vulgar Latin *coactire (“press togeth...
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To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.
Huddled together in loathsome files, they squat there over night, or until an inquisitive policeman breaks up the congregation with his club, which in Mulberry Street has always free swing.