QUASH, v.t. [L. quasso, quatio.] 1. Properly, to beat down or beat in pieces; to crush.The whales against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quash'd.2. To crush; to subdue; as, to quash a rebellion.3. In law, to abate, annul, overthrow or make void; as, to quash an indictment. He pays judgment of the writ or declaration that the same may be quashed.QUASH, v.i. To be shaken with a noise. QUASH, n. A species of cucurbita; but in America pronounced squash; so called probably from it softness. [See the Verb.] |
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