squash

SQUASH, v.t. [L.] To crush; to beat or press into pulp or a flat mass.

SQUASH, n.

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.]