Obs. [Aphetic f. MUSQUASH.] The musk-rat or musquash, Fiber zibethicus.
1678. Phillips (ed. 4), Squash, a little Creature in some parts of America, somewhat resembling an Ichnumon or Indian Rat.
1699. Dampier, Voy., II. II. 59. The Squash is a four-footed Beast, bigger than a Cat.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist., III. 380. But the smell of our weasels, and ermines, and polecats, is fragrance itself when compared to that of the squash and the skink.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 201. Another stinkard, called the Squash, is said by Buffon to be found in some of the southern states.
1824. [see SKINK sb.5].
