ppl. a. [f. SQUAT v.]

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  1.  Pressed down, crushed.

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a. 1678.  Marvell, Wks. (1786), III. 215. The nightingale … adorns With music high the squatted thorns.

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  † 2.  Bot. = SESSILE a. 1 a. Obs.

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1760.  J. Lee, Introd. Bot., I. xix. (1776), 53. A compound Flower is an aggregate one, comprehending many Florets that are sessile, squatted, or without Peduncles.

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  3.  Settled down in a squatting posture.

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1818.  Keats, Endym., I. 264. To surprise The squatted hare while in half-sleeping fit.

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1895.  J. G. Millais, Breath fr. Veldt (1899), 49. A squatted covey, taken by surprise, will often rise singly or in pairs.

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