subs. (old).—A girl.

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  1593.  C. HOLLYBAND, Dictionarie. Tu es un cainar, thou art a SQUALL.

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  1607.  MIDDLETON, Michaelmas Term, i. 2. A pretty, beautiful, juicy SQUALL.

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  1611.  COTGRAVE, Dictionarie, s.v. Obeseau, a young minx or little proud SQUALL.

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  1630.  TAYLOR (‘The Water Poet’), Workes, ‘A Whore.’

        The rich Gull Gallant call’s her Deare and Loue,
Ducke, Lambe, SQUALL, Sweet-heart, Cony, and his Doue.

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  Verb. (B. E.).—‘To cry a loud.’

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  TO LOOK OUT FOR SQUALLS, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To be on guard.

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