intimation, innuendo, insinuation, suggestion, hint.
5. inclination, tendency, leaning, penchant, proneness, bent, propensity, proclivity, predilection, prejudice, bias.
squire, n. 1. (in England) country gentleman, landowner, landholder, landed proprietor. '
2. attendant, servant, servitor, Archaic, yeoman, retainer, (in the Middle Ages) esquire; valet, man, gentleman, manservant, Archaic, varlet, Fr. valet de cham-bre, Fr. valet de pied; lackey, flunky, liveried servant, footman, footboy, page, Brit, boots, Brit, buttons.
3. date, partner, companion, accompanier, escort, cavalier, beau, suitor, gallant, boyfriend.
-v.4. attend, esquire, wait on or upon, serve, assist, aid; usher, conduct, pilot, steer, guide, lead, direct.
5. escort, go with, accompany, companion; date, take out, Inf. go out with.
squirm, v. wriggle, wiggle, writhe, twist; turn, move, shift.
squirt, v. 1. eject, ejaculate, emit, discharge, release, expel, spew out; shoot out, spurt, spout, jet, gush, rush, surge; effuse, flow out, run out, pour out, stream out, cascade, fall; issue, come out or forth, emanate, well forth.
2. wet, splash, plash, splatter, bespatter, spatter, spray, shower, sprinkle, besprinkle, sparge.
-n. 3. spurt, jet, stream, flow, spray, fountain; outflow, outpour, outpouring, rush, gush; issuance, emanation, afflux, flux, efflux, effluence.
4. syringe, douche; spray gun, sprayer, atomizer, plant mister, sprinkler.
5. Informal, pip-squeak, SI. twerp, SI. punk,
stab, v. 1. pierce, puncture, lancinate, prick, stick, cut, slit, gash, slash, slice, trepan; penetrate, enter, pass through, transpierce, run through, SI. let the daylight in; impale, transfix, fix, spit, skewer; spike, spear, pike; knife, bayonet; lance, pink, lacerate, perforate, gouge, gore; thrust, drive, plunge, bury, jab, poke, strike, hit.
2. wound, hurt, pain, violate, attack, injure; grieve, aggrieve, distress, afflict, trouble, discomfort.
3. stab [s.o.] in the back Slang, betray, reveal [s.o.'s] secrets, break faith with, Inf double-cross, let down, sell or sell out, play false, go over to the enemy; backbite, be two-faced, play Judas, give the Judas kiss, slander, vilify, SI. badmouth, SI. knife.
-n. 4. thrust, blow, jab, pass, stroke, lunge, punch, poke; pink, prick, hit, coup.
5. wound, laceration, trauma, gash, slash, slit, nick, tear, rent; scratch, cut, incision, puncture.
6. Informal, try, attempt, effort, plunge, flyer, risk, chance, Inf. whirl.
7. pang, twinge, ache, pain, shooting or piercing pain; throe, throb, spasm; kink, stitch, crick.
8. stab in the back Slang, betrayal, Judas kiss, kiss of death, double-dealing, duplicity, Inf. double cross.
stability, n. 1. fixedness, permanence, solidity, solidness, fixity, immovability, stableness; rest, repose, immobility, inertia, dormancy, inaction, inactivity, quiescence; balance, equilibrium, steadiness.
2. changelessness, unchangeableness, immutability; abidingness, endurance, maintenance, perseverance, pursuance, perpetuation; continuity, unity, similarity, uniformity; continuance, duration, prolongation.
3. steadfastness, reliability, dependability, constancy, steadiness; resolution, resoluteness, determination, perseverance, persistence; tenacity, adherence, devotion, Inf. stick-to-it-iveness; resolve, poise, aplomb, decisiveness, purposiveness; grit, mettle, will, pluck,