the lifts and braces.

SQUARE RIBBONS. A synonym of _horizontal lines_, or _horizontal
ribbons_.

SQUARE-RIGGED. Ships having chiefly square sails; a term used in
contradistinction to all vessels which do not use them. It is also
applied to vessels with unusually long yards. The term is also
familiarly used to denote a person's being full-dressed.

SQUARE-SAIL. The flying sail, set on the fore-yard of a schooner, or the
spread-yard of a cutter or sloop.

SQUARE-SAIL BOOM. A boom hooked on to an eye-bolt in the fore-part of
the fore-mast of a fore-and-aft vessel, to boom out the square-sail.

SQUARE-SAILS. Colloquially applied to the courses; but the term may be
used for any four-cornered sail extended to a yard suspended by the
middle.

SQUARE-STERNED. Implies a stern where the wing-transom is at right
angles with the stern-post. (_See_ PINK and ROUND STERN.)

SQUARE-STERNED AND BRITISH BUILT. A phrase to express the peculiar
excellence of our first-class merchantmen.

SQUARE TIMBERS. Those timbers which stand square with, or perpendicular
to, the keel.

SQUARE-TOPSAIL SLOOP. Sloops which carry standing yards.

SQUARE TUCK. The after-part of a ship's bottom, when terminated in the
same direction up and down as the wing-transom.

SQUARE YARDS! The order to attend to the lifts and braces, for going
before the wind.--_To square a yard._ In working ship, means to bring it
in square by the marks on the braces. Figuratively, to settle accounts.

SQUARING THE DEAD-EYES. Bringing them to a line parallel to the sheer of
the ship.

SQUARING THE RATLINES. Seeing that all are horizontal and ship-shape.

SQUATTER. The flutter of sea-birds along the water. Also, one who
settles, without a title. The hybrid but expressive Americanism
_absquatulate_, means to clear off; the reverse of to _squat_.

SQUAW. A woman of the North American Indians.

SQUEEGEE. An effective swabbing implement, having a plate of
gutta-percha fitted at the end of a broom handle.

SQUETEE. The Yankee name of a labrus, very common in the waters of Long
Island Sound and adjacent bays, but never found in rivers.

SQUID. An animal allied to the cuttle-fish, belonging to the class
_Cephalopoda_; the calamary or _Loligo_ of naturalists.

SQUILGEE, OR SQUILLAGEE. A small swab made of untwisted yarns.
Figuratively, a lazy mean fellow.

SQUIRM. A wriggling motion like that of an eel. Also, a twist in a rope.

STABBER. A pegging awl; the same as _