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Definitions for: Squib [n] firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise
Webster (1913) Definition: Squib, n. [OE. squippen, swippen, to move swiftky, Icel.
svipa to swoop, flash, dart, whip; akin to AS. swipian to
whip, and E. swift, a. See Swift, a.]
1. A little pipe, or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with
powder or combustible matter, to be thrown into the air
while burning, so as to burst there with a crack.
Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze.
--Waller.
The making and selling of fireworks, and squibs . .
. is punishable. --Blackstone.
2. (Mining) A kind of slow match or safety fuse.
3. A sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a
brief, witty essay.
Who copied his squibs, and re["e]choed his jokes.
--Goldsmith.
4. A writer of lampoons. [Obs.]
The squibs are those who in the common phrase of the
world are called libelers, lampooners, and
pamphleteers. --Tatler.
5. A paltry fellow. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Squib, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Squibbed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Squibbing.]
To throw squibs; to utter sarcatic or severe reflections; to
contend in petty dispute; as, to squib a little debate.
[Colloq.]
See Also: firework, pyrotechnics
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