Pl. squali. [L. squalus, some sea-fish.] A shark.
1753. Chambers, Cycl., Suppl. s.v., The squalus with a long-pointed and bony snout. Ibid. The smooth squalus with granulous teeth.
1784. Ann. Reg., 241. The squalus or true tyger shark, uncommon on our coasts.
1816. Tuckey, Narr. Exped. R. Zaire, ii. (1818), 40. We also took a small squalus, of a species new to us.
1854. Badham, Halieut., 416. The ancients have left us many lively representations of the sanguinary proceedings of these ill-omened Squali.
