squab

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A young, newly hatched, or unfledged pigeon.
2. n. A soft, thick cushion, as for a couch.
3. n. A couch.
4. adj. Young and undeveloped; newly hatched or unfledged: a squab chick.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To fall plump; strike heavily; flap; flop. They watched the street, and beheld ladies in … short cloaks with hoods squabbing behind (known as cardinals).
2. To squeeze; knoek; beat.
3. So as to strike with a crash; with a heavy fall; plump.
4. Fat; short and stout; plump; bulky.
5. Short; curt; abrupt.
6. Unfledged, newly hatched, or not yet-having attained the full growth, as a dove or a pigeon.
7. Hence Shy, as from extreme youth; coy.
8. n. A young animal in its earliest period; a young beast or bird before the hair or feathers appear. Specifically, a young unfledged pigeon or dove. A young pigeon is properly a squab as long as it sits in the nest; as soon as it can utter its querulous cries for food it becomes a squealer or squeaker, and so continues as long as it is fed by the parents, which is generally until it is fully fledged; but it continues to be called squab as marketable for its flesh.
9. n. A short, fat, flabby person: also used figuratively.
10. n. A thickly stuffed cushion, especially one for a piece of furniture, as an upholstered chair or sofa, to which it may or may not be attached.
11. n. A sofa in which there is no part of the frame visible, and which is stuffed and caught through with strong thread at regular intervals, but so as to be very soft.
12. n. An ottoman.
13. To stuff thickly and catch through with thread at regular intervals, as a cushion. A button or soft tuft is usually placed in the depressions to hide the stitches. Furniture upholstered in this manner is said to be squabbed.

Wiktionary

1. n. A baby pigeon or dove.
2. n. The meat of a squab (i.e. a young (domestic) pigeon or dove) used as food.
3. n. A baby rook.
4. n. A thick cushion, especially a flat one covering the seat of a chair or sofa.
5. v. obsolete To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Fat; thick; plump; bulky.
2. adj. Unfledged; unfeathered.
3. n. (Zoöl.) A nestling of a pigeon or other similar bird, esp. when very fat and not fully fledged.
4. n. A person of a short, fat figure.
5. n. A thickly stuffed cushion; especially, one used for the seat of a sofa, couch, or chair; also, a sofa.
6. adv. Vulgar With a heavy fall; plump.
7. v. obsolete To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a soft padded sofa
2. n. flesh of a pigeon suitable for roasting or braising; flesh of a dove (young squab) may be broiled
3. adj. short and fat
4. n. an unfledged pigeon