square 
squash 
qwrir, <v-mr V. tquarrir = Pr.^^ayVor, 
escairar, seayrar = Sp. <<// = Pg. esqua- 
rfr> > = It.gd-ce,<ML. "ejcquailnin; square, 
< L. -, out, + quadntre, make square/ fjf rfm, 
a square, < quadrus, square, four-cornered: see 
quadrate, faiA ct. gqtiare^, a., square^-, .] I. 
trims. 1. To make square; form with four 
8quae-potted, as a moth: as, the 
. coin, Hide and seek, i. i-j. <**i the ajKore-qwl rustic: a British collec- 
4. To strut; swagger. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.l tors use. 
As if some curious Florentine had trickle them up to t JlV^tT*'!^ ' ^'^ 
square it up and downe the streets before his mistresse. le P" rn " M COHSoiini ''. 
rn. Quip for an i pstart courtier. (Dames.) square-spotted (skwar spotted), a. Having 
To square away, to square the yards for the purpose of square spots: used specifically by British col- 
equal sides and four right angles- as to square kee P'"S the 8hi P Before the wind. lectors to note various moths. Also squm-i- 
a block; speoificallv (milit.), to form into a S 9 uarel .(skwar), adv. K Wiwrl, O.] Square- spot. 
square. HI at right angles ; without deviation or dehVo square-stern (skwar'stern), . A boat with a 
Sfctiarrf in full legion (such command we had) *T ' aS ' tO hit a P erSOn *V uare On the head " 8( l uare 8tem ' a Huron ' 
Milton. P. L., viii. 232 He who can Bit ?'"' on a three-legged stool, he it is The boats from Kenosha to Sheboygan are called iquare- 
2m i 3 wn o has the wealth and glory. gleni I W mZfur 
. To shape by reducing accurately to right R. L.8l&**m, Inland Voyage, p. 50. 
angles and straight lines. Fair and sauare See fair* Square-sterned (skwar'sternd), a. Having a 
As if the carpenter before he began to square his timber square' (skwar j, . A dialectal form of squired JSSS^S* '", SSS&S??^ b a i tS ? r ve ? 8els ; 1 
would make his squire crooked square-built (skwar'bilt), . Having a shape SQUare-toed (skwar tod), a. 1. Having the 
Puttcnham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 129. ^road as compared with the heieht. and bound- 
Having with his shears squared, i. e. cut off at right an- 
gles, the rough outer edge of two adjoining sides of each 
board. [Jre, Diet., I. 421. 
3. To.reduce to any given measure or standard; 
mold; adjust; regulate; accommodate; fit. 
Stubborn critics, apt, without a theme 
For depravation, to square the general sex 
By Cressid'a rule. Shak., T. and C., v. 2. 132. 
Why needs Sordello square his course 
By any known example? Browning, Sordello. 
4. 
tion to. 
compared with the height, and bound- 
ed by rectilinear rather than curved lines: as, 
a square-built man or ship. 
A short, square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair. 
Irving, Sketch-Book, p. 52. 
square-capt (skwar'kap), . A London appren- 
tice : so called from the " 
toes square. 
His clerical black gaiters, his somewhat short, strapless 
trowsers, and his square toed shoes. 
Chai lotte Bronte, Shirley, xvi. 
2. Formal; precise; finical; punctilious; prim. 
[Bare.] 
Have we not almost all learnt these expressions of old 
foozles, and uttered them ourselves when in the square- 
toed state ? Thackeray, Roundabout Papers, xi. 
square-toes (skwar'toz), . A precise, formal, 
e form of his cap. 
But still she repli'd, good sir, la-bee, 
If ever I have a man, square-cap for me. _ __ _ 
Cleamland, Poems (1651). (Hares.) "^Id-fashioned pers'onage. 
..,,.; t square-CUt (skwar'kut), a. Cut with square I have heard of an old square-toes of sixty who learned, 
rot., to Hold a quaitile position in rela- cu ff S) collar, and (broad) skirts : noting a style by study and intense application, very satisfactorily to 
of coat in fashion in the eighteenth century. dance. Thackeray, rhilip, xv. 
Hewaslooselydressedinapurple^^tcoat, which Squaring (skwar'ing), . [Verbal n. of square^, 
had 8een 8enrlce - Froude, Two chiefs of Dunboy, ii. l'.] The act of making square. 
'' 
Zadkiel, Gram, of Astrol. , p. 394. 
5. To balance; counterbalance; make even, so 
as to leave no difference or balance ; settle : as, 
to square accounts. 
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square-framed (skwar'framd), . 
proportion. F'uil*er,\\mthies,~i7xv~ plied to framing. 
They square up their bills with the importers either with Squarehead (skwar^hed), H. 
the articles themselves or with the money they receive for 
them, and lay in their new stock of goods. 
Originally, a free 
emigrant; now, a German or a Scandinavian. 
[Slang, Australia.] 
The Century, XL. 317. square-headed (skwar'hed'ed), a. Cut off at 
right angles above, as an opening or a figure 
with upright parallel sides; especially, noting 
a window or a door so formed, as distinguished 
from one that is round-headed or arched, or 
otherwise formed. 
The outer range, which is wonderfully perfect, while 
the inner arrangements are fearfully ruined, consists, on 
the side towards the town, of two rows of arches, with a 
third story with square-headed openings above them. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 117. 
square-leg (skwar'leg), n, lu cricket, a fielder 
who stands some distance to the batsman's left, 
nearly opposite the wicket, to stop balls that 
may be hit square across the field. 
1. In a square form : 
In a square manner. 
(a) Honestly; fairly: as, to deal squarely, (b) Directly; 
Thick planks of seasoned wood truly squared, 
used by bookbinders for cutting boards for 
single book-covers, or for the square cutting of 
paper with rough edges. 
[Uaring-plow (skwar'ing-plou), n. In book- 
inding, a hand-tool used to trim the edges of 
books. 
squaring-shears (skwar'ing-sherz), n. sing, and 
pi. 1. In sheet-metal work, a machine for cut- 
ting and tracing sheets of tin-plate. It has an 
adjustable table with a scale and gage. 2. 
In bookbinding, a pivoted knife for trimming 
the edges of piles of paper or book-sheets. 
squarrose (skwar'os), a. [< LL. "squarrosug, 
given in Festus as an adj. applied to persons 
whose skin scales off from uncleanliness; prob. 
an error for squamosus, scaly, scurfy: see sqtia- 
mose.'] 1. In bot., rough with spreading pro- 
cesses; thickly set with divergent or recurved, 
commonly rigid, bracts or leaves, as the in- 
volucres of various Composites and the stems of 
some mosses ; of leaves, bracts, etc. , so disposed 
as to form a squarrose surface. Also squarrous. 
2. In entom.jlaciniate and prominent: noting 
a margin with many long thin projections di- 
6. To make angular; bring to an angular posi- 
tion. 
With that I ... planted myself side by side with Mr. 
Drummle, my shoulders squared and my back to the fire. 
Dickens, Great Expectations, xliii. 
He again squared his elbows over his writing. 
B. L. Steeenson, An Inland Voyage, Epil. 
7. In math., to multiply (a number or quantity) 
by itself. 8. To form into a polygon: a loose 
use of the word. 
Summe ben 6 squared, summe 4 squared, and summe 3, as 
nature schapethe hem. Mandeville, Travels, p. 160. 
9. To make " square " or " all right ": "fix" 
that is, to make a corrupt bargain with ; bribe ; 
suborn : as, to square a subordinate before at- 
tempting a fraud. [Slang.] 
The horses he had "nobbled," the Jockeys "squared," . - f . 
the owners "hocussed." Lever, Davenport Sana, xi. gt) Equally ; evenly ; Justly 
How D was squared, and what he got for his not very 3 " In . *<>'> rectangularly or perpendicularly to squarrous (skwar us), a, [< LL. "squarrosus: 
valuable complicity in these transactions does not appear a part or margin : as, squarely truncate ; square- see squarrose.] 1. In bot., same as squarrose, 
Huxley, Pop. Sci. Mo., XXXV. 609. ly deflexed. 1. 2. In eutom., irregularly covered with 
10. To find the equivalent of in square mea- squareman (skwar 'man), n.; pi. sqiiaremen scales, which stand up from the surface at va- 
sure ; also, to describe a square equivalent to (- men )- A workman who uses the square; a nous angles, resembling scurf. 
To square outt, to arrange; layout. carpenter. [Scotch.] squarrulose (skwar o-los), a. [Dim. of squar- 
Mason, The squareman follow'd i' the raw, rose 'l In bot -> somewhat squarrose; finely 
Advance your Pickaxe, whilst the Carpenter squares out And syne the weavers. squarrose. 
Our new work. Brome, The Queens Exchange, v. Mayne, Siller Gun, p. 22. (Jamieson.) squarson (skwar'sn), n. [< squ(ire~) + (p)ar- 
To square the circle. See problem of the quadrature, squareness (skwar'nes),n. The state or quality *"] One who is at the same time a landed 
under quadrattire.lo square the course (iumt.), to lay of being square, in any sense, 
get thedeadcyesTn^he^m^oi^iifa^fn^-V' 10 "'^ * S 0, uarer (skwar'er), n. [< square^- + -erl.] 1. 
the ratlines (naut.\ to get the ratlines horizontal"!! One who squares: as, a squarer of the circle, 
parallel to one another. TO square the yards (naut.) 2f. One who quarrels ; a contentious, irasci- 
to lay the yards at right angles with the vessel's keel by ble fellow, 
means of the braces, at the same time bringing them to a 
horizontal position by means of the lifts. Is there no young W^rer now that will make a voyage 
II. intfans. 1. To accord ; agree ; fit : as, his with hlm to the devl1 ' Shak " Much Ado ' ' l ' 8i 
opinions do not square with mine. 3 - One who spars ; __a boxer. [Colloq.] 
proprietor and a beueficed clergyman. [Ludi- 
crous, Eng.] 
The death has lately occurred of Rev. W. H. Hoare, of 
Oakfleld, Sussex. . . . Mr. Hoare, it is said, was the origi- 
nal of the well known expression, invented by Bishop Wil- 
bertorce. Squarson, by wnich he meant a landed proprie- 
tor in holy orders. Living Church, Aug. 25, 1888. 
He (the Duke] could never square well with his Emi- Square-rigged (skwar'rigd), a. Naiit. .having 
:ncy the Cardinal. Hmeett, Letters, I. vi. 46. the Principal sails extended by yards slung 
He held the sacrosanct position of a squarson, heing at 
once Squire and Parson of the parish of Little Wentley. 
A. Lang, Mark of Cain, ix. 
^ to Squarsonage (skwar'son-aj), n. [< squarson + 
the masts by the middle, and not by gaffs, -age.] The residence of one who is at once 
booms, or lateen yards. Thus, a ship, a bark, squire and parson. [Ludicrous, Eng.] 
No works shall find acceptance in that day . . ancl a ^"8 are square-rigged vessels. See cut She left the gray old squarsonage and went to London. 
That square not truly with the Scripture plan. under */( i)>. A. Lang, Mark of Cain, ix. 
Cowper, Charity, 1. 659. squaresail (skwar'sal), n. A sail horizontally squash 1 (skwosh), v. [An altered form, con- 
2f. To quarrel ; wrangle ; take opposing sides, extended on a yard slung to the mast by the formed to the related quash, of what would 
middle, as distinguished from other sails which prop, be *sqnatch, < ME. squacchen, squachen, 
are extended obliquely; specifically, a square swacchen, < OF. esquachier, escachier, escacier, 
sail occasionally carried on the mast of a sloop, esquacJier, escacJier, F. teacher, crush; cf. Sp. 
or the foremast of a schooner-rigged vessel, acachar,agachar=Pg.agachar,aeacapar,re6., 
bent to a yard called the squaresail-yard. squat, cower; < L. ex-, out (or in Sp. Pg. a- < 
nency thi 
There is no church whose every part so squares* unto my 
conscience. Sir T. Browne, Eeligio Medici, i. 5. 
And when he gave me the bishopric of Winchester, he 
said he had often squared with me, but he loved me never 
the worse. State Trials, Gardiner, 5 Edw. VI., an. 1561. 
Are you such fools 
To square for this ? Shak., Tit. And., ii. 1. 100. 
