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exactly found, which, multiplied by itself, produces the 
square.—Level; equality. 
We live noton the square with such as these, 
Such are our betters who can better please. Dryden. 
Quartile; the astrological situation of planets, distant 
ninety degrees from each other. 
To the other five 
Their planetary motions, and aspects. 
In sextile, square, and trine and opposite 
Of noxious efficacy. Milton. 
Rule; conformity. A proverbial use. —I shall break no 
squares whether it be so or not. L'Estrange. 
Squares go. The game proceeds. Chessboards being 
full of squares.—-One frog looked about him to see how 
squares went with their new king. L'Estrange. 
To SQUARE, v. a. To form with right angles; to 
reduce to a square. 
Circles to square , and cubes to double, 
Wou’d give a man excessive trouble. Prior. 
To measure; to reduce to a measure. 
Stubborn critics, apt, without a theme 
For depravation, to square all the sex 
By Cressid’s rule. Shalcspeare. 
To adjust; to regulate ; to mould; to shape.—How fran¬ 
tic! y I square my talk! Shalcspeare. 
Thou’rt said to have a stubborn soul, 
That apprehends no further than this world, 
And squar'st thy life accordingly. Shalcspeare. 
To accommodate ; to fit. 
Eye me, blest providence, and square my trial 
To my proportion’d strength. Milton. 
To respect in quartile. 
O'er libra’s sign a crowd of foes prevails, 
The icy goat and crab that square the scales. Creech. 
To SQUARE, v. n. To suit with; to fit with. 
I set them by the rule, and, as they square. 
Or deviate from undoubted doctrine, fare. Dry den. 
To quarrel; to go to opposite sides. Obsolete. The 
French word contrecarrer has the same import. The 
French quarter has also been referred to: sequarrer, “ to 
shut or square it; to look big; to carry the arms a-kembo, 
braggadochio-like.” Cotgrave. 
Are you such fools 
To square for this ? would it offend you then 
That both should speed ? Titus Andronicus. 
SQUARE HANDKERCHIEF, a cluster of islets and 
rocks in the Atlantic, formerly called Bazos de Babuca, ex¬ 
tending above 100 miles in circumference. Lat. 21. N. long. 
69. W. 
SQUARE ISLAND, a small island in the north part of 
Lake Superior. Lat. 48. 40. N. long. 87. 22. W. 
SQUARE ISLAND, an island near the east coast of La¬ 
brador. Lat. 52. 54. N. long. 55. 32. W. 
SQUARENESS, s. The state of being square.—This 
instrument is for striking lines square to other lines or 
straight lines, and try the squareness of their work. 
Moxon. 
To SQUASH, v. a. [schiacciare, Ital.] To crush into 
pulp; to batter or make as flat as a cake. 
SQUASH, Any thing soft and easily crushed.—Not 
yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy, as 
a squash is before it is a peaseod, or a coddling, when it is 
almost an apple. Shalcspeare. —A plant.— -Squash is an 
Indian kind of pumpion that grows apace. Boyle. —Any 
thing unripe; any thing soft. In contempt. 
How like I then was to this kernel. 
This squash, this gentleman. Shalcspeare. 
A sudden fall.-—Since they will overload my shoulders, I 
shall throw down the burden with a squash among them. 
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Arbutknot. —A shock of soft bodies.—My fall was stopped 
by a terrible squash that sounded louder than the cataract of 
Niagara. Swift. 
To SQUAT, v. n. [quattare, Ital.] To sit cowering; 
to sit close to the ground. 
To SQUAT, v. a. To braise or make flat by letting fall. 
Grose notices this as a provincial word, Barret thus gives it, 
under the verb throw ; “ To squatte or throwe any thing 
against the ground.” Alv. 1580. 
SQUAT, adj. Cowering; close to the ground. 
Him there they found. 
Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve. ' Milton. 
Short and thick; having one part close to another, as 
those of an animal contracted and cowering. 
Alma in verse, in prose, the mind. 
Throughout the body squat or tall, 
Is bond fide all in all. Prior. 
SQUAT, s. The posture of cowering or lying close. 
A stitch-fall’n Cheek that hangs below the jaw; 
Such wrinkles as a skilful hand would draw 
For an old grandam ape, when with a grace 
She sits at squat, and scrubs her leathern face. Dryden. 
A sudden fall.—Bruises, squats and falls, which often kills 
others, can bring little hurt to those that are temperate. 
Herbert. 
SQUAT, s. A sort of mineral.—-The squat consists of 
in ore and spar incorporated. Woodward. 
To SQUAWL. See To Squall. 
To SQUEAK, v. n. [sqwaeka, Swed.] To set up a 
sudden dolorous cry; to cry out with pain ; to cry with a 
shrill acute tone. 
The sheeted dead 
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. Shakspeai e. 
In florid impotence he speaks. 
And as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks. Prior. 
To break silence or secrecy for fear or pain. 
SQUEAK, s. A cry of pain. 
Ran cow and calf, and family of hogs, 
In panic horror of pursuing dogs: 
With many a deadly grunt and doleful squeak. 
Poor swine! as if their pretty hearts wou’d break. Dryden. 
A shrill quick cry, not of pain.—The coquette-—with a 
great many skittish notes, affected squeaks, and studied 
inconsistencies, distinguished herself from the rest of the 
company. Tatler. 
SQUEA'KER, s. One who crys with a shrill acute 
tone. 
To SQUEAL, v. n. [sqwaela, Su. Goth. See To 
Squall.] To cry with a shrill sharp voice; to cry with 
pain. Squeak seems a short sudden cry, and squeal a cry 
continued.—She pinched me, and called me a squealing 
chit. Tatler. 
SQUEA'MISH, adj. [for quawmish or qualmish, from 
qualm. Johnson. And thus formerly our word was 
squamish : “ To be squamish or nice.” Barret. - ] Nice ; 
fastidious; easily disgusted; having the stomach easily 
turned; being apt to take offence without much reason. It 
is used always in dislike either real or ironical.—Yet, for 
countenance sake, he seemed very squeajnish in respect of 
the charge he had of the Princess Pamela. Sidney. 
Quoth he, that honour’s very squeamish. 
That takes a basting for a blemish ; 
For what’s more honourable than scars, 
Or skin to tatters rent in wars i 1 Hudibrae. 
His music is rustic, and perhaps too plain. 
The men of squeamish taste to entertain. Southern. 
It is rare to see a man at once squeamish and voracious. 
South. —There is no occasion to oppose the ancients and the 
moderns, or to be squeamish on either side. He that wisely 
conducts his mind in the pursuit of knowledge, will gather 
what lights he can from either. Locke. 
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