Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 142

Square (n.) A body of troops formed in a square, esp. one formed to resist a charge of cavalry; a squadron.

Square (n.) Fig.: The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.

Square (n.) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.

Square (n.) The act of squaring, or quarreling; a quarrel.

Square (n.) The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.

Square (a.) Having four equal sides and four right angles; as, a square figure.

Square (a.) Forming a right angle; as, a square corner.

Square (a.) Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame.

Square (a.) Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just.

Square (a.) Rendering equal justice; exact; fair; honest, as square dealing.

Square (a.) Even; leaving no balance; as, to make or leave the accounts square.

Square (a.) Leaving nothing; hearty; vigorous.

Square (a.) At right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; -- said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.

Squared (imp. & p. p.) of Square

Squaring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Square

Square (n.) To form with four sides and four right angles.

Square (n.) To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces; as, to square mason's work.

Square (n.) To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.

Square (n.) To adjust; to regulate; to mold; to shape; to fit; as, to square our actions by the opinions of others.

Square (n.) To make even, so as leave no remainder of difference; to balance; as, to square accounts.

Square (n.) To multiply by itself; as, to square a number or a quantity.

Square (n.) To hold a quartile position respecting.

Square (n.) To place at right angles with the keel; as, to square the yards.

Square (v. i.) To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to conform or agree; to suit; to fit.

Square (v. i.) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.

Square (v. i.) To take a boxing attitude; -- often with up, sometimes with off.

Squarely (adv.) In a square form or manner.

Squareness (n.) The quality of being square; as, an instrument to try the squareness of work.

Squarer (n.) One who, or that which, squares.

Squarer (n.) One who squares, or quarrels; a hot-headed, contentious fellow.

Square-rigged (a.) Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.

Square-toed (n.) Having the toe square.

Square-toes (n.) A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly.

Squarish (a.) Nearly square.

Squarrose (a.) Ragged or full of lose scales or projecting parts; rough; jagged

Squarrose (a.) Consisting of scales widely divaricating; having scales, small leaves, or other bodies, spreading widely from the axis on which they are crowded; -- said of a calyx or stem.

Squarrose (a.) Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf.

Squarrose (a.) Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface; -- said of a shell.

Squarroso-dentate (a.) Having the teeth bent out of the plane of the lamina; -- said of a leaf.

Squarrous (a.) Squarrose.

Squarrulose (a.) Somewhat squarrose; slightly squarrose.

Squash (n.) An American animal allied to the weasel.

Squash (n.) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.

Squashed (imp. & p. p.) of Squash

Squashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squash

Squash (v. i.) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.

Squash (n.) Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease.

Squash (n.) Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.

Squash (n.) A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.

Squasher (n.) One who, or that which, squashes.

Squashiness (n.) The quality or state of being squashy, or soft.

Squashy (a.) Easily squashed; soft.

Squat (n.) The angel fish (Squatina angelus).

Squatted (imp. & p. p.) of Squat

Squatting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squat

Squat (v. t.) To sit down upon the hams or heels; as, the savages squatted near the fire.

Squat (v. t.) To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.

Squat (v. t.) To settle on another's land without title; also, to settle on common or public lands.

Squat (v. t.) To bruise or make flat by a fall.

Squat (a.) Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.

Squat (a.) Short and thick, like the figure of an animal squatting.

Squat (n.) The posture of one that sits on his heels or hams, or close to the ground.

Squat (n.) A sudden or crushing fall.

Squat (n.) A small vein of ore.

Squat (n.) A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.

Squaterole (n.) The black-bellied plover.

Squatter (n.) One who squats; specifically, one who settles unlawfully upon land without a title. In the United States and Australia the term is sometimes applied also to a person who settles lawfully upon government land under permission and restrictions, before acquiring title.

Squatter (n.) See Squat snipe, under Squat.

Squatty (a.) Squat; dumpy.

Squaw (n.) A female; a woman; -- in the language of Indian tribes of the Algonquin family, correlative of sannup.

Squawberry (n.) A local name for the partridge berry; also, for the deerberry.

Squawked (imp. & p. p.) of Squawk

Squawking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squawk

Squawk (v. i.) To utter a shrill, abrupt scream; to squeak harshly.

Squawk (n.) Act of squawking; a harsh squeak.

Squawk (n.) The American night heron. See under Night.

Squawl (v. i.) See Squall.

Squawroot (n.) A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; -- called also cancer root.

Squawweed (n.) The golden ragwort. See under Ragwort.

Squaked (imp.& p. p.) of Squeak

Squeaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squeak

Squeak (v. i.) To utter a sharp, shrill cry, usually of short duration; to cry with an acute tone, as an animal; or, to make a sharp, disagreeable noise, as a pipe or quill, a wagon wheel, a door; to creak.

Squeak (v. i.) To break silence or secrecy for fear of pain or punishment; to speak; to confess.

Squeak (n.) A sharp, shrill, disagreeable sound suddenly utered, either of the human voice or of any animal or instrument, such as is made by carriage wheels when dry, by the soles of leather shoes, or by a pipe or reed.

Squeaker (n.) One who, or that which, squeaks.

Squeaker (n.) The Australian gray crow shrile (Strepera anaphonesis); -- so called from its note.

Squeakingly (adv.) In a squeaking manner.

Squealed (imp. & p. p.) of Squeal

Squealing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Squeal

Squeal (v. i.) To cry with a sharp, shrill, prolonged sound, as certain animals do, indicating want, displeasure, or pain.

Squeal (v. i.) To turn informer; to betray a secret.

Squeal (n.) A shrill, somewhat prolonged cry.

Squealer (n.) One who, or that which, squeals.

Squealer (n.) The European swift.

Squealer (n.) The harlequin duck.

Squealer (n.) The American golden plover.

Squeamish (a.) Having a stomach that is easily or nauseated; hence, nice to excess in taste; fastidious; easily disgusted; apt to be offended at trifling improprieties.

Squeamous (a.) Squeamish.

Squeasiness (n.) Queasiness.

Squesy (a.) Queasy; nice; squeamish; fastidious; scrupulous.

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