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Square :: Square (n.) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.

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

Quarrel :: Quarrel (n.) Any small square or quadrangular membe.

Archivolt :: Archivolt (n.) The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening..

Pompadour :: Pompadour (n.) A crimson or pink color; also, a style of dress cut low and square in the neck; also, a mode of dressing the hair by drawing it straight back from the forehead over a roll; -- so called after the Marchioness de Pompadour of France. Also much used adjectively..

Lava :: Lava (n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States..

Squarrose :: Squarish (a.) Nearly square.

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

List :: List (n.) A little square molding; a fillet; -- called also listel.

Acre :: Acre (n.) A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English..

Block :: Block (v. t.) A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not..

Counterpoint :: Counterpoint (n.) A coverlet; a cover for a bed, often stitched or broken into squares; a counterpane. See 1st Counterpane..

Crossjack :: Crossjack (n.) The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast..

Atrium :: Atrium (n.) A square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels..

Quarto :: Quarto (n.) Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size..

Side :: Side (n.) The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding line of a geometrical figure; as, the side of a field, of a square or triangle, of a river, of a road, etc..

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

Billet :: Billet (n.) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round..

Palette :: Palette (n.) A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments..

Broach :: Broach (n.) A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper..

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