Definition of square

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

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Square :: Square (n.) To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces; as, to square mason's work..
Die :: Die (n.) Any small cubical or square body.
Frigatoon :: Frigatoon (n.) A Venetian vessel, with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged..
Handkerchief :: Handkerchief (n.) A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face or hands..
Myriare :: Myriare (n.) A measure of surface in the metric system containing ten thousand ares, or one million square meters. It is equal to about 247.1 acres..
Castle :: Castle (v. i.) To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king..
Checker :: Checker (n.) To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors..
Plaza :: Plaza (n.) A public square in a city or town.
Quadrel :: Quadrel (n.) A square piece of turf or peat.
Pelecoid :: Pelecoid (n.) A figure, somewhat hatched-shaped, bounded by a semicircle and two inverted quadrants, and equal in area to the square ABCD inclosed by the chords of the four quadrants..
House :: House (n.) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece..
Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with.
Drop :: Drop (n.) The depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only.
Block :: Block (v. t.) A square, or portion of a city inclosed by streets, whether occupied by buildings or not..
Platoon :: Platoon (n.) Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square..
Turret :: Turret (n.) A movable building, of a square form, consisting of ten or even twenty stories and sometimes one hundred and twenty cubits high, usually moved on wheels, and employed in approaching a fortified place, for carrying soldiers, engines, ladders, casting bridges, and other necessaries..
Square :: Square (n.) Hence, a pattern or rule..
Tenacity :: Tenacity (n.) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, -- usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture..
Brigantine :: Brigantine (n.) A two-masted, square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig in that she does not carry a square mainsail..
Tetragon :: Tetragon (n.) A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle, as a square, a rhombus, etc..
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