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Square \Square\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Squared (skw[^a]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Squaring.] [Cf. OF. escarrer, esquarrer. See Square, n.]
To form with four equal sides and four right angles.
--Spenser.To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces; as, to square masons' work.
To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
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To adjust; to regulate; to mold; to shape; to fit; as, to square our actions by the opinions of others.
Square my trial To my proportioned strength.
--Milton. To make even, so as to leave no remainder or difference; to balance; as, to square accounts.
(Math.) To multiply by itself; as, to square a number or a quantity.
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(Astrol.) To hold a quartile position respecting.
The icy Goat and Crab that square the Scales.
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(Naut.) To place at right angles with the keel; as, to square the yards.
To square one's shoulders, to raise the shoulders so as to give them a square appearance, -- a movement expressing contempt or dislike.
--Sir W. Scott.To square the circle (Math.), to determine the exact contents of a circle in square measure. The solution of this famous problem is now generally admitted to be impossible.
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vb. (present participle of square English)
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Usage examples of "squaring".
Squaring her slim shoulders, she glared up at Brett and let loose in a torrent of French.
He brought the glass end of the black scope up to his right eye, shut his left, and pointed it down, squaring in on Lo Manto as he ran toward Stalli, firing off four rounds in his direction.
The allosaurus was carefully stalking Skuld, squaring off against the giant to keep him away from the mortal troops.
Then he saw a good many other men, especially those who had fought in the Castalia Invincibles under Captain Lewis, were also squaring their shoulders and bringing their feet together.
To write another word seemed beyond the power of human ingenuity, and for an hour or more Condy would sit scowling at the half-written page, gnawing his nails, scouring his hair, dipping his pen into the ink-well, and squaring himself to the sheet of paper, all to no purpose.
In the background, near register, he sees Jocko and the second squaring off, but he keeps his eyes on man he just shot.
Squaring up to this new test of initiative Angus drove Mr Micawber to Fioneriska House and then up the North track to the boathouse.
He could not for the life of him help assuming his air of doggy raffishness, squaring his padded shoulders a little, twisting up his mouth in the well-known slightly-bored, slightly-cynical smile.
Boadle beaned by a barrel of flour whence the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur tendered by Harry in an image more suiting those unnatural persons mounting, in an almost inverse proportion to the millions, billions in settlements, the frivolous legal heights of corporate anonymity, in Harry's hands become the chandelier he's dropped here in Oscar's path, arching his good knee, squaring the pillow, his glasses again, licking a thumb to flick over the cover page of Szyrk v.
And one had to admit that it took a lot of squaring, for dear old Bicky, though a stout fellow and absolutely unrivalled as an imitator of bull-terriers and cats, was in many ways one of the most pronounced fatheads that ever pulled on a suit of gent's underwear.
I’ll be bound you have all the cockerels in Yorkshire squaring up to each other!
He made his living as a supplier, and banker, and even spiritual comforter for the kind of maniacs who in earlier times confined themselves to building perpetual-motion machines and squaring the circle, but who nowadays discover various forms of health-giving energy, think up theories of cosmogenesis, and devise ways of commercially utilizing telepathic phenomena.
Each recruit unit made a mock cohort, and they practiced engagements, disengagements, squaring, flanking, and other maneuvers: first without weapons, and then with wooden swords and shields.
Squaring her yards, she bore down, ranged abeam under the Pequod's lee, and lowered a boat.
He asserts that as he cannot find any solution to the problem it must have something to do with the squaring of the circle, the duplication of the cube, or the trisection of an angle.