資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Square \Square\, a.
1. (Geom.) Having four equal sides and four right angles; as,
a square figure.
2. Forming a right angle; as, a square corner.
3. Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and
angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a
square frame.
4. Exactly suitable or correspondent; true; just.
She's a most truimphant lady, if report be square to
her. --Shak.
5. Rendering equal justice; exact; fair; honest, as square
dealing.
6. Even; leaving no balance; as, to make or leave the
accounts square.
7. Leaving nothing; hearty; vigorous.
By Heaven, square eaters. More meat, I say. --Beau.
& Fl.
8. (Naut.) 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.
Note: Square is often used in self-explaining compounds or
combination, as in square-built, square-cornered,
square-cut, square-nosed, etc.
{Square foot}, an area equal to that of a square the sides of
which are twelwe inches; 144 square inches.
{Square knot}, a knot in which the terminal and standing
parts are parallel to each other; a reef knot. See Illust.
under {Knot}.
{Square measure}, the measure of a superficies or surface
which depends on the length and breadth taken conjointly.
The units of square measure are squares whose sides are
the linear measures; as, square inches, square feet,
square meters, etc.
{Square number}. See {square}, n., 6.
{Square root of a number} or {quantity} (Math.), that number
or quantity which, multiplied by itself produces the given
number or quantity.
{Square sail} (Naut.), a four-sided sail extended upon a yard
suspended by the middle; sometimes, the foresail of a
schooner set upon a yard; also, a cutter's or sloop's sail
boomed out. See Illust. of {Sail}.
{Square stern} (Naut.), a stern having a transom and joining
the counter timbers at an angle, as distinguished from a
round stern, which has no transom.
{Three-square}, {Five-square}, etc., having three, five,
etc., equal sides; as, a three-square file.
{To get square with}, to get even with; to pay off. [Colloq.]
Three-square \Three"-square`\, a.
Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral
triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.