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Square
King James Dictionary
or SQUARE, a. Gr.
1. Having four equal sides and four right angles as a square room a square figure.
2. Forming a right angle as an instrument for striking lines square.
3. Parallel exactly suitable true.
Shes a most triumphant lady, if report be square to her. Unusual.
4. Having a straight front, or a frame formed with straight lines not curving as a man of a square frame a square built man.
5. That does equal justice exact fair honest as square dealing.
6. Even leaving no balance. Let us make or leave the accounts square.
Three square, five square, having three or five equal sides, &c. an abusive use of square.
Square root, in geometry and arithmetic. The square root of a quantity or number is that which, multiplied by itself, produces the square. Thus 7 is the square root of 49, for 7 times 7 = 49.
In seamens language, the yards are square, when they are arranged at right angles with the mast or the keel. The yards and sails are said also to be square, when they are of greater extent than usual.
SQUARE, n.
1. A figure having four equal sides and four right angles.
2. An area of four sides, with houses on each side.
The statue of Alexander VII. stands in the large square of the town.
3. The content of the side of a figure squared.
4. An instrument among mechanics by which they form right angles, or otherwise measure angles.
5. Im geometry and arithmetic, a square or square number is the product of a number multiplied by itself. Thus 64 is the square of 8, for 8 times 8 = 64.
6. Rule regularity exact proportion justness of workmanship and conduct.
They of Galatia much more out of square.
I have not kept my square. Not in use.
7. A square body of troops a squadron as the brave square of war. Not in use.
8. A quaternion four. Not in use.
9. Level equality.
We live not on the square with such as these.
10. In astrology, quartile the position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other.
11. Rule conformity accord. I shall break no squares with another for a trifle.
Squares go. Let us see how the squares go, that is, how the game proceeds a phrase taken from the game of chess, the chess board being formed with squares.
SQUARE,
1. To form with four equal sides and four right angles.
2. To reduce to a square to form to right angles as, to square masons work.
3. To reduce to any given measure or standard.
4, To adjust to regulate to mold to shape as, to square our actions by the opinions of others to square our lives by the precepts of the gospel.
5. To accommodate to fit as, square my trial to my strength.
6. To respect in quartile.
7. To make even, so as to leave no difference or balance as, to square accounts a popular phrase.
8. In arithmetic, to multiply a number by itself as, to square the number.
9. In seamens language, to square the yards, is to place them at right angles with the mast or keel.
SQUARE,
1. To suit to fit to quadrate to accord or agree. His opinions do not square with the doctrines of philosophers.
2. To quarrel to go to opposite sides.
Are you such fools to square for this? Not in use.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Square'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/s/square.html.
