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To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.

A kind of confectionery, usually a small cube or square of tenacious paste, or candy, of varying composition and flavor.

spread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets. Carpeted temples in fashionable squares. E. Everett.

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.

A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1

A woven or painted design in squares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure.

To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.

A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.

Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material. Dancing in the checkered shade. Milton.

Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.

Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; -- said of the field or of an armorial bearing. [Written also checquy, cheguy.]

The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.

A small, low pillar, square or round, commonly having an inscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for indicating the distances of places, for a landmark, for sepulchral inscriptions, etc. Gwilt.

hose whose powers terminate in the same digits as the roots themselves; as 5 and 6, whose squares are 25 and 36. Bailey. Barlow. -- Circular points at infinity (Geom.), two imaginary points at infinite distance through which every circle in the plane is, in the theory of curves, imagined to pass. -- Circular polariza…

tween the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear.

l or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yard. To clew down (Naut.), to force (a yard) down by hauling on the clew lines. -- To clew up (Naut.), to draw (a sail) up to the yard, as for furling.

A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore- and-aft sail. (b.)

erly used in England, made by cutting notches and figures on the four edges of a clog, or square piece of wood, brass, or bone; -- called also a Runic staff, from the Runic characters used in the numerical notation. -- Clog dance, a dance performed by a person wearing clogs, or thick-soled shoes. -- Clog dancer.…

ually weigh from eighteen to twenty-eight pounds. They have the head of fair length, with square muzzle, the ears long and set low, the legs short or of medium length, and the coat fine and silky, wavy but not curly. Various colors are bred, as black, liver, red, black and white, black and tan, etc.…

hes, the other 36 inches. -- Numbers, or Quantities, commensurable in power, those whose squares are commensurable.