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To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair). His hair banged even with his eyebrows. The Century Mag.

A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast squarerigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.] See Illust. in Append.

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

With the corner in front; diagonally; not square.

The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.

ng squares or cubes; as, for example, to find values of x and y which make x2 + y2 an exact square.

A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep. [Obs.] Mortimer.

gar fraction, as a factor, the number of times indicated by the power; thus, 9 is a perfect square, but an imperfect cube. -- Imperfect tense (Gram), a tense expressing past time and incomplete action.

um (Anc. Arch.), a kind of masonry employed in building walls, in which the stones were not squared nor laid in courses; rubblework.

; a perverse blockhead. Jackass bark (Naut.), a three-masted vessel, with only the foremast square-rigged; a barkentine. -- Jackass deer (Zoöl.), the koba. -- Jackass hare, Jackass rabbit (Zoöl.). See Jack rabbit, under 2d Jack, n. -- Jackass penguin (Zoöl.), any species of penguin of the genus Spheniscus, of which…

That may be sqyared, or reduced to an equivalent square; -- said of a surface when the area limited by a curve can be exactly found, and expressed in a finite number of algebraic terms.

ent having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc.

Nearly or approximately square; almost square.

A loose pendent part of a lady's garment; esp., one of a series of pendent squares forming an edge or border.

onfection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.