Definition of "square" []

• A plane figure having four equal sides. (noun)
• Something having an equal-sided rectangular form: a square of cloth. (noun)
• A T-shaped or L-shaped instrument for drawing or testing right angles. (noun)
• Mathematics The product obtained when a number or quantity is multiplied by itself: 49 is the square of 7. (noun)
• Games Any of the quadrilateral spaces on a board, as in chess. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Population in 1860, remaining the same per Population in 1860, remaining square mile, if area equal to that of South the same per _square mile_, if"
• "A square, a circle, a triangle, or any other form but that of an _oblong square_, would be eminently incorrect and unmasonic, because such a figure would not be an expression of the symbolic idea which is intended to be conveyed."
• "Now observe, in the ornament close to the eye, you had _six figures_ and a whole wreath of roses in the space of _a foot and a half_ square; but in the ornament sixty feet from the eye, you have now only ten or twelve large _leaves_ in a space of _eight feet square_! and note also that now there is no attempt whatsoever at the refinement of line and finish of edge which there was in the other example."