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Squarer   Listen
noun
Squarer  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, squares.
2.
One who squares, or quarrels; a hot-headed, contentious fellow. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Squarer" Quotes from Famous Books



... across the Place, Vanno very slim and tall beside the shorter, squarer figure of the man of fifty. Into the church the cure led the Prince, and through the cool, incense-laden dusk to a door standing wide open. Outside was a green brightness, which made the doorway in the ...
— The Guests Of Hercules • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... yellow boudoir. She had just come in from a bazaar, and was wearing a rather angry-looking hat, very much turned up on one side, with enormous purple feathers. She was looking very far from pleased. Her handsome chin appeared squarer than usual. There was a look in her eyes that more than one man besides Harry would have been by no ...
— The Limit • Ada Leverson

... politics, to Apperton and Lopez about the price of consols, and to you about wine. If I asked you what you thought of the last new book, your lordship would be a little surprised." Lord Mongrober grunted and looked redder and squarer than ever; but he made no attempt at reply, and the victory was evidently left with Dick,—very much to the general exaltation of his character. And he was proud of himself. "We had a little tiff, me and Mongrober," he said to his wife that night. "'E's a very good ...
— The Prime Minister • Anthony Trollope

... the noble four-masted ships of from 1,800 tons to 2,200 tons, which sail and carry well on their tonnage, and which are worked by fewer hands than are required for a ship of the same burden with three masts but squarer yards. Some owners prefer the latter, and so Messrs. Russell show not only such handsome specimens as the four-masted Falls of Earn, but also the three-masted Ardencraig and Soudan. One of the favorite models of this firm is that of their ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 • Various

... round or square it cannot be rounder or squarer. These adjectives do not admit of comparative and superlative forms. But we may say more nearly round or less ...
— Slips of Speech • John H. Bechtel

... himself upright. He set his teeth, and his heavy jaw seemed squarer than ever. There was a great ...
— The Explorer • W. Somerset Maugham



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