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Square :: Square (n.) A square piece or fragment.

T Square :: T square () See under T.

Bowline :: Bowline (n.) A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled..

Tesseraic :: Tesseraic (a.) Diversified by squares; done in mosaic; tessellated.

Platoon :: Platoon (n.) Formerly, a body of men who fired together; also, a small square body of soldiers to strengthen the angles of a hollow square..

Pane :: Pane (n.) A division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided pattern..

Abaciscus :: Abaciscus (n.) One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus.

Ashler :: Ashler (n.) In the United States especially, a thin facing of squared and dressed stone upon a wall of rubble or brick..

Quarrel :: Quarrel (n.) Any small square or quadrangular membe.

Dogbolt :: Dogbolt (n.) The bolt of the cap-square over the trunnion of a cannon.

Ship :: Ship (n.) Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix..

Muriform :: Muriform (a.) Resembling courses of bricks or stones in squareness and regular arrangement; as, a muriform variety of cellular tissue..

Berretta :: Berretta (n.) A square cap worn by ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. A cardinal's berretta is scarlet; that worn by other clerics is black, except that a bishop's is lined with green..

Square :: Square (n.) A pane of glass.

Try-square :: Try-square (n.) An instrument used by carpenters, joiners, etc., for laying off right angles off right angles, and testing whether work is square..

Pyramid :: Pyramid (n.) A solid body standing on a triangular, square, or polygonal base, and terminating in a point at the top; especially, a structure or edifice of this shape..

Counterpane :: Counterpane (n.) A coverlet for a bed, -- originally stitched or woven in squares or figures..

Dentil :: Dentil (n.) A small square block or projection in cornices, a number of which are ranged in an ornamental band; -- used particularly in the Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite orders..

Lava :: Lava (n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States..

Andalusite :: Andalusite (n.) A silicate of aluminium, occurring usually in thick rhombic prisms, nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. It was first discovered in Andalusia, Spain..

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