a. [SQUARE a. 12.] Having a square tail: a. Of animals, birds, etc.

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1781.  Pennant, Hist. Quadrup., II. 482. Square-tailed Shrew of a dusky cinereous color.

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1819.  Pantologia, s.v. Sorex, The white footed, square tailed, carinated, and unicolor shrews.

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1827.  Griffith, trans. Cuvier, V. 102. Sorex Tetragonurus (Square-tailed Shrew).

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1891.  Science-Gossip, XXVII. 80/1. The Square-tailed Worm…. Among our native worms there is one with a square tail (Allurus tetraedrus, Eisen).

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1895.  Lydekker, Roy. Nat. Hist., IV. 54. The square-tailed bee-eaters (Melittophagus) are all of small size.

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  b.  Of a coat.

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1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. VII. ii. Young Valour in square-tailed coat eyes Beauty in Greek sandals.

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