adv. [f. SQUARE a.]
1. So as to be squared (by multiplication).
1557. Recorde, Whetst., D iij. The other sides beyng multiplied squarely (that is, by them selfes).
1594. Blundevil, Exerc., I. (1636), 96. Which Root if you Multiply into it selfe squarely, the Product will be like unto the Number given.
1613. Tapp, Pathw. Knowledge, 303. Multiply the roote nearest found squarely.
1674. Jeake, Arith. (1696), 297. Then must 10 be multiplyed Squarely and 8 Cubically.
2. Honestly, fairly, in a straightforward manner.
1564. in Tytler, Hist. Scotl. (1864), III. 138. To speak squarely our opinion, we think you could in fewer lines have comprehended matter more to our contentation.
1624. Sanderson, Serm., I. 247. Let us therefore deal squarely, as wise and honest merchants should do.
1640. Harsnet, Repent., 166. True it is that many doe carry themselves very squarely and plausibly to the Eye of the World.
a. 1704. T. Brown, Decl. Adv., Wks. 1730, I. 41. If they dealt squarely with me … they’d scarce at all wonder.
1767. Spirit Public Jrnls. (1806), IX. 247. Act fairly and squarely,… For honesty sure is by far the best policy.
1876. Stedman, Victorian Poets, 59. The pleasure which comes from being in harness, and from duty squarely performed.
1884. Atlanta Constitution, 16 Jan., 4/3. Lord Falmouth, one of the few sportsmen who never bet and who ran his horses squarely.
† 3. Freely, copiously. Obs.–1
1611. Cotgr., s.v. Donné, Il s’en est bien donné, he hath tipled squarely.
† 4. Precisely, exactly. Obs.
1626. T. H[awkins], trans. Caussin’s Holy Crt., 6. The works are likewise the more feeble, not squarely answering to the modell of knowledge.
1637. Gillespie, Eng.-Pop. Cerem., Prol. C 2 b. Blindly to followe every opinion which is broached, and squarely to conforme unto every custome.
1684. Otway, Atheist, I. i. My Orders are to meet her fairly and squarely this Evening at Seven.
5. In a position directly square with, or opposite to, some line or object; in a straight or direct manner.
1802. James, Milit. Dict., s.v. March, The front-directing serjeant, after having placed himself perfectly and squarely in the rank, must [etc.].
1883. B. Harte, Carquinez Woods, viii. 186. She looked him squarely in the eyes without a word.
1894. Mrs. F. Elliot, Roman Gossip, iv. 113. He sits squarely on his war-horse.
fig. 1867. Augusta Wilson, Vashti, xv. She set this conjecture squarely before her, and forced herself to contemplate it.
1873. Hale, In His Name, ii. 8. They refuted it squarely.
b. At right angles to the length or height.
1873. E. Spon, Workshop Rec., Ser. I. 7/1. The brush requires to be squarely and evenly cut.
1883. E. Ingersoll, in Harper’s Mag., Jan., 200/2. We … saw that a bole fully six feet in diameter had broken squarely across.
c. fig. Plainly, unequivocally, firmly, solidly. Chiefly U.S.
1860. in Thornton, Amer. Gloss. (1912), II. 845. [This] means simply and squarely, that you intend … to rule or ruin this Government.
1885. E. C. Stedman, in Century Mag., XXIX. 511/1. He [O. W. Holmes] stands squarely upon observation, experience, induction.
1900. Lapsley, County Pal. Durham, 44. He … based his demand squarely on his royal power.
6. In a square form; so as to be square.
1828. W. Field, Mem. Dr. Parr, II. 355. He was about the middle height, squarely built, of strong athletic frame, not much inclined to corpulency.
1861. Engl. Wom. Dom. Mag., III. 219. Holding a squarely-folded note at arm’s length before my eyes.
1864. Miss Yonge, Trial, II. 310. The squarely made, handsome Averil Ward.
1882. Jrnl. Linn. Soc., XVI. 232. Aperture-papillae large and squarely oval.
