a. [f. SQUARE a.] Somewhat, more or less, or approximately, square.
1742. De Foe’s Tour Gt. Brit. (ed. 3), I. 313. Rugemont-castle … is of a squarish Figure, not very large.
1763. Phil. Trans., LIII. 170. The mouth is a foot in width, and of a squarish form.
1784. J. Barry, Lect. Art, iii. (1848), 141. The dry, lean, and (if such a term be allowable) squarish character and outline.
1815. Kirby & Sp., Entomol. (1816), I. 464. The habitation of a third larva … is composed of squarish pieces of the leaves of grass.
1843. Florist’s Jrnl. (1846), IV. 200. The leaves narrow, ovate, with a squarish base, and serrated at the margin.
1872. Coues, N. Amer. Birds, 2. The rhachis is squarish, and tapers to a point.
