ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Not made square; not reduced to a square form or section.
1549. Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par. 1 Cor. viii. 23 b. An idole … hathe no more Godhead in it, than an other vnsquared piece of tymber.
1598. Grenewey, Tacitus, Germanie, ii. (1622), 262. They … vse to all buildings vnsquared and vnwrought timber.
1633. T. Adams, Exp. 2 Peter ii. 5. An unsquared stone … must not be put into the building of Christ.
1664. Evelyn, Sylva, xxix. 90. Such Trees as one would leave round, and unsquar’d.
1798. Hutton, Course Math., II. 95. To find the Solidity of Round or Unsquared Timber.
1883. Stevenson, Treas. Isl., IV. xix. The log-house was made of unsquared trunks of pine.
fig. 1592. Kyd, Sp. Trag., III. xi. 23. The more he growes in stature…, The more vnsquard, vnbeuelled he appeares.
1606. Shaks., Tr. & Cr., I. iii. 159. With tearmes vnsquar’d, Which from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropt, Would seeme Hyperboles.
1607. Marston, What You Will, Induct. Were I to passe Through publick verdit, I should feare my forme, Least ought I offerd were unsquard or warp’d.
