Used colloquially for Squire.

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1844.  When we get you back to Eaton’s, the square will make you suffer for it.—‘Lowell Offering,’ iv. 52. (Italics in the original.)

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1850.  Look o’ here, ’Square, one o’ them quarters you ’gin me last was a pistareen!—Knick. Mag., xxxv. 179 (Feb.).

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1851.  You do n’t say so! Then you must ha’ got it, Square!—Id., xxxvii. 554 (June).

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1851.  I drive you, Square, and I don’t do nothin’ else!—Id., xxxviii. 80 (July).

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1852.  He could give the ‘Square’ ‘fifty, and beat him.’—Id., xxxix. 469 (May).

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1857.  Well, Square,… I don’t feel in fighting trim with them clothes on that gal.—J. G. Holland, ‘The Bay-Path,’ p. 55. (Numerous examples occur on pp. 65–70, 154–7, &c.)

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1867.  

        ‘Wal, Square, I guess so. Callilate to stay?
I ’ll ask Mis’ Weeks; ’bout thet it ’s hern to say.’
Lowell, ‘Fitz-Adam’s Story.’    

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