squarewise, adv.
Also square-wise; 6 squyre-, 6–7 squirewise.
[f. square a.]
† 1. After the fashion of a carpenter's square; at right angles, rectangularly. Obs.
| 1546 State Papers Hen. VIII, XI. 231, 2 boordes [= tables] being set squyrewise. 1571 Digges Pantom. i. xviii. F b, Then go from it Orthogonally or Squirewise..200 foote. 1593 T. Fale Art of Dialling 13 Let the line of Contingence be drawn squarewise by the point F. 1598 R. Haydocke tr. Lomazzo i. 111 From which point..vnto the great gate at the west ende, it woulde be extended square wise so much more. 1669 Sturmy Mariner's Mag. vii. xxvii. 40 Draw the Line FBA squire wise to the Substiler Line. 1692 Capt. Smith's Seaman's Gram. ii. 156 Two Sticks..joyned together, Square-wise. 1725 Fam. Dict. s.v. Cutting, You must upon some Occasions cut Square-wise, and that is to be done to bushy dwarf Trees. |
2. In the form of a square; squarely.
| 1611 Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. (1614) 125/1 It lieth somewhat square-wise, not much different in length and breadth. 1725 Fam. Dict. s.v. Watering, You shall..knock four or five strong Stakes into the bottom of the Water, setting them Squarewise. 1853 G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas II. 254 By folding a silk handkerchief square-wise into a broad belt. 1891 Cayley Math. Papers (1897) XIII. 179 A circle is squarewise contractible into a point. |