▪ I. † unsquare
obs. f. answer v.
| c 1420 Avow. Arth. xix, The tother vnsquarut him withskille. |
▪ II. unˈsquare, v.
[un-2 3, 6 b, 7.]
a. trans. To divest of squareness; to undo the squaring of. b. intr. To lose squareness of form or structure.
| 1611 Florio, Disquatrare, to vnsquare. 1790 Trans. Soc. Arts VIII. 168 [The loom] is not liable to unsquare; and yet..may be more easily removed than the old loom. 1872 De Morgan Budget of Paradoxes 470 Montucla charges Cluvier with unsquaring the parabola, which Archimedes had squared as tight as a glove. |