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square-headed, a.
[square a. 13.]
Having the head or top fashioned or cut in a square form: a. Arch. Of doors, windows, etc.
1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 169 An example of the square-headed door of the Perpendicular style. 1837Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 19/1 Even the arch of the porch is not enclosed by a square-headed label. 1861Jas. Campbell Balmerino & its Abbey ii. xii. 154 This apartment was originally lighted by two square-headed windows.
b. Of bolts or nails.
1825Scott Betrothed iv, A volley of..square-headed bolts of great size and thickness. 1862M. E. Braddon Lady Audley i, Old oak, studded with great square-headed iron nails.
c. In other applications.
1857Hughes Tom Brown i, They are a square-headed and snake-necked generation. 1883Harper's Mag. Aug. 450/1 A large square-headed topsail. 1903C. F. A. Williams Notation 93 The virga had become the square-headed note {sqquav}, and the punctum either a square {bsquare} or a lozenge {blozenge}.
d. Level-headed, sensible.
1896H. G. Wells Let. 24 Jan. in Exper. Autobiogr. (1934) I. vi. 402 He's a first rate, square headed, thoroughly honest man. 1922Joyce Ulysses 82 Squareheaded chaps those must be in Rome: they work the whole show.
e. Stolid, dull.
1936C. S. Lewis Allegory of Love iv. 172 To believe thus is to attribute to Chaucer a square-headed vulgarity of thought and feeling.
f. Describing one of a Germanic race.
1942E. Paul Narrow St. xxix. 268 The square-headed, owl-like Nazis. 1979O. Sela Petrograd Consignment 35 A big, square-headed man.
Hence square-ˈheadedness.
1930Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Apr. 321/1 An underlying sanity and square-headedness about Huneker's critical judgments. |