soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock
large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous
poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium; "Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock"
a streak of light in the sky at night that results when a meteoroid hits the earth's atmosphere and air friction causes the meteoroid to melt or vaporize or explode
a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles; "the carpenter who built this room must have lost his square"
any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles; "a checkerboard has 64 squares"
a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views
someone who doesn't understand what is going on
the product of two equal terms; "nine is the second power of three"; "gravity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance"
(geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon; "you can compute the area of a square if you know the length of its sides"
something approximating the shape of a square
rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; "a square peg in a round hole"; "a square corner"
make square; "Square the circle"; "square the wood with a file"
raise to the second power
position so as to be square; "He squared his shoulders"
pay someone and settle a debt; "I squared with him"
be compatible with; "one idea squares with another"
having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles; "wind and sea may displace the ship's center of gravity along three orthogonal axes"; "a rectangular Cartesian coordinate system"