† disquarev.
Obsolete. rare.
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transitive. To put out of square, to place awry.
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the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [noun] > action or fact of putting or being out of shape
deformation1551
disquaring1604
misfigure1857
disformation1890
1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (new ed.) iii. iii. 91 If there be but one eye..out of square..the first thing almost we marke, is the improportion or disquaring of that part.
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v.1604- to cast pearls before hogs
- to cast pearls before swine
- to cast pennyworths
- to cast reckonings
- to cast runes
- to cast seed
- to cast sheep's-eyes at
- to cast sheep'seyes at
- to cast snowballs
- to cast sods, turf, peat
- to cast something in a person's worts
- to cast something in one's dish
- to cast stones against the wind
- to cast the bones
- to cast the craw
- to cast the first stone
- to cast the gauntlet
- to cast the glamour over one
- to cast the gorge
- to cast the gorge at
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- to cast the riddle
- to cast the riddle and shears
- to cast their heads
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