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The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.

• Square-toed
  Having the toe square.
• Square-toes
  A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly.
• LOWERCASE
  Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
• SQUARERIGGED
  Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.
• SQUARETOED
  Having the toe square. Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. V. Knox.
• Lowering
  of Lower
• SQUARETOES
  A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly. Thackeray.
• Lower-case
  Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
• Loweringly
  In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.
• Lowermost
  Lowest.
• Mizzenmast
  The hindmost mast of a three-masted vessel, or of a yawl-rigged vessel.
• Squarely
  In a square form or manner.
• Squareness
  The quality of being square; as, an instrument to try the squareness of work.
• Square-rigged
  Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.

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