a. and sb. Obs. [f. FIVE after the logically correct four-square; cf. three-square.]
A. adj. Having five (equal) sides; equilaterally pentagonal.
1552. Huloet, Ffiue square, quinquangulus.
1560. Bible (Genev.), 1 Kings vi. 31. The vpper poste & side postes were fiue square.
1657. W. Coles, Adam in Eden, lxiii. The seed-vessel, when it is ripe is formed five square.
B. sb. A (regular) pentagon.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, xv. 241. Aristotle telleth vs that the Soule is knit to the body as ye forme or shape too the matter; that the Soule hath three chiefe powers, namely of lyfe, of sence, and of vnderstanding; and that the vnderstanding part conteineth in his power both the other two powers, as a Fiuesquare conteineth both a Fowersquare and a Triangle.
Hence Five-squared ppl. a. = FIVE-SQUARE A.
1535. Coverdale, 1 Kings vi. 31. He made two dores of olyue tre with fyue squared postes, and caused carued worked to be made therof with Cherubims, palme trees and floures, & ouerlayed them with plates of golde.
1562. Turner, Herbal, II. 7. The twygges [of Broome] are roughe and fiuesquared.
