advb. phr. [perh. A prep.1 + SQUARE.] On the square; aloof, at a safe distance.
c. 1400. Beryn, 586. Hym had been better to have goon more a-sware. Ibid., 596. That herd the pardoner wele, and held him better a square. Ibid., 643. The Pardonere … held him [right] a square, by þat othir syde.
