Squabby

flat, short and thick. From SQUAB , a sofa. Square , honest; “on the SQUARE ,” i.e. , fair and strictly honest; “to turn SQUARE ,” to reform, and get one’s living in an honest manner,—the opposite of “cro .” The expre ion is, in all probability, derived from the well-known masonic emblem the SQUARE , the symbol of evenne and rectitude. “You must keep within the compa , and act upon the square with all mankind, for your masonry is but a dead letter if you do not habitually perform its reiterated injunctions.”— Oliver’s Lectures on Signs and Symbols , p. 190.