A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines.

To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.

That branch of algebra which treats of quadratic equations.

Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones. Of or pertaining to the quadratojugal bone. The quadratojugal bone.

A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves; as the quadratrix, of Dinostratus, or of Tschirnhausen.

The act of squaring; the finding of a square having the same area as some given curvilinear figure; as, the quadrature of a circle; the operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure bounded wholly or in part by a curved line, as by a curve, two ordinates, and the axis of abscissas.

A square piece of turf or peat.

Comprising four years; as, a quadrennial period.

Once in four years.

A space or period of four years.

Same as Tetrabasic.

Quadrable.

A quantic of the second degree. See Quantic. A surface whose equation in three variables is of the second degree. Spheres, spheroids, ellipsoids, paraboloids, hyperboloids, also cones and cylinders with circular bases, are quadrics.

Having four capsules.

The great extensor muscle of the knee, divided above into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee.

Of or pertaining to the quadriceps.

Any quadricornous animal.

Having four horns, or hornlike organs; as, a quadricornous beetle.

Having four ribs.

Having four teeth; as, a quadridentate leaf.

Same as Quadrennial.

Arranged in four rows or ranks; as, quadrifarious leaves.

Divided, or deeply cleft, into four parts; as, a quadrifid perianth; a quadrifid leaf.

Four-leaved; having the leaves in whorls of four.

Having four forks, or branches.

A car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast.

Fourfold; having four similar parts, or two pairs of similar parts.

Consisting of four hundred.

Same as Quadrijugous.

Pinnate, with four pairs of leaflets; as, a quadrijugous leaf.

A plane figure having four sides, and consequently four angles; a quadrangular figure; any figure formed by four lines.

The property of being quadrilateral.

Consisting of four letters.

A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded.

According to the French notation, which is followed also upon the Continent and in the United States, a unit with fifteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the fourth power, or the number represented by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.

Having four lobes; as, a quadrilobate leaf.

Having four cells, or cavities; as, a quadrilocular heart.

A small piece of money, in value about a farthing, or a half cent.

Possessing four nodes; as, quadrinodal curves.

A polynomial of four terms connected by the signs plus or minus.

Quadrinomial.

Quadrinomial.

Divided into four parts.

In four parts.

A division or distribution by four, or into four parts; also, a taking the fourth part of any quantity or number.

Having four wings; -- said of insects.

Having four leaves; quadrifoliate.

A galley with four banks of oars or rowers.

A subdivision into four parts.

Having four hoofs; as, a quadrisulcate foot; a quadrisulcate animal.

A word consisting of four syllables.

The quality or state of being quadrivalent; tetravalence.

Having a valence of four; capable of combining with, being replaced by, or compared with, four monad atoms; tetravalent; -- said of certain atoms and radicals; thus, carbon and silicon are quadrivalent elements.

A door, shutter, or the like, having four folds.

Having four valves; quadrivalve.

One of the four /liberal arts/ making up the quadrivium.

The four /liberal arts,/ arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- so called by the schoolmen. See Trivium.

The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person quarter-blooded.

A tetroxide.

A division of the Primates comprising the apes and monkeys; -- so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb. Formerly the Quadrumana were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included man alone.

Having four hands; of or pertaining to the Quadrumana.

An animal having four feet, as most mammals and reptiles; -- often restricted to the mammals.

Having four feet; of or pertaining to a quadruped.

An airplane with four superposed main supporting surfaces. Contrasted with triplane biplane and monoplane. They are now used only for hobbyist or historical activities.

To be multiplied by four; to increase fourfold; to become four times as much.

A collection or combination of four of a kind.

Fourfold; folded or doubled twice.

To make fourfold; to double twice; to quadruple.

The act of making fourfold; a taking four times the simple sum or amount.

To a fourfold quantity; so as to be, or cause to be, quadruple; as, to be quadruply recompensed.

Inquire; question; see; -- used to signify doubt or to suggest investigation.

Same as Questor.

To drink largely or luxuriously.

One who quaffs, or drinks largely.

A quagmire.

A South African wild ass (Equus quagga syn. Hippotigris quagga). The upper parts are reddish brown, becoming paler behind and behind and beneath, with dark stripes on the face, neck, and fore part of the body. The species became extinct in the late 1800's, largely due to excessive hunting.

Of the nature of a quagmire; yielding or trembling under the foot, as soft, wet earth; spongy; boggy.

Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet.

An American market clam (Venus mercenaria). It is sold in large quantities, and is highly valued as food. Called also round clam, and hard clam.

A small shallow cup or drinking vessel.

To curdle; to coagulate, as milk.

The upland plover.

Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily.

Craft; subtlety; cunning.

In a quaint manner.

The quality of being quaint.

A quire; a book.

A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.

One who quakes.

A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends.

Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.

The peculiar character, manners, tenets, etc., of the Quakers.

Like a Quaker.

Resembling Quakers; Quakerlike; Quakerish.

Quakerism.

A wagtail.

The state of being quaky; liability to quake.

a. n. from Quake, v.

In a quaking manner; fearfully.

Shaky, or tremulous; quaking.

Capable of being qualified; abatable; modifiable.

The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified.

That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term or statement.

An officer whose business it is to examine and prepare causes for trial in the ecclesiastical courts.

Fitted by accomplishments or endowments.

In the way of qualification; with modification or qualification.

The state of being qualified.

One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains.

To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment.

Relating to quality; having the character of quality.

Furnished with qualities; endowed.

The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank.

Sickness; disease; pestilence; death.

Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea or sickly languor; inclined to vomit.

See Camass.

Formerly, a genus of plants including the cypress vine (Quamoclit vulgaris, now called Ipom/a Quamoclit). The genus is now merged in Ipom/a.

To bring into a state of uncertainty, perplexity, or difficulty.

The edible drupaceous fruit of an Australian tree (Fusanus acuminatus) of the Sandalwood family; -- called also quandang.

The old squaw.

A flat file having the handle at one side, so as to be used like a plane.