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A geographical antiquary; one who investigates the locality of ancient places.

The beginning and the ending. [Obs.] Quarles.

A small, low pillar, square or round, commonly having an inscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for indicating the distances of places, for a landmark, for sepulchral inscriptions, etc. Gwilt.

ose whose powers terminate in the same digits as the roots themselves; as 5 and 6, whose squares are 25 and 36. Bailey. Barlow. -- Circular points at infinity (Geom.), two imaginary points at infinite distance through which every circle in the plane is, in the theory of curves, imagined to pass. -- Circular polarizat…

Vigilance un guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. [Travel] forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.

A yellow, pellucid variety of quartz.

ween the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear.

or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yard. To clew down (Naut.), to force (a yard) down by hauling on the clew lines. -- To clew up (Naut.), to draw (a sail) up to the yard, as for furling.

A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore- and-aft sail. (b.)

rly used in England, made by cutting notches and figures on the four edges of a clog, or square piece of wood, brass, or bone; -- called also a Runic staff, from the Runic characters used in the numerical notation. -- Clog dance, a dance performed by a person wearing clogs, or thick-soled shoes. -- Clog dancer.…

Narrow; confined; as, a close alley; close quarters. "A close prison." Dickens.

l to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters. [Obs.]

The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes. I'll ne'er distust my God for cloth and bread. Quarles.

To quard with an iron plate, as an axletree.

A cabin on the after part of the quarterdeck, usually occupied by the captain. [Written also couch.] [Obs.] The commanders came on board and the council sat in the coach. Pepys.

ally weigh from eighteen to twenty-eight pounds. They have the head of fair length, with square muzzle, the ears long and set low, the legs short or of medium length, and the coat fine and silky, wavy but not curly. Various colors are bred, as black, liver, red, black and white, black and tan, etc.

The practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody. [Ireland] Spenser.

To acquire rapidly, as money; to make. Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day. Locke.

The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.

es, the other 36 inches. -- Numbers, or Quantities, commensurable in power, those whose squares are commensurable.