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ater growing in water; living in, swimming in, or frequenting the margins of waters; as, aquatic plants and fowls.

Aquatic. [R.]

Inhabiting the water. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

A kind of etching in which spaces are bitten by the use of aqua fortis, by which an effect is produced resembling a drawing in water colors or India ink; also, the engraving produced by this method.

Shaped like a bow; arcuate; curved. [R.]

Squatting.

A squad of inapt recruits assembled for special drill.

The fourth power, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4.

Of or pertaining to the biquadrate, or fourth power. Biquadratic equation (Alg.), an equation of the fourth degree, or an equation in some term of which the unknown quantity is raised to the fourth power. -- Biquadratic root of a number, the square root of the square root of that number. Thus the square root of 81 is…

A metal covering plate which passes over the trunnions of a cannon, and holds it in place.

A position in thrusting or parrying, with the inside of the hand turned upward and the point of the weapon toward the adversary's right breast.

ystem of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.

chestnut. Also, its small, sweet, edible nat. [Written also chincapin and chinkapin.] Chinquapin oak, a small shrubby oak (Quercus prinoides) of the Atlantic States, with edible acorns. -- Western Chinquapin, an evergreen shrub or tree (Castanopes chrysophylla) of the Pacific coast. In California it is a shrub; in Ore…

Glittering; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery. [Obs.] Shak.

Being on an equality in rank or power. -- n.

The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power.

With coequality.

Liable to melt, grow soft, or become fluid. [Obs.] Harvey.

The first rudiments of an embryo in generation. Dr. H. More.

ange from solid to fluid; to make or become liquid; to melt. [Obs.] The ore of it is colliquated by the violence of the fire. Boyle. [Ice] will colliquate in water or warm oil. Sir T. Browne.