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ed a standard English language. Earle. [Charles V.] could address his subjects from every quarter in their native dialect. Prescott.

The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles.

To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.

An ornamenting in squares or cubes.

To totter, as a child in walking. [Obs.] Quarles.

Any small cubical or square body. Words . . . pasted upon little flat tablets or dies. Watts.

To have a difference, cause of variance, or quarrel; to dispute; to contend. We 'll never differ with a crowded pit. Rowe.

Disagreement in opinion; dissension; controversy; quarrel; hence, cause of dissension; matter in controversy. What was the difference It was a contention in public. Shak. Away therefore went I with the constable, leaving the old warden and the young constable to compose their difference as they could. T. Ellwood.…

in demand, or to special sizes as ordered. -- Dimension stone, stone delivered from the quarry rough, but brought to such sizes as are requisite for cutting to dimensions given.

An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.

for its object the discovery of rational values that satisfy given equations containing squares or cubes; as, for example, to find values of x and y which make x2 + y2 an exact square.

To differ in opinion; to hold discordant views; to be at controversy; to quarrel. Who shall decide, when doctors disagree Pope.

iate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart.

Contest; struggle; quarrel. De Foe. Beyond dispute, Without dispute, indisputably; incontrovertibly.

rds; partisan and contentious divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel. Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them. Acts xv. 2. Debates, dissension, uproars are thy joy. Dryden. A seditious person and raiser-up of dissension among the people. Robynson (More's Utopia).…

Marked by dissensions; apt to breed discord; quarrelsome; contentious; factious. -- Dis*sen"tious*ly, adv.

ce. Every particle attracts every other with a force . . . inversely proportioned to the square of the distance. Sir I. Newton.

etc. To exercise exclusive legislation . . . over such district not exceeding ten miles square. The Constitution of the United States.

An apparatus resembling a Jacquard for weaving small figures (usually about 12 - 16 threads, seldom more than 36 - 40 threads).

Of or relating to a doctor, or to the degree of doctor. Doctoral habit and square cap. Wood.