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Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting. Hudibras.

A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole.

Wild; giddy; flighty; rash; thoughtless. [Colloq.] They had a quarrel with Sir Thomas Newcome's own son, a harum-scarum lad. Thackeray.

temporarily displayed, -- usually on the walls of his dwelling. It is lozenge-shaped or square, but is hung cornerwise. It is used in England as a means of giving public notification of the death of the deceased, his or her rank, whether married, widower, widow, etc. Called also achievement. His obscure funeral; No tr…

A square or oblong opening in a deck or floor, affording passage from one deck or story to another; the entrance to a cellar.

A measure of area, or superficies, containing a hundred ares, or 10,000 square meters, and equivalent to 2.471 acres.

A composition of wax and lampblack, used by shoemakers for polishing, and by antiquaries in copying inscriptions.

Of or pertaining to herbs. Quarles.

A shaft in a coal pit; a hollow in a quarry. [Scot.]

Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as, a house built of hewn logs.

A solid body of six sides or faces. Regular hexahedron, a hexagon having six equal squares for its sides; a cube.

That which serves for protection or shelter in winter; winter quarters; as, the hibernacle of an animal or a plant. Martyn.

To winter; to pass the season of winter in close quarters, in a torpid or lethargic state, as certain mammals, reptiles, and insects. Inclination would lead me to hibernate, during half the year, in this uncomfortable climate of Great Britain. Southey.

Niggardly; penurious. [Obs.] Quarles.

or objective case; as, it is himself who saved himself. But he himself returned from the quarries. Judges iii. 19. David hid himself in the field. 1 Sam. xx. 24. The Lord himself shall give you a sign. Is. vii. 14. Who gave himself for us, that he might . . . purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14. With s…

A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing three quarts, one pint, one gill, English measure. W. H. Ward.

A fabulous monster, with the head and fore quarters of a horse joined to the tail of a dolphin or other fish (Hippocampus brevirostris), -- seen in Pompeian paintings, attached to the chariot of Neptune. Fairholt.

pocrates' sleeve, a conical strainer, made by stitching together two adjacent sides of a square piece of cloth, esp. flannel of linen.

ivers of Africa. It is allied to the hogs, and has a very thick, naked skin, a thick and square head, a very large muzzle, small eyes and ears, thick and heavy body, and short legs. It is supposed to be the behemoth of the Bible. Called also zeekoe, and river horse. A smaller species (H. Liberiencis) inhabits Western A…

Of this day; belonging to the present day. [R.] Boyle. Quart. Rev.