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Of or pertaining to a pupil or ward. Johnson.

1. Of or pertaining to pustules; as, pustular prominences; pustular eruptions.

Having four angles, and consequently four sides; tetragonal. -- Quad*ran"gu*lar*ly, adv.

Having four capsules.

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

Having four valves; quadrivalve.

Having five angles or corners.

Relating to the five articles or points; as, the quinquarticular controversy between Arminians and Calvinists. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

Having five cells or loculi; five-celled; as, a quinquelocular pericarp.

Having five valves, as a pericarp.

Of or performance to roots, or the root of a plant.

Order of rhizopods, usually having a siliceous skeleton, or shell, and sometimes radiating spicules. The pseudopodia project from the body like rays. It includes the polycystines. See Polycystina.

Of or pertaining to the Radiolaria. -- n.

Pertaining to the receptacle, or growing on it; as, the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower.

Right-angled; having one or more angles of ninety degrees. -- Rec*tan"gu*lar*ly (r, adv. -- Rec*tan"gu*lar*ness, n.

The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled.

aw, principle, or type, or to established customary forms; normal; symmetrical; as, a regular verse in poetry; a regular piece of music; a regular verb; regular practice of law or medicine; a regular building.

A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.

The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.

To cause to become regular; to regulate. [R.]