Search the Dictionary

Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome; fighting. --Pug*na"cious*ly, adv. -- Pug*na"cious*ness, n.

Inclination or readiness to fight; quarrelsomeness. " A national pugnacity of character." Motley.

A flat-bottomed boat with square ends. It is adapted for use in shallow waters.

A solid body standing on a triangular, square, or polygonal base, and terminating in a point at the top; especially, a structure or edifice of this shape.

1, 4, 10, 20, 35, etc., are trangular pyramidal numbers; and 1, 5, 14, 30, 55, etc., are square pyramidal numbers.

relations of things. Encyc. Brit. Pythagorean proposition (Geom.), the theorem that the square described upon the hypothenuse of a plane right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described upon the other two sides. -- Pythagorean system (Astron.), the commonly received system of astronomy, first taught…

That may be sqyared, or reduced to an equivalent square; -- said of a surface when the area limited by a curve can be exactly found, and expressed in a finite number of algebraic terms.

A square or quadrangular space or inclosure, such a space or court surrounded by buildings, esp. such a court in a college or public school in England.

The fourth part; the quarter. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A cubical vessel containing a Roman cubic foot, each side being a Roman square foot; -- used as a measure.

An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows.

Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square. Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate. Foxe.

Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square.

The act of squaring; the finding of a square having the same area as some given curvilinear figure; as, the quadrature of a circle; the operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure bounded wholly or in part by a curved line, as by a curve, two ordinates, and the axis of abscissas.

A square piece of turf or peat. [Prov. Eng.]

The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person quarter-blooded. [Written also quarteron, quarteroon, and quateron.]

on; assumed or asserted rank, part, or position. I made that inquiry in quality of an antiquary. Gray.

ral containing only positive integral powers of the variables, and called quadric, cubic, quartic, etc., according as it is of the second, third, fourth, fifth, or a higher degree. These are further called binary, ternary, quaternary, etc., according as they contain two, three, four, or more variables; thus, the quanti…

See 2d Quarteron.

Same as Quarterfoil.