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A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.

Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto.

A cousin within the first four degrees of kindred.

Consisting of four; by fours, or in sets of four.

Composed of, or arranged in, sets of four; quaternary; as, quaternate leaves.

The number four. [Poetic]

The number four. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A poem of fourteen lines; a sonnet. R. H. Stoddard.

The four aces, kings, queens, knaves, or tens, in the game of piquet; -- so called because quatorze counts as fourteen points.

A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately. Dryden.

A card, die. or domino, having four spots, or pips

ny plant or species of the genus Isoetes, cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four-tubed rushlike leaves, rising from a corm, and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the sha…

Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever. -- n. (Med.)

A group of five notes to be played or sung in the time of four of the same species.

A collection of twenty-four sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one twentieth of a ream.

ow often a less number is contained in a greater; thus, the quotient of twelve divided by four is three.

A boat propelled by three rowers with four oars, the middle rower pulling two.

re ranged through seventy degrees Fahrenheit; the gun ranges three miles; the shot ranged four miles.

having her upper deck cut away, and thus reduced to the next inferior rate, as a seventy-four cut down to a frigate. Totten.

the same way to the first. -- Reciprocal proportion (Math.), a proportion such that, of four terms taken in order, the first has to the second the same ratio which the fourth has to the third, or the first has to the second the same ratio which the reciprocal of the third has to the reciprocal of the fourth. Thus, 2:…