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A position in thrusting or parrying, with the inside of the hand turned upward and the point of the weapon toward the adversary's right breast.

Having four sides and four equal angles. Sir W. Raleigh.

The quarters or place of residence of any chief officer, as the general in command of an army, or the head of a police force; the place from which orders or instructions are issued; hence, the center of authority or order. The brain, which is the headquarters, or office, of intelligence. Collier.

Quartation.

Pertaining to, or invented by, Jacquard, a French mechanician, who died in 1834. Jacquard apparatus or arrangement, a device applied to looms for weaving figured goods, consisting of mechanism controlled by a chain of variously perforated cards, which cause the warp threads to be lifted in the proper succession for pro…

A name given to several plants of the Goosefoot family, sometimes used as pot herbs, as Chenopodium album and Atriplex patulsa.

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

A depositary, often a small box or casket, in which relics are kept.

An aspect of the planets when distant from each other the half of a quadrant, or forty-five degrees, or one sign and a half. Hutton.

Hence, anything which is square, or nearly so; as:

lly by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.

Having the toe square. Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. V. Knox.

A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly. Thackeray.

In a square form or manner.

The quality of being square; as, an instrument to try the squareness of work.

One who, or that which, squares.

Nearly square. Pennant.

Ragged or full of lose scales or projecting parts; rough; jagged; as:

Having the teeth bent out of the plane of the lamina; -- said of a leaf.

Squarrose.