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Somewhat squarrose; slightly squarrose. Gray.

See under T.

Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures. Three-quarter length, a portrait showing the figure to the hips only.

Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.

Same as Rouge et noir, under Rouge.

joiners, etc., for laying off right angles off right angles, and testing whether work is square.

Ubiquitous. [R.]

Quartz occurring as gangue in a vein.

Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; as, a vigesimo-quarto form, book, leaf, size, etc.

One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus.

Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant. "Absonant to nature." Quarles.

A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English.

The act of adducing or bringing forward. An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters. I. Taylor.

A tumultuous assault or quarrel; a brawl; a fray. "In the very midst of the affray." Motley.

A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.

To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; -- with on.

The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. Ames.

A small square shield, formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet. Fairholt.

iting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged. The Boyne, for a quarter of a mile, was alive with muskets and green boughs. Macaulay.

A raised structure (as a square or oblong erection of stone or wood) on which sacrifices are offered or incense burned to a deity. Noah builded an altar unto the Lord. Gen. viii. 20.