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A quadrat.

Evil; bad; baffling; as, a quade wind. [Obs.] Sooth play, quad play, as the Fleming saith. Chaucer.

The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like.

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.

Consisting of forty; forty years old.

An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance.

The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent. Quadragesima Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent, about forty days before Easter.

Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten.

Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.

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.

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

A fourth part of the coin called an as. See 3d As, 2.

o which a plane is divided by the coördinate axes. The upper right-hand part is the first quadrant; the upper left-hand part the second; the lower left-hand part the third; and the lower right-hand part the fourth quadrant.

Of or pertaining to a quadrant; also, included in the fourth part of a circle; as, quadrantal space. Quadrantal triangle, a spherical triangle having one side equal to a quadrant or arc of 90º. -- Quadrantal versor, a versor that expresses rotation through one right angle.

ock of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines. [Abbrev. quad.]

e 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.

That branch of algebra which treats of quadratic equations.

Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones.

A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves; as the quadratrix, of Dinostratus, or of Tschirnhausen.