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e sides parallel, and four right angles; square. Figures, some round, some triangle, some quadrate. Foxe.

th power, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4.

To bring into a square. [R.] Ash.

Of, pertaining to, or representing the pterygoid and quadrate bones or cartilages.

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.

Nearly or approximately square; almost square.

Of or pertaining to the biquadrate, or fourth power. Biquadratic equation (Alg.), an equation of the fourth degree, or an equation in some term of which the unknown quantity is raised to the fourth power. -- Biquadratic root of a number, the square root of the square root of that number. Thus the square root of 81 is…

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

Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones.

A quadrate; a square. Milton.

Quadrate; square. [Obs.]

; opposite, or nearly opposite, a vessel's quarter. -- Quarter aspect. (Astrol.) Same as Quadrate. -- Quarter back (Football), the player who has position next behind center rush, and receives the ball on the snap back. -- Quarter badge (Naut.), an ornament on the side of a vessel near, the stern. Mar. Dict. -- Qua…

Same as Quadrate.

An order of reptiles having biconcave vertebræ, immovable quadrate bones, and many other peculiar osteological characters. Hatteria is the only living genus, but numerous fossil genera are known, some of which are among the earliest of reptiles. See Hatteria. Called also Rhynchocephalia.

The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate. [Obs.]

Plaiting or joining together; -- said of a bone next above the quadrate in the mandibular suspensorium of many fishes, which unites together the other bones of the suspensorium. -- n.