Word Meanings - QUARRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See FAIRFAX (more info) quadratus square, quadrate, quadratum a square. See Quadrate, and cf.

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• SQUARE-TOED
  Having the toe square. Obsolete as fardingales, ruffs, and square-toed shoes. V. Knox.
• SQUARELY
  In a square form or manner.
• SQUARE-RIGGED
  Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally by the middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a ship and a brig are square-rigged vessels.
• SQUARE
  An instrument having at least one right angle and two or more straight edges, used to lay out or test square work. It is of several forms, as the T square, the carpenter's square, the try-square., etc. 5. Hence, a pattern or rule. (more
• QUADRATE
  four-cornered, to make square, to square, to fit, suit, from quadrus square, quattuor four. See Quadrant, and cf. Quadrat, Quarry an 1. Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square. Figures, some round, some
• SQUARER
  1. One who, or that which, squares. 2. One who squares, or quarrels; a hot-headed, contentious fellow. Shak.
• SQUARE-TOES
  A precise person; -- used contemptuously or jocularly. Thackeray.
• SQUARENESS
  The quality of being square; as, an instrument to try the squareness of work.
• THREE-SQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• T SQUARE
  See T
• CAPSQUARE
  A metal covering plate which passes over the trunnions of a cannon, and holds it in place.
• CONQUADRATE
  To bring into a square. Ash.
• BIQUADRATE
  The fourth power, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4.
• PTERYGOQUADRATE
  Of, pertaining to, or representing the pterygoid and quadrate bones or cartilages.
• SUBQUADRATE
  Nearly or approximately square; almost square.
• FOURSQUARE
  Having four sides and four equal angles. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SEMIQUADRATE; SEMIQUARTILE
  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.
• TRY-SQUARE
  An instrument used by carpenters, joiners, etc., for laying off right angles off right angles, and testing whether work is square.