Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Quadrate

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Quadrate


Subjects in this Topic:

(1):

(a.) To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by with.

(2):

(a.) The quadrate bone.

(3):

(a.) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect, 6.

(4):

(a.) A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.

(5):

(a.) Squared; suited; correspondent.

(6):

(a.) Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.

(7):

(a.) Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.

(8):

(a.) Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.

(9):

(v. t.) To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.