Dictionary
Found: 647 words.
of Grasp
In so far as; in the capacity or character of; as.
The American night heron. See under Night.
Quab
2 defs
An unfledged bird; hence, something immature or unfinished.
The quagga.
Quack
7 defs
A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
See Quitch grass.
of Quackery
The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism.
of Quack
Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery.
Quackery.
To suffocate; to choke.
of Quackle
of Quackle
One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank.
Quad
3 defs
A quadrangle; hence, a prison.
Evil; bad; baffling; as, a quade wind.
Quadra
2 defs
A fillet, or listel.
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 t...
of Quadra
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.
Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten.
Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.
Quadrangle
2 defs
A plane figure having four angles, and consequently four sides; any figure having four angles.
Having four angles, and consequently four sides; tetragonal.
Quadrans
2 defs
A fourth part of the coin called an as. See 3d As, 2.
Quadrant
4 defs
An instrument for measuring altitudes, variously constructed and mounted for different specific uses in astronomy, surveying, gunnery, etc., consisting commonly of a graduated arc ...
Quadrantal
3 defs
A cube.
of Quadrans
Quadrat
2 defs
A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines.
Quadrate
9 defs
A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; a square; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.
of Quadrate
Quadratic
3 defs
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 Quadrate
Quadratojugal
3 defs
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.
Quadrature
4 defs
A quadrate; a square.
Quadrel
2 defs
A square brick, tile, or the like.
Quadrennial
2 defs
Comprising four years; as, a quadrennial period.
Once in four years.
A space or period of four years.
A combining form meaning four, four times, fourfold; as, quadricapsular, having four capsules.
Having four syllables; of or pertaining to quadrisyllables; as, a quadrisyllabic word.
Same as Tetrabasic.
Quadrable.
Quadric
3 defs
A quantic of the second degree. See Quantic.