QUADRIBLE
QUAD'RIBLE, adjective [Latin quadro, to square.] That may be squared.
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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QUAD'RIBLE, adjective [Latin quadro, to square.] That may be squared.
QUADRICAP'SULAR, adjective [Latin quadra and capsula.]In botany, having four capsules to a flower; as a quadricapsular pericarp.
QUADRIDEC'IMAL, adjective [Latin quadra and decem.]In crystallography, designating a crystal whose prism or the middle part has four faces and two summits, containing together t...
QUADRIDEN'TATE, adjective [Latin quadra and dentatus, toothed.]In botany, having four teeth on the edge.
QUAD'RIFID, adjective [Latin quadrifidus; quadra and findo, to divide.]In botany, four-cleft, as a quadrifid perianth; cut into four segments, with linear sinuses and straight m...
QUADRIJU'GOUS, adjective [Latin quadra and jugum, yoke.]In botany, pinnate, with four pairs of leaflets; as a quadrijugous leaf.
QUADRILAT'ERAL, adjective [Latin quadra, or quatuor, four, and latus, side.] Having four sides and four angles.QUADRILAT'ERAL, noun A figure having four sides and four angles; a...
QUADRILAT'ERALNESS, noun The property of having four right lined sides, forming as many right angles.
QUADRILIT'ERAL, adjective [Latin quadra, or quatuor, four, and litera, letter.]Consisting of four letters.
QUADRILLE, noun quadril', or cadril'.1. A game played by four persons with 40 cards, being the remainder of the pack after the four tens, nines and eights are discarded.2. A kin...
QUAD'RILOBATE,QUAD'RILOBED, adjective [Latin quadra, or quatuor, four, and lobe, Gr.]In botany, having four lobes; as a quadrilobed leaf.
QUAD'RILOBED, a. [L. quadra, or quatuor, four, and lobe, Gr.]In botany, having four lobes; as a quadrilobed leaf.
QUADRILOC'ULAR, adjective [Latin quadra, quatuor, and loculus, a cell.]Having four cells; four-celled; as a quadrilocular pericarp.
QUAD'RIN, noun [Latin quadrinus.] A mite; a small piece of money, in value about a farthing. [Not in use.]
QUADRINO'MIAL, adjective [Latin quadra, quatuor, and nomen, name.]Consisting of four denominations or terms.
QUADRIP'ARTITE, adjective [Latin quadra, quatuor, and partitus, divided.]Divided into four parts, or consisting of four corresponding parts.
QUADRIP'ARTITELY, adverb In four divisions; in a quadripartite distribution.
QUADRIPARTI'TION, noun A division by four or into four parts; or the taking the fourth part of any quantity or number.
QUADRIPH'YLLOUS, adjective [Latin quadra, quatuor, four, and Gr. leaf.] Having four leaves.
QUAD'RIREME, noun [Latin quadriremis; quatuor, four, and remus, oar.]A galley with four benches of oars or rowers.
QUADRISYL'LABLE, noun [Latin quadra, quatuor, and syllable.] A word consisting of four syllables.
QUAD'RIVALVE,QUAD'RIVALVES, nounplural [Latin quadra, quatuor, and valva, valve.] A door with four folds or leaves.
QUAD'RIVALVES, n. plu. [L. quadra, quatuor, and valva, valve.] A door with four folds or leaves.
QUADRIVALV'ULAR, adjective In botany, having four valves; four-valved; as a quadrivalve pericarp.
QUADRIV'IAL, adjective [Latin quadrivium; quatuor, four, and via, way.] Having four ways meeting in a point.
QUADROON', noun [Latin quadra, quatuor.] In Spanish America, the offspring of a mulatto woman by a white man; a person quarter-blooded.
QUAD'RUMAN, noun [Latin quadra and manus, hand.]An animal having four hands or limbs that correspond to the hands of a man, as a monkey.