Quadrate

a.

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

a.

Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square.

a.

Square; even; balanced; equal; exact.

a.

Squared; suited; correspondent.

a.

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

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.

a.

The quadrate bone.

a.

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

v. t.

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


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