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QUADRANGLE.
i$6a BOLLEYN Bk. Simples 47 b, The garden Madder, with
quadrangle stalks. 1575 T. ROGERS Sec. Coming Christ
39/2 The Greeke letter x rather betokenetb the quadrangle
figure. 1601 HOLLAND Pliny 1. 13 In the quadrangle aspect
of the Sun she [the Moon] appeareth diuided in halfe : in
the triangle she is well neere inuironed.
Quadrangled (kwg-dnerjg'ld, kwgdrse-rjg'ld),
a.
[f. as prec. + -ED 2 .]
1. = QUADRANGULAB. Now rare or Obs.
1551 in HULOET. 1570 BILLINCSLEV Euclid i. xxxit 42 The
Cone . . Sharp pointed, and quadrangularry long. 1875 H . C.
WOOD Therap. (1879) 322 Quadrangularly prismatic crystals.
t Quadra'ttgulate, a. Obs. rare. [ad. late
L. quadrangulat-us (Tertull., Vulg.) ; see QUAD-
RANGLE sb. and -ATE 2.] Made quadrangular ;
squared.
1593 R. D. Hypnerotomachia sb, The pointed quad rangulate
Corner stones. 1599 R. LINCHE Fount. Anc. Fict.
H iv, A certaine squared and quadrangulate circle.
Hence f Quadra-ngnlateuess, the state or condition
of having four corners. Obs. rare.
1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirvrg. 53/2 Through
the quadrangulatenes therof it cutteth .. al that wheron it
glaunceth.
t Quadranguled, a. Obs. rare*- 1 ,
[cf. prec.]
= QUADRANGLED.
159* R. D. Hypnerotomachia 4 b, Hir charmes and quadranguled
plaints. [A mistranslation].
Quadrant (kwg-drant), sbl Also 5-6 -ent, 7
-an. [ad. L. quadrans, quadrant- fourth part,
quarter (spec, of an as, an acre, a foot, a pound,
a sextarius, a day ; cf. the senses below), f. quadrfour-
: see QUADRI-.]
1 1. A quarter of a day ; six hours. Obs.
4
SMITH Seaman's Gram. xiv. 68 The Gunners quadrant is to
leuell a Peece or mount hertoany randon. ifaSCHiLMEAD
tr. Hues' Treat. Globes (1889) 102 Observe the Meridian
Altitude of the Sunne with the crosse starTe, quadrant, or
other like instrument. 1696 PHILLIPS (ed. 5), David's [1706
Davis's\ Quadrant, an Instrument us'd by Seamen, wherewith
they observe the height of the Sun with their Backs
toward it. 1774 M. MACKENZIE Maritime Surv. 10 With
a Theodolite, or . Hadley's Quadrant . take the Angles
YXA, YXB, YXC. 1848 DICKENS Dombey iv, The stock
in trade of this old gentleman comprised . . sextants, and
quadrants. 1897 F. T. BULLEN Cruise Cachalot 100 Anything
.. more out of date than his 'hog-yoke', or quadrant,
I have never seen.
6. attrib. and Comb., as quadrant cell, lever \
quadrant-like, -shaped adjs. ; quadrant-compass,
a carpenter's compass with an arc to which one leg
may be screwed (Knight Diet* Meek. ; 1875) quadrant-electrometer,
an electrometer in which the
index moves through a quarter of a circle; quad-
rant steam-engine, an engine in which the piston
oscillates through a sector of a circle, instead of
sliding along a cylinder (Knight Diet* Afech.).
1816 J. SMITH Panorama Sc.