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Quader Sandstone – Quamash

Quader Sandstone

a siliceous sandstone of Cretaceous age, with many fossil shells identical with those of the English Chalk.

QUADRAGESIMA ("fortieth"), the Latin name for the whole season of Lent, with its 40 days, but the name is commonly assigned to the first Sunday in Lent.

Quadrangle

a square or foursided court or space surrounded by buildings, as often seen in the buildings of a college, school, etc. In geometry, a figure having four angles, and consequently four sides.

Quadrant

in architecture, the same as QUADRANGLE (q. v.). In geometry, the fourth part of a circle. Nautically, an instrument for making angular measurements. It is now superseded by the SEXTANT (q. v.)

Quadrate Bone

in comparative anatomy, a bone by means of which the rami are articulated with the skull in birds, reptiles, and fishes (often called the hypotympanic bone).

Quadrige

in Roman antiquities, B. C. that a plebeian was elected. They a two-wheeled car or chariot drawn by four horses, harnessed all abreast. In monumental work it is the figure, as thus described, surmounting an arch or main structure.

Quadrilateral

the name given in history to the four fortresses of north Italy-Mantua, Verona, Peschiera, and Legnago which form a sort of outwork to the bastion of the mountains of the Tyrol, and divide the N. plain of the Po into two sections by a most powerful barrier.

Quagga

Equus (Asinus, Gray) quagga, a striped equine form, from South Africa, now nearly extinct.

Height at shoulders about four feet; striped only on head, neck, and shoulders; prevailing color brown; abdomen, legs, and part of tail whitish-gray.

Quail

the genus Coturnix, especially C. communis, or dactylisonans, the latter name having reference to the peculiar dactylic call of the male, which has given rise to the provincial name of wet-my-lips, wet-my-feet, from a supposed similarity of sound. It is widely distributed over the Eastern Hemi-

Quadroon

or QUARTERON, person who is one-quarter negro and three-quarters white; that is, one of whose grandparents was white and the other negro; and one of whose immediate parents was white and the other mulatto. a

Quadrumana

in zoölogy, an order of mammalia, founded by Cuvier, and containing the monkeys, apes, baboons, and lemurs.

Quadruped

the name popularly applied to those higher vertebrate animals which possess four developed limbs. The name is usually restricted to fourfooted mammals.

Quamash

the North American name of Camassia esculenta, a plant of the lily family with an edible bulb.

These bulbs are much eaten by the Indians, and are prepared by baking in a hole dug in the ground, then pounding QUARANTINE use.