quadrate
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Foxes pause ghostlike on the permafrost.With one quadrate eye, the vault reflects a frigid blue sea.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2022
Kemp, T. S. Acoustic transformer function of the postdentary bones and quadrate of a nonmammalian cynodont.
From Nature ● Nov. 12, 2017
Turning is, by definition, a deviation from a forward course—precisely the action that is supposed to be nullified by the hydrodynamic characteristics of your lovely, quadrate bod.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2015
In mammals, the dentary bone joins the skull at the squamosal bone, while in other vertebrates, the quadrate bone of the jaw joins with the articular bone of the skull.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
They include long strips like the vomerine bones in the Lias fossil, and they diverge in the same way as they extend back to the quadrate bones.
From Dragons of the Air An Account of Extinct Flying Reptiles by Seeley, H. G.
The doctrines of Plato formed the basis of his creed, and it required no little ingenuity, to shew how all other theories quadrated with the speculations of the Athenian sage.
From The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution by Killen, W. D. (William Dool)
The young man was pleased with an advice that quadrated with his wishes, and left me, to consult with some other friends on the propriety of instantly following it.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 by Wilson, John Mackay
Arrived at the quadrated point, where the two great avenues we have described intersect, Mr. Huertis boldly demanded of his guide the further course and character of his destination.
On the other hand, the astrological and philosophical priests told such stories of their heavens as perfectly quadrated with these fictions.
From Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." by Bradlaugh, Charles
His revenge deepened, but his smiles and apparent good-humour quadrated with the increased necessity of concealing his designs.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various
He discovered a simpler method of quadrating parabolas than that of Archimedes, and a method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines analogous to that of the then unknown differential calculus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
