3. (Anat.) The quadrate bone.

Quad"rate (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quadrated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.

Quadrating.] [See Quadrate, a.] To square; to agree; to suit; to

correspond; -- followed by with. [Archaic]

The objections of these speculatists of its forms do not quadrate

with their theories.

Burke.

Quad"rate, v. t. To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a

gun) for horizontal firing.

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