Crossword-Solution: QUADRATS
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Kind of apple
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EAETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with QUADRATS (5)
The upper case contains capitals, small capitals, accented; the lower case contains the small letters, figures, marks of punctuation, quadrats, and spaces.
The Chaplain was just making butter-vignettes; I mean, he was cutting, with no other etching-tool than a penknife, and into no other copperplate except potatoes, printers' tail-pieces and quadrats, which were to be stamped on the July butter by way of ornament.
The letter should have no shoulder, but should rise in a straight line from the foot; the spaces, leads, and quadrats are of the same height as the stem of the letter; the object being to diminish the number and depth of the cavities in the page, and thus lessen the chances of the mould breaking off and remaining in the form.
The lower case has fifty-three compartments, and contains the smaller or “lower case” letters, points, spaces, and quadrats.
They are of several kinds, according to the dimensions of the whites or intervals to be made by them, _viz._, quadrats, to fill up a break at the end of a paragraph, or the like; em quadrats, which are square and of the thickness of an m, serving to make the distance after a period, or between sentence and sentence; en quadrats, of the thickness of an n, to be placed after colons, semicolons, exclamations, and interrogations; and thick or thin spaces, to be used between the words in justifying, as above.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1967).