quadroon, quarter on

& a. [Sp. cuarteron, from Lat. quart us =fourth.] A. As subst.: A 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. "Hated by Creoles and Indians, Mestizos and Quadroons."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. xxiii. B. As adj .: Pertaining to a person of such descent; quarter-blooded. "A marriage between a white planter and a quadroon girl."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. 1. [QUADRU quãd-rox-ide, s . [QUANDRANTOXIDE.] quãd-ru măn, quad-ru-māne, s . MANA.] Any individual of the Quadruman a (q. v.). †quãd-ru-ma-na, s. pl . [Lat. quad rim an us = having four bands.] 1. Zool .: An order of Mammal i a, founded by Cuvier, and containing the Monkeys, Apes, Baboons, and Lemurs (the Linnæan genera Simia and Lemur). Owen divided it into three groups, Catarhina, Platyrhina, and Strep sir hin a. [PRIMATES.] (Cf. Mivart , in Phil . Trans ., 1867, pp. 299-429.) "If we accept, with Prof. Owen [ Anat . Vert . , ii. 553], as the definition of the word 'foot, an extremity in which the hallux forms the fulcrum in standing or walking,' then man alone has a pair of feet. But, anatomically, the foot of apes agrees far more with the foot of man than with his hand, and similarly the ape's hand resembles man's hand, and differs from his foot. Even estimated physiologically, or according to use, the hand throughout the whole order [Primates] remains the prehensile organ par excellence , while the predominant function of the foot, however prehensile it be, is constantly locomotive. Therefore the term Quadruman a is apt to be misleading, since anatomically both apes and man have two hands and a pair of feet."- St . G. Mivart : Man and Apes, P. 89. 2. Palæont.: The earliest known remains are those of Lemuravus (q.v.) from the Eocene of New Mexico. quadrumanous The other genera which present any points of interest are treated separately. [DRYOPITHECUS, PLIOPITHECUS, PRO TO PITH ECUS.] quãd-ru-ma-nous, *quãd-rim-a-nous, a . [Mod. Lat. quadruman ( a ); Eng. adj. suff. -ous.] Having four hands: pertaining to the Quadruman a. "Profe or Huxley maintains that the term Quadrumanous may lead to erroneous conclusions if it be held to mean that the hind hand of a monkey is anatomically homologous with the hand rather than with the foot of man." Lyell: Antiq . Man , p. 326.