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Quartter :: Quartter (v. t.) To furnish with shelter or entertainment; to supply with the means of living for a time; especially, to furnish shelter to; as, to quarter soldiers..

Quadrant :: Quadrant (n.) The quarter of a circle, or of the circumference of a circle, an arc of 90¡, or one subtending a right angle at the center..

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp..

Buttonhole :: Buttonhole (v. t.) To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour..

Statoblast :: Stative (a.) Of or pertaining to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters..

Chine :: Chine (n.) A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep..

Quarterly :: Quarterly (n.) A periodical work published once a quarter, or four times in a year..

Quartering :: Quartering (n.) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer..

Frost-blite :: Frost-blite (n.) The lamb's-quarters (Chenopodium album).

Etat Major :: Etat Major () The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers..

Grapple :: Grapple (v. t.) To seize; to lay fast hold of; to attack at close quarters: as, to grapple an antagonist..

Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris..

Quartering :: Quartering (a.) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object..

Midshipman :: Midshipman (n.) Formerly, a kind of naval cadet, in a ship of war, whose business was to carry orders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required..

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin..

Corner :: Corner (n.) Direction; quarter.

Lamb''s-quarters :: Lamb's-quarters (n.) A name given to several plants of the Goosefoot family, sometimes used as pot herbs, as Chenopodium album and Atriplex patulsa..

Handygripe :: Handygripe (n.) Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting..

Breasting :: Breasting (n.) The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel..

Corner :: Corner (n.) An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part..

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