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Understair :: Understair (a.) Of or pertaining to the kitchen, or the servants' quarters; hence, subordinate; menial..

Lobby :: Lobby (n.) An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.

Quadroon :: Quadroon (n.) The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person quarter-blooded.

Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters..

Encamp :: Encamp (v. t.) To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters..

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) The fourth part of the moon's period, or monthly revolution; as, the first quarter after the change or full..

Teaspoonful :: Teaspoonful (n.) As much as teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon; -- usually reckoned at a fluid dram or one quarter of a tablespoonful.

Part :: Part (n.) Quarter; region; district; -- usually in the plural.

Bearing :: Bearing (n.) The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W..

Quarterhung :: Quarterhung (a.) Having trunnions the axes of which lie below the bore; -- said of a cannon.

Coigny :: Coigny (n.) The practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody.

Echinus :: Echinus (n.) The quarter-round molding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style. See Illust. of Colum.

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

Cottise :: Cottise (n.) A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close..

Quarteron :: Quarteron (n.) Alt. of Quarteroo.

Gunwale :: Gunwale (n.) The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull..

Barracoon :: Barracoon (n.) A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily..

Springal :: Spring (v. i.) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.

Quartering :: Quartering (n.) A station.

Fast :: Fast (n.) That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring..

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