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Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state..

Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) Friendship; amity; concord.

Repeater :: Repeater (n.) A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters..

Compote :: Compote (n.) A preparation of fruit in sirup in such a manner as to preserve its form, either whole, halved, or quartered; as, a compote of pears..

Crotchet :: Crotchet (n.) A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a quarter note..

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..

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..

Salary :: Salary (n.) The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire..

Quarter :: Quarter (v. i.) To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels..

Quart :: Quart (n.) The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth..

Waist :: Waist (n.) Hence, the middle part of other bodies; especially (Naut.), that part of a vessel's deck, bulwarks, etc., which is between the quarter-deck and the forecastle; the middle part of the ship..

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint..

Rack :: Rack (n.) The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.

Jibe :: "Jibe (v. i.) To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe..

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.

Picayune :: Picayune (n.) A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit.

Quarter Round :: Quarter round () An ovolo.

Dingdong :: Dingdong (n.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.

Waistcloth :: Waistcloth (n.) A covering of canvas or tarpaulin for the hammocks, stowed on the nettings, between the quarterdeck and the forecastle..

Garrison :: Garrison (n.) A fortified place, in which troops are quartered for its security..

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