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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..

Pesade :: Pesade (n.) The motion of a horse when, raising his fore quarters, he keeps his hind feet on the ground without advancing; rearing..

Septfoil :: Septfoil (n.) An ornamental foliation having seven lobes. Cf. Cinquefoil, Quarterfoil, and Trefoil..

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..

Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) A small upright timber post, used in partitions; -- in the United States more commonly called stud..

Coomb :: Coomb (n.) A dry measure of four bushels, or half a quarter..

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) One of the knees which connect the transoms to the after timbers on the ship's quarter.

Billet :: Billet (v. t.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses..

Quartering :: Quartering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quartte.

Jewry :: "Jewry (n.) Judea; also, a district inhabited by Jews; a Jews' quarter..

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

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

Large :: Large (superl.) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter..

Canton :: Canton (v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops..

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

Quartered :: Quartered (imp. & p. p.) of Quartte.

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

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.

Minim :: Minim (n.) A time note, formerly the shortest in use; a half note, equal to half a semibreve, or two quarter notes or crotchets..

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.

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