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Inch :: Inch (n.) A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise. It is also sometimes called a prime ('), composed of twelve seconds (''), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic..

Semidome :: Semidome (n.) A roof or ceiling covering a semicircular room or recess, or one of nearly that shape, as the apse of a church, a niche, or the like. It is approximately the quarter of a hollow sphere..

Breastwork :: Breastwork (n.) A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle.

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

Weather :: Weather (a.) Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc..

Quarteroon :: Quarteroon (n.) A quadroon.

Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90¡, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect, 6..

Quarteron :: Quarteron (n.) A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred..

Broadcloth :: Broadcloth (n.) A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide..

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

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

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

Half-moon :: Half-moon (n.) The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated..

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..

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

Eking :: Eking (v. t.) The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery.

Region :: Region (n.) One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract..

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

Casemate :: Casemate (n.) A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops..

Ward :: Ward (n.) A division, district, or quarter of a town or city..

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