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Point :: Point (n.) A dot placed at the right hand of a note, to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half, as to make a whole note equal to three half notes, a half note equal to three quarter notes..

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

Fourpence :: Fourpence (n.) A name formerly given in New England to the Spanish half real, a silver coin worth six and a quarter cents..

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

Depot :: Depot (n.) The headquarters of a regiment, where all supplies are received and distributed, recruits are assembled and instructed, infirm or disabled soldiers are taken care of, and all the wants of the regiment are provided for..

Chetvert :: Chetvert (n.) A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels..

Quarterage :: Quarterage (n.) A quarterly allowance.

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

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..

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

Quartermaster :: Quartermaster (n.) A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master..

Quarterly :: Quarterly (a.) Containing, or consisting of, a fourth part; as, quarterly seasons..

Ghetto :: Ghetto (n.) The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city.

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..

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.

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

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

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.

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys..

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

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