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Breastrail :: Breastrail (n.) The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc..

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..

Back :: Back (v. i.) To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.

Astragal :: Astragal (n.) A convex molding of rounded surface, generally from half to three quarters of a circle..

Lituus :: Lituus (n.) A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.

Buttonhole :: Buttonhole (v. t.) To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour..

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

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

Close-fights :: Close-fights (n. pl.) Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close 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..

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..

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds, according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds..

Cribbing :: Cribbing (n.) The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters.

Cardecu :: Cardecu (n.) A quarter of a crown.

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..

Quateron :: Quateron (n.) See 2d Quarteron.

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.

Pigweed :: Pigweed (n.) A name of several annual weeds. See Goosefoot, and Lamb's-quarters..

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

Quarterly :: Quarterly (a.) Recurring during, or at the end of, each quarter; as, quarterly payments of rent; a quarterly meeting..

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