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Corner :: Corner (n.) Direction; quarter.

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

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

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..

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..

Maximilian :: Maximilian (n.) A gold coin of Bavaria, of the value of about 13s. 6d. sterling, or about three dollars and a quarter..

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

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

Nail :: Nail (a.) A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard..

Larboard :: Larboard (a.) On or pertaining to the left-hand side of a vessel; port; as, the larboard quarter..

Chine :: Chine (n.) A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep..

Right-about :: Right-about (n.) A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about..

Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) Treatment shown by an enemy; mercy; especially, the act of sparing the life a conquered enemy; a refraining from pushing one's advantage to extremes..

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

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..

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..

Statoblast :: Stative (a.) Of or pertaining to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters..

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

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

Quadrant :: Quadrant (n.) The fourth part; the quarter.

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