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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..

Station :: Station (n.) The headquarters of the police force of any precinct.

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

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

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

Fusarole :: Fusarole (n.) A molding generally placed under the echinus or quarter round of capitals in the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders of architecture..

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

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..

Dingdong :: Dingdong (n.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.

Boomerang :: Boomerang (n.) A very singular missile weapon used by the natives of Australia and in some parts of India. It is usually a curved stick of hard wood, from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then curving upward t

Marshal :: Marshal (v. t.) To dispose in due order, as the different quarterings on an escutcheon, or the different crests when several belong to an achievement..

Gunwale :: Gunwale (n.) The upper edge of a vessel's or boat's side; the uppermost wale of a ship (not including the bulwarks); or that piece of timber which reaches on either side from the quarter-deck to the forecastle, being the uppermost bend, which finishes the upper works of the hull..

Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850..

Quarter-deck :: Quarter-deck (n.) That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one..

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

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..

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

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..

Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To extract the bowels of; to eviscerate; as, to draw a fowl; to hang, draw, and quarter a criminal..

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