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Fardingdeal :: Fardingdeal (n.) The fourth part of an acre of land.

Gill :: Gill (n.) A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint..

Chout :: Chout (n.) An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue.

X :: X () X, the twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet, has three sounds; a compound nonvocal sound (that of ks), as in wax; a compound vocal sound (that of gz), as in example; and, at the beginning of a word, a simple vocal sound (that of z), as in xanthic. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 217, 270, 271..

Quadrans :: Quadrans (n.) The fourth of a penny; a farthing. See Cur.

Farthing :: Farthing (n.) The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency..

Trident :: Trident (n.) A curve of third order, having three infinite branches in one direction and a fourth infinite branch in the opposite direction..

Bissextile :: Bissextile (n.) Leap year; every fourth year, in which a day is added to the month of February on account of the excess of the tropical year (365 d. 5 h. 48 m. 46 s.) above 365 days. But one day added every four years is equivalent to six hours each year, which is 11 m. 14 s. more than the excess of the real year. Hence, it is necessary to suppress the bissextile day at the end of every century which is not divisible by 400, while it is retained at the end of those which are divisible by 400..

Fourth :: Fourth (a.) Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.

Quarto :: Quarto (n.) Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size..

Jovinianist :: "Jovinianist (n.) An adherent to the doctrines of Jovinian, a monk of the fourth century, who denied the virginity of Mary, and opposed the asceticism of his time..

Quadrans :: Quadrans (n.) A fourth part of the coin called an as. See 3d As, 2..

Fifth :: Fifth (a.) Next in order after the fourth; -- the ordinal of five.

Naked :: Naked (a.) Not having the full complement of tones; -- said of a chord of only two tones, which requires a third tone to be sounded with them to make the combination pleasing to the ear; as, a naked fourth or fifth..

Sixty-fourth :: Sixty-fourth (a.) Constituting or being one of sixty-four equal parts into which a thing is divided.

Quadrantal :: Quadrantal (a.) Of or pertaining to a quadrant; also, included in the fourth part of a circle; as, quadrantal space..

Quart :: Quart (n.) A measure of capacity, both in dry and in liquid measure; the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints..

Proportion :: Proportion (n.) The equality or similarity of ratios, especially of geometrical ratios; or a relation among quantities such that the quotient of the first divided by the second is equal to that of the third divided by the fourth; -- called also geometrical proportion, in distinction from arithmetical proportion, or that in which the difference of the first and second is equal to the difference of the third and fourth..

Inversion :: Inversion (n.) Said of intervals, when the lower tone is placed an octave higher, so that fifths become fourths, thirds sixths, etc..

Iter :: Iter (n.) A passage; esp., the passage between the third and fourth ventricles in the brain; the aqueduct of Sylvius..

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