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man for doing some service, as much as it 

 merits or deserves. Quantum valebat, or 

 valebant, an action to recover of the de- 

 fendant for goods sold as much as they were 

 worth. 



QuA-atJA-vER'sAL, Lat. qiutquA, on every 

 side, and versus, inclined. Inclined to 

 every side : facing all ways, as the quaqua- 

 versal dip of coal-beds. 



QUARANTINE, Ital. quarantina, forty. 

 Properly, the space of forty days ; appro- 

 priately, the regulation by which a ship 

 arriving in port, and suspected of being 

 infected with plague, or other malignant 

 contagious disease, is obliged to forbear 

 all intercourse for the space of forty days. 

 See LAZARETTO. 



QUA'RE (Latin). Wherefore, for what 

 reason. A term in law, affixed to the 

 title of several writs. 



QUA'RE IMPEDIT (Lat.). A writ lying 

 for one who has a right of advowson 

 against one who disturbs him by present- 

 ing a clerk when the church is vacant. 



QUAR'REL, "Welch qwarel. 1. An arrow 



with a square head. 2. A pane of glass, 



a square. See QUARRY. 



QUAR'RY, Fr. carrt, for quarrf. 1. The 

 .same as quarrel (q.v.). 2. In falconry, 

 from Fr. querir (?), to fetch: the game 



which a hawk pursues or has killed. 



3. Fr. carriire, an artificial excavation, 

 formed in rocky ground, for the purpose 

 of obtaining marble, stone, slate, &c. 



QUAR'TAN. Febrisquartana. The fourth- 

 day ague ; the exacerbations occurring 

 every fourth day. 



QUARTA'TION. An operation in assaying, 

 by which the quantity of one thing is 

 made equal to the quarter or fourth part 

 of the quantity of another thing. Thus, 

 in refining gold, it is alloyed with three 

 parts of silver, so that the gold may "con- 

 stitute only one quarter of the mass, 

 and thereby have its particles too far se- 

 parated to be able to protect the other 

 motals originally associated with it, such 

 as silver, copper, lead, tin, &c., from the 

 action of the acids employed in the pro- 

 cesses of parting. 



QUAR'TER, Lat. quartus. The fourth 

 part. Thus the fourth part of 112 Ibs., or 

 28 Ibs., is called a quarter; eight bushels 

 ( fourth of a ton) is a quarter of grain ; the 

 fourth part of the moon's monthly revo- 

 lution is called a quarter, and is either 

 first, second, third, or last. 



QUAR'TER-CLOTHS. In ships, long pieces 

 of painted canvas, extending on the out- 

 side of the quarter-netting, from the 

 upper part of the gallery to the gangway. 



QUAR'TER-DAYS. In law, these are the 

 25th of March, or Lady-day; the 24th of 

 June, or Midsummer-day ; tt.r 29th of 

 September, or Michaelmas-day ; and the 

 23th of December, or Christmas-day. 



QuAn'iEa-DECK 'of a ship). The short 



upper deck from the foremost cud of the 

 main-chains to the stern. 



QUARTERING. In heraldry, the dividing 

 of a coat of arms into quarters, by part- 

 ing, couping, &c. by perpendicular and 

 horizontal lines. 



QUAR'TER-MAS'TER. 1. An officer in the 

 navy, who assists the mates in their du- 

 ties, in stowing the hold, coiling ropes, 

 keeping time by the watch-glasses, &c. 

 2. An officer in the army , whose busi- 

 ness it is to attend to the quarters for the 

 soldiers, their provisions, fuel, forage, &c. 

 The quartermaster-general marks the 

 marches and encampments of the army, 

 the head-quarters, &c., &c. 



QUAR'TER-RAILING. In a ship, narrow- 

 moulded planks, reaching from the top of 

 the stern to the gangway, serving as a 

 fence to the quarter-deck. 



QUAR'TER-ROUND. In architecture, the 

 same as oi-olo (q.v.). 



QUAR'TERS. 1. A place of temporary 

 residence, as the winter-quarters of an 



army. 2. In farriery, the quarters of a 



horse's foot are the sides of the coffin, be- 

 tween the toe and heel. False quarters 

 are a cleft in the horn of the hoof, extend- 

 ing from the coronet to the shoe. 3. In 



house-carpentry, slender pieces of timber 

 placed between the puncheons and the 



Cts, to nail the laths to, in partitions. If 

 r-inch thick they are called double 

 quarters. 4. The stations of a ship's 

 crew in time of action. 



QUAR'TER SESSIONS. In laic, a general 

 court, held quarterly by the justices of 

 peace of each county, with jurisdiction to 

 try and determine felonies and trespasses. 



QUARTET'TO, ) (Italian). Amusicalcom- 



QUARTET'TE. j position for four voices, 

 or for four instruments. 



QUAR'TILE. In astrology, an aspect of 

 the planets when they are three signs or 

 90 degrees distant from each other : 

 quadrate. 



QOAR'TINE. The fourth envelope, from 

 the outside, of the vegetable ovulum. 



QUAR'TO, Lat. quartus. A book in which 

 every sheet beinp twice doubled makes 

 four leaves. 



QCARTZ, Fr. for Germ, qttars. Rock 

 crystal. Silex in its purest form occurring 

 in 6-sided prisms, with pyramidal points : 

 primitive form a rhomboid. It is strictly 

 an oxide of silicium (silicon according to 

 some). It melts before the oxy-hydrogen 

 blow-pipe into a white glass, but cannot 

 be fused by the common blow-pipe, ex- 

 cept when mixed with alkalies. It is an 

 ingredient in every rock, and many of the 

 gems are simply quartz combined with 

 some oxide, which gives the colour, as 

 the amethyst, opal, and Bristol diamond. 



QUARTZ SIN'TER. A mineral found in 

 the form of siliceous concretions. 



QCART'ZOSB ROCK. A primary unstra- 



