quarrel 
Some things arise of strange and quarrelling kind, 
The forepart lion, and a snake behind. 
Cowley, Davideis, ii. 
To quarrel with one's bread and butter, to fall out 
with, or pursue a course prejudicial to, one's own material 
Interests or means of subsistence. = Syn. 2, To jangle, 
bicker, spar. 
II. fntiiK. 1. To find fault with; challenge; 
reprove, as a fault, error, and the like. [Scotch.] 
Say on, my bonny boy, 
Ye'se nae be quarrell'd by me. 
Young Akin (Child's Ballads, 1. 181). 
2f. To disagree or contend with. 
They [Pharisees) envied the work in the substance, but 
they quarrel the circumstance. Donne, Sermons, xviii. 
Fitz. You will not slight me, madam ? 
Wit. Nor you'll not quarrel me? 
B. Jonson, Devil is an Ass, iv. 3. 
3. To affect, by quarreling, in a manner indi- 
cated by a word or words connected: as, to 
quarrel a man out of his estate or rights. 
quarrel 2 (kwor'el), n. [< ME. quarel, < OF. 
quarrel, quarel, carrel, later quarreau, F. car- 
reau = Pr. cairel = Sp. cuadrillo, a small 
square, = It. qtiadretlo, a square tile, a dia- 
mond, a crossbow-bolt, < ML. quadrellus, a 
square tile, a crossbow-bolt, dim. of L. quad- 
rum, a square: see quadrum.] 1. A small 
square, or lozenge, or diamond; a tile or pane 
of a square or lozenge 
form. SpccincaUy-(<i)Asmall 
tile or paving-stone of square 
or lozenge form. (6) A small 
lozenge-shaped pane of glass, 
or a square pane set diagonally, 
used in glazing a window, es- 
pecially in the latticed window- 
frames formerly used in Eng- 
land and elsewhere. 
And let your skynner cut both 
yesortesoftheskynnesinsmale 
peces triangle wyse, lyke half e a 
miarell of a glasse wyndowe. 
Babees Book(E. E. T. S.), p. 247. 
We are right Cornish diamonds. 
Trim. Yes, we cut 
Out quarrels and break glasses 
Quarrels of Window. The 
form illustrated is the "short 
1 "and Rowley, Fair fhTpane measuring ff^ig'. ' 
[Quarrel, ii. 2. 
2. A bolt or arrow having a square or four- 
edged head, especially a cross- 
bow-bolt of such form. 
I sigh [saw) yet arwis reyne, 
And grounde quarels sharpe of steele. 
Rom. of the Rose, 1. 1823. 
Schot sore alle y-vere ; 
Quarels, arwes, they fly smerte ; 
The fyched Men thruj heed & herte. 
Arthur (ed. Furnivall), L 461. 
A seruaunt . . . was found shooting a 
quarrell of a crossebow with a letter. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 87. 
Here be two arblasts, comrades, with 
windlaces and quarrels to the barbican 
with you, and see you drive each bolt 
through a Saxon brain ! 
Scott, Ivanhoe, xxviii. 
3. An instrument with a head 
shaped like that of the Crossbow- 
Quarrel, 2 . bolt, (a) A glaziers' diamond, (b) A kind 
of graver, (c) A stone-masons' chisel. 
quarrel'^ (kwor'el), n. [Early mod. E. also quar- 
rell, quarel; < ME. quarelle, querelle, a quarry, a 
var. of quarrer, < OF. quarrere, a quarry: see 
quarry 2 .] A quarry where stone is cut. Cath. 
Ang., p. 296. 
quarreler, quarreller (kwor'el-er), n. [< ME. 
querelour, < OF. querelour, quereleur, F. querel- 
leur, < quereler, quarrel : see quarrel*, v.] One 
who quarrels, wrangles, or fights. 
Quenche, fals querelour, th e quene of heven th e will quite ! 
Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 66. 
Besides that he 's a fool, he 's a great quarreller. 
Shak., T. N.,1.3. 31. 
quarrelet (kwor'el-et), . [< quarrel 2 + -et.] 
A small square or diamond-shaped piece; a 
small lozenge. 
Some ask'd how pearls did grow and where? 
Then spoke I to my girle 
To part her lips, and shew'd them there 
The quarelets of pearl. 
Ilrrrick, The Rock of Rubies and Quarrie of Pearls. 
quarreller, n. See quarreler. 
quarreloust, quarrelloust (kwor 'el -us), a. 
[Also quarellous; < ME. "querelous, < OF. quere- 
los, quereleux, F. querelleux, < querele, quarrel : 
see quarrel*.] Apt or disposed to quarrel; 
petulant; easily provoked to enmity or con- 
tention ; of things, causing or proceeding from 
quarreling. 
Neither angry without cause, neither quarellous without 
colour. Lyly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 145. 
4895 
As quarrelous as the weasel. 
Shak., Cymbeline, iii. 4. 162. 
And who can tell what huge outrages might amount of 
such quarrelous and tumultuous causes ? 
Q. Harvey, Foure Letters, ii. 
quarrel-pane (kwor'el-pan), . Same as qiinr- 
reP, 1 (6). 
Roland Greeme hath . . . broke a quarrel-pane of glass 
in the turret window. Scott, Abbot, xxxiv. 
quarrel-picker (kwor'el-pik' / er), n. 1. One 
who picks quarrels ; one who is quarrelsome. 
[Rare.] 2. A glazier: with punning allusion 
to quarrel 2 , n., 3 (a). 
quarrelsome (kwor' el-sum), a. [< quarrel + 
-some.] Apt to quarrel ; given to brawls and 
contention; inclined to petty fighting; easily 
irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; 
choleric; petulant; also, proceeding from or 
characteristic of such a disposition. 
He would say I lied: this is called the Countercheck 
Quarrelsome. Shak., As you Like it, v. 4. 86. 
quarrelsomely (kwor 'el- sum -Ii), adv. In a 
quarrelsome manner; with a quarrelsome tem- 
per ; petulantly. 
quarrelsomeness (kwor'el-sum-nes), . The 
state of being quarrelsome ; disposition to en- 
gage in contention and brawls; petulance. 
Although a man by his quarrelsomeness should for once 
have been engaged in a bad action . . . 
Bentham, Introd. to Morals and Legislation, xii. 33, note. 
quarrender (kwor'en-der), n. A kind of apple. 
Dames. [Prov. Eng.] 
He . . . had no ambition whatsoever beyond pleasing 
his father and mother, getting by honest means the maxi- 
mum of red quarrenders and mazard cherries, and going 
to sea when he was big enough. 
Kingsley, Westward Ho, i. 
quarrert, A Middle English form of quarry?. 
quarriable (kwor'i-a-bl), a. [< quarry* + -able.] 
Capable of being quarried. 
The arable soil, the quarriable rock. Emerson. 
quarried (kwor'id), a. [< quarry*- + -ed 2 .] 
Paved with quarries. See quarry 1 , n., 1 (a). 
In those days the quarried parlour was innocent of a 
carpet. George Eliot, Essays, p. 148. 
quarry-hawk 
(b) A small square or lozenge-shaped pane of glass : same 
as quarrel'-, 1 (b). 
The Thieves, . . . taking out some Quaries of the Glass, 
put their Hands in and rob the Houses of their Window 
Curtains. 
Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, 
[I. 74. 
Hartley's rolled coloured-plate, and quarries stamped by 
mechanical pressure, are also largely used where translu- 
cency is required without transparency. 
GlasS'inaking, p. 92. 
2f. A bolt or arrow with a square head : same as 
quarrel 2 , 2. 
quarry 2 (kwor'i), n. ; pi. quarries (-iz). [< ME. 
quarrye, also quar, altered, by confusion with 
quarry*, from earlier quarrer, quarrere, quarer, 
quarere, < OF. quarriere, F. carriers, < ML. 
qi(fidraria, a quarry, a place where stones are 
cut or squared (suggested byLL. quadratarius, 
a stone-cutter, lit. 'a squarer': see quarrier*), 
< L. quadratus, square, pp. of quadrare, make 
square, square: see quarry*, quadrate."] A 
place, cavern, or pit where stones are dug 
from the earth, or separated, as by blasting 
with gunpowder, from a large mass of rock. 
The word mine is generally applied to the excavations 
from which metals, metalliferous ores, and coal are taken ; 
from quarries are taken all the various materials used for 
building, as marble, freestone, slate, lime, cement, rock, 
etc. A quarry is usually open to the day ; a mine is gen- 
erally covered, communicating with the surface by one or 
more shafts. See mine%. 
Thei sale, a litel hem bi-side, a semliche quarrere, 
Vnder an heij hel, al holwe newe diked. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2232. 
That Stone rough in the Quarry grew 
Which now a perfect Venus shews to View. 
Congreve, tr. of Ovid's Art of Love. 
A quarry is an open excavation where the works are 
visible at the surface. Bainbridge, On Mines, p. 2. 
quarry 2 (kwor'i), v. t. ; pret. and pp. quarried, 
ppr. quarrying. [< quarry 2 , n.] To dig or take 
from a quarry: as, to quarry marble. 
Part of the valley, if not the whole of it, has been formed 
by quarrying away the crags of marble and conglomerate 
limestone. B. Taylor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 89. 
Scarped cliff and quarried stone. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, Iv. 
quarry 3 (kwor'i), n. [< ME. querre, kyrre,< OF. 
cuiree, curee, F. curee, quarry, orig. the refuse 
quarrier 1 (kwor'i-er), n. [< ME. quaryour, quer- 
rour,< OF. quarrier,< LL. quadratarius, a stone- p art8 o f an animal slain, given to the hounds 
cutter, < quadratus, squared (saxumquadratum, in its gkin < cuir gki h d B < L ^ Md 
a squared stone) : see quarry 2 . Cf. LL. quadra- 
tor, a stone-cutter, lit. 'squarer,' < quadrare, 
make square: see quadrator, quadrate.] One 
who works in a quarry ; a quarryman. 
Aboute hym lefte he no masoun 
That stoon coude leye, ne querrour. 
Rom. of the Rose, 1. 4149. 
The men of Rome, which were the conquerors of all na- 
tions about them, were now of warriors become quarriers, 
hewers of stone and day laborers. 
Holland, tr. of Livy, p. 35. (Davies.) 
see corium.] If. The refuse parts of an ani- 
mal slain in the chase, given in the skin to the 
hounds: as, to make the quarry (to open and 
skin the animal slain, and give the refuse to 
the hounds). 
When in wet weather the quarrier can sit chipping his 
stone into portable shape. ' Harper's Mag.,LXX.. 243. 
quarrier 2 t, quariert, . [Also currier (see cur- 
rier 2 ); < OF. *quarier, ult. < L. quadratus, 
square: see quarry*, quart*, square?] A wax 
candle, consisting of a square lump of wax with 
a wick in the center. Also called quarion. 
All the endes of quarriers and prickets. 
Ord. and Beg., p. 295. (Halliu-eU.) 
To light the waxen quariers 
The auncient nurce is prest. 
Romeus and Juliet. (Hares.) 
quarry 1 (kwor'i), a. and n. [Early mod. E. 
also quarrey, quary ; < ME. quarry, quarrey, 
quarre, square, thick, < OF. quarre, F. carre, 
square, < L. quadratus, squared, square ; as a 
noun, L. quadratum, neut., a square, a quadrate, 
LL. quadratug, m., a square: see quadrate, of 
which quarry* is a doublet.] I.t a. 1. Square; 
quadrate. 
Quarre" scheld, gode swerd of steil, 
And launce stef, biteand wel. 
Arthour and Merlin, p. 111. (Halliwell.) 
The simplest form of mould is that employed for stamp- 
ing fiat diamond-shaped pieces of glass for quarry glazing. 
Glass-making, p. 88. 
The windows were of small quarry panes. 
Quarterly Rev., CXLVI. 47. 
2. Stout; fat; corpulent. 
Thycke man he was yron, bot he nas nojt wel long ; 
Quarry he was, and wel ymade vorto be strong. 
Rob. of Gloucester, p. 412. 
A quarry, fat man, obesus. Coles, Lat. Diet. (Halliwell.) 
H. n. ; pi. quarries (-iz). 1. A square or loz- 
enge. Specifically (a) A small square tile or paving- 
stone : same as quarrel*, 1 (a). 
To be sure a stone floor was not the pleasantest to dance 
on, but then, most of the dancers had known what it was 
to enjoy a Christmas dance on kitchen quarries. 
George Eliot. 
And after, whenne the hert is splayed and ded, he un- 
doeth hym, and maketh his kyrre, and enquyrreth or re- 
wardeth his houndes, and so he hath gret likynge. 
MS. Bool. 546. (Hattm-ett.) 
Then fersly thay flokked in folk at the laste, 
& quykly of the quelled dere a querre thay maked. 
Sir Qawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1324. 
2. A beast of the chase when pursued or 
slain ; any creature hunted by men or by 
beasts or birds of prey, especially after it has 
been killed. 
I watch'd his eye, 
And saw how falcon-like it tower'd, and flew 
Upon the wealthy quarry. 
Fletcher (and another), False One, iv. 1. 
Asa falcon from the rocky height, 
Her quarry seen, impetuous at the sight, 
Forth-springing instant, darts herself from high. 
Shoots on the wing, and skims along the sky. 
Pope, Iliad, xiii. 92. 
3. Hunted or slaughtered game, or any object 
of eager pursuit. 
And let me use my sword, lid make a quarry 
With thousands of these quarter'd slaves. 
Shale., Cor., i. 1. 202. 
quarry 3 * (kwor'i), v. [< quarry^, n.] I. in- 
trans. To prey, as a vulture or harpy. 
Like the vulture that is day and night quarrying upon 
Prometheus's liver. Sir R. L'Estrange. 
II. trans. To provide with prey. 
Now I am bravely quarried. Beau, and Ft. 
A soldier of renown, and the first provost 
That ever let our Roman eagles fly 
On swarthy .SSgypt, quarried with her spoils. 
B. Jonson, Poetaster, v. 1. 
quarry-faced (kwor'i-fast), a. Rough-faced, 
as taken from 
the quarry: 
noting a type 
of building- 
stone and ma- 
sonry built of 
such stone. 
quarry : hawk 
' i - hak), Quarry-faced or Rock faced Masonry. 
