quarry-hawt 
n. An old entered and reclaimed hawk. Hal- 
liwell. 
quarrying-machine (kwor'i-ing-ma-shen"), . 
A form of gang-drill for cutting channels in 
native rock; a rock-drill. Such machines are usu- 
ally combined in construction with the motor which oper- 
ates them, and are placed on a railway-track for conve- 
nience in moving them along the surface of the stone to be 
cut. 
quarryman (kwor'i-man), n.; pi. quarrymen 
(-men). [< quarry 2 + ' man.'] A man who is 
occupied in quarrying stones. 
quarry-slave (kwor'i-slav), n. A slave com- 
pelled to work in a quarry. 
Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, 
Scourged to his dungeon. Bryant, Thanatopsls. 
quarry-water (kwor'i-wa"ter), . The water 
which is mechanically held between the par- 
ticles of a newly quarried rock, and which 
gradually disappears by evaporation when this 
is kept from exposure to the weather. A part of 
this water only disappears after the rock has been heated 
to the boiling-point, and this is usually called hygroscopic 
moisture. The quantity of qnarry-water held by rocks 
varies greatly in amount, according to their composition 
and texture. Some rocks which are so soft that they can 
be cut with a saw or chisel when freshly quarried become 
much harder after exposure to the air for a few weeks. 
The longer the stone (limestone] has been exposed to 
the air, the less fuel will be consumed in driving off its in- 
herent moisture, or quarry-water. 
Spans' Eneyc. Jfanuf., I. 619. 
quart 1 (kwart), . [< ME. quarte, < OF. quarte, 
F. quarte, f., < L. quarta (sc. pars), a fourth 
part; cf. OF. quart, F. quart, m., = Sp. cuarto 
= Pg. quarto = It. quarto, fourth, a fourth part, 
quarter; < L. quartus, fourth (= E. fourth), ap- 
par. for *quaturtus, with ordinal (superl.) for- 
mative -tus (E. -th), < quattitor = E. four : see 
four, and compare quadrate, quarter*, etc.] If. 
A fourth part or division ; a quarter. 
And Camber did possesse the Western quart. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. x. 14. 
2. A unit of measure, the fourth part of a gal- 
lon; also, a vessel of that capacity. Every gallon 
of liquid measure has a quart, and in the United States 
there is a quart of dry measure, although the use of the 
gallon of that measure is confined to Great Britain. In 
England the peck, or fourth part of a bushel, is sometimes 
called a quart. 
1 United States liquid quart = 0.9468 liter. 
1 United States dry quart = 1.1017 liters. 
1 imperial quart = 1.1369 liters. 
1 Scotch quart = 3.898 liters. 
Before the adoption of the metric system, there were mea- 
sures of capacity corresponding to the quart in almost 
every part of Europe. 
Go fetch me a quart of sack ; put a toast in 't. 
Shale., M. W. of W.,iii. 6.3. 
Yet would you . . . rail upon the hostess, . . . 
Because she brought stone jugs and no seal'd quarts. 
Shak., T. of the S., Ind., ii. S9. 
Olass bottles of all qualities I buys at three for a half- 
penny, . . . but very seldom indeed 2rf., unless it 's some- 
thing very prime and big like the old quarts. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 122. 
3. Ill mime, the interval of a fourth: prefixed 
to the name of an instrument, it denotes one 
pitched a fourth lower or a fourth higher than 
the ordinary instrument. 
A succession of parallel quarts, quints, and octaves, 
which would be intolerable to modern ears. 
The Academy, Jan. 18, 1890, p. 61. 
4. In Gloucestershire and Leicestershire, Eng- 
land, three pounds of butter; in the Isle of 
Man, seven pounds that is, the fourth part 
of a quarter. 5. A Welsh measure of length 
or surface ; a pole of 3^ to 4J yards. 
quart 2 (kart), . [< F. quarte, a sequence of 
foui 1 cards at piquet, also a position in fencing ; 
particular uses of quarte, a fourth : see quarfi.] 
1. In card-playing, a sequence of four cards. 
A quart major is a sequence of the highest four 
cards in any suit. 
If the elder hand has quart major and two other Aces, 
the odds are only 6 to 4 against his taking in either the 
Ten to his quart, or another Ace. 
The American Hoyle, p. 136. 
2. One of the eight thrusts and parries in fen- 
cing. A thrust in quart is a thrust, with the nails up- 
ward, at the upper breast, which is given direct from the 
ordinary position taken by two fencers when they engage, 
the left of their foils touching. A parry in quart guards 
this blow. It is produced by carrying the hand a few 
Inches to the left without lowering hand or point. Quart 
and tierce, practice between fencers, one thrusting in 
quart and tierce (see tierce) alternately, and the other parry- 
ing in the same positions. It is confounded with tirer au 
mur (fencing at the wall), which is simply practice for the 
legs, hand, and eyes against a stationary mark, usually a 
plastron hung on the wall. 
The assassin stab of time was parried by the quart and 
tierce of art. Smollett, tr. of Gil Bias, iv. 7. 
How subtle at tierce and quart of mind with mind ! 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, W. G. Ward. 
4896 
quartet, " [ME. quart, quarte, qirarti*, t/iirrt, 
qu'ert, ickert ; origin obscure.] Safe; sound; in 
good health. Prompt. Pare., p. 420. 
quart'H, [ME. quart, qtcart, qi(erte; < quart 3 , 
a.] Safety; health. 
Againe alle our care hit is our quert. 
Uoly Rood(E. E. T. S.), p. 108. 
A ! worthy lorde, wolde thou take heede, 
I am full olde and oute of qwarte, 
That me Hste do no dales dede, 
Bot yf gret mystir me garte. York Plays, p. 41. 
With lieaute and with bodyly quarte 
To serve the I toke noone heede. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 174. 
Loue us helith, & makith in qwart, 
And liftith us up in-to heuene-riche. 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 23. 
quartan (kwar'tan), a. and . [Early mod. E. 
also quartain; < ME. quarteync, < OF. quartaine, 
F. quartaine = Pr. quartana, cartana = Sp. cuar- 
tana = Pg. quartSo = It. quartana, < L. quar- 
tana (sc. febris), quartan fever, fern, of quar- 
tanus, of or pertaining to the fourth, < quartus, 
fourth : see quarfl.] I. a. Having to do with the 
fourth ; especially, occurring every fourth day : 
as, a quartan ague or fever (one which recurs 
on the fourth day that is, after three days). 
The quartan-fever, shrinking every limb, 
Sets me a-capering straight. 
Ford, Perkin Warbeck, ill. 2. 
The sins shall return periodically, like the revolutions 
of a quartan ague. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 104. 
II. M. 1. An intermitting ague that occurs 
every fourth day, both days of consecutive oc- 
currence being counted, as on Sunday, Wednes- 
day, Saturday, Tuesday, etc. 
After you felt your selfc delinered of your qtiartainr. 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 13. 
The quartern is gendrid of myche haboundaunce of mal- 
encolye that is corrumpid withinne the body. 
Booke of (juinte Essence (ed. Furnivall), p. 20. 
2. A measure containing the fourth part of 
some other measure. 
quartanert, [ME. quartenare, < ML. quar- 
tenarius, (. quartana, the quartan: see quartan.] 
One who has the quartan. 
quartation (kwar-ta'shon), n. [< L. quartus, 
fourth (see quart 1 ), + -ation.~\ The parting of 
gold and silver by the use of nitric acid, it is so 
called because an alloy consisting of more than one part of 
gold to three parts of silver is very little affected hy the 
acid ; hence it is necessary, in the case of alloys very rich in 
gold, to fuse them with so much additional silver that the 
gold shall form not more than a fourth of the whole. 
In that operation that refiners call quartation, which 
they employ to purify gold, three parts of silver are so ex- 
quisitely mingled by fusion with a fourth part of gold 
(whence the operation is denominated) that the resulting 
mass acquires several new qualities by virtue of the com- 
position. Boyle, Works, I. 504. 
quart d'6cut (karda-ku'). [F.] An old French 
coin : same as cardecu. 
Sir, for a quart-d'fcu he will sell the fee-simple of his 
salvation. Shale., All's Well, iv. 8. 311. 
quarte (kart), n. [F., lit. a fourth part: see 
quart 1 , quart 2 .} Same as quart 2 . 
quarter 1 (kwar'ter), . [< ME. quarter, quar- 
tere, dial, icharter, quarter (= D. kwartier = 
G. quartier = Sw. quarter = Dan. kvarteer, quar- 
ter), < OF. quartier, quarter, earlier, a fourth 
part, quarter, as of mutton, etc., = Sp. cuartel 
= Pg. quartet = It. quartiero, quartiere, quarter, 
< L. quartarius, a fourth part of any measure, 
esp. of a sextarius, a quarter, quartern, ML. 
quartarius, also neut. quartarium, also (after 
Rom.) quartering, quarterium, a quarter, etc.,< 
L. quartus, fourth: see quart 1 . Cf. quarter^.] 1. 
One of four equal or equivalent parts into which 
anything is or may be divided ; a fourth part 
or portion ; one of four equal or corresponding 
divisions. 
I have a kinsman not past three quarters of a mile hence. 
Shale., W. T., iv. 3. 85. 
Specifically (a) The fourth part of a yard or of an ell. 
The stuarde in honde schalle haue a stafe, 
A fyngur gret, two wharters long. 
To reule the men of court ymong. 
Babees Boo*(E. E. T. S.), p. 310. 
His arrowes were flue quarters long, headed with the 
splinters of a white christalMike stone. 
Capt. John Smith, Works, I. 120. 
(6) The fourth part of a hundredweight that is, 28 
pounds, the hundredweight being equal to 112 pounds. 
Abbreviated qr. (c) In England, as a legal measure of 
capacity, eight bushels. Locally, 16, 12, or 9 bushels, 8 
bushels and 3 pecks, or 8 bushels, 2 pecks, and 2J quarts 
are variously called a quarter. 
Holding land on which he could sow three-quarters of 
an imperial quarter of corn and three imperial quarters of 
potatoes. Quarterly Kev., CLXII. 387. 
(<Z) The fourth part of an hour. 
quarter 
Sin' y>nr true love was at your yates, 
lt'8 but twa qUftrfr'i-x p;tst. 
The Drowned Loners (Child's Ballads, II. 179). 
He always is here as the clock's going five 
Where is he?. . . Ah, it is chiming the quarter! 
F. Locker, The Old Government t'li-rk. 
(e) In astron., the fourth part of the moon's period or 
monthly revolution : as, the first quarter after the change 
or full. (/) One of the four parts into which the huri/.on 
is supposed to be divided; one of the four cardinal points : 
as, the four quarters of the globe; but, more widely, any 
region or point of the compass : as, from what quarter 
does the wind blow? people thronged in from all quarters; 
hence, indefinitely, any direction or source : as, my infor- 
mation comes from a high quarter. 
Upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four 
quarters of heaven. Jer. xlix. 36. 
I own I wns hurt to hear it, as I indeed was to learn, 
from the same quarter, that your guardian, Sir Peter, and 
Lady Teazle have not agreed lately as well as could be 
wished. Sheridan, School for Scandal, i. 1. 
(;/) In nav., the fourth part of the distance from one 
point on the compass-card to another, being the fourth of 
11 16' that is, about 2 49'. Also called quarter-point. 
(A) The fourth part of the year ; specifically, in schools, 
the fourth part of the teaching period of the year, gener- 
ally ten or eleven weeks. 
I have served your worship truly, sir, this eight years ; 
and if I cannot once or twice in a quarter bear out a 
knave ... I have but a very little credit. 
SAot.,2Hen. IV., v. 1.63. 
There was a fiction that Mr. Wopsle examined the schol- 
ars once a quarter. Dickens, Great Expectations, vii. 
(t) A silver coin, equal to one fourth part of a dollar, or 
twenty-five cents; also, the sum of twenty-five cent*. 
[U. S.] O') One fourth part of the body or carcass of an ani- 
mal, in the case of butcher's meat including a leg : as, a 
fore or hind quarter of mutton ; especially, one of the hind 
quarters ; a haunch : generally in the plural : as, the quar- 
ters of a horse. See cut under horse, (k) 
In her. : (1) One of the four parts into 
which a shield is divided by quartering. 
The four quarters are numbered as fol- 
lows : 1, dexter chief ; 2, sinister chief ; 
3, dexter base ; 4, sinister base. (2) An 
ordinary occupying one fourth of the 
field, and placed (unless otherwise di- 
rected) in the dexter chief, as shown in 
the cut; also, sometimes, same as can- 
tonl , 4. (I) In shoemaking, the part of the 
shoe or boot, on either side, between the 
Quarter. 
back of the heel and a line drawn downward from the 
ankle bone or thereabout ; hence, that part of the leather 
which occupies the same place, whether the actual upper- 
leather of the shoe or a stiff lining. See cut under boot. 
Lace shoe upper, consisting of vamp, quarter, and facing 
for eyelet holes. Ure, Diet., IV. 110. 
(m) Naut. : (1) The part of a ship's side between the after 
part of the main chains and the stern. (2) The part of a 
yard between the slings and the yard-arm, (n) In farriery, 
the part of a horse's foot between the toe and the heel, 
being the side of the coffin. A false quarter is a cleft in 
the hoof extending from the coronet to the shoe, or from 
top to bottom. When for any disorder one of the quar- 
ters is cut, the horse is said to be quarter-cast, (o) In arch., 
a square panel inclosing a quatrefoil or other ornament ; 
also, au upright post in partitions to which the laths are 
nailed. (; In a cask, the part of the side between the 
bulge and the chime, (g) In the dress of a millstone, a 
section of the dress containing one leader and branches. 
(r) In carp., one of the sections of a winding stair. () In 
cork-cutting, a parallelepiped of cork ready to be rounded 
into shape. (() In printing, any one of the four corners 
of a cross-barred chase, (u) In music, same as quarter- 
note. 
2. A distinct division of a surface or region ; a 
particular region of a town, city, or country; 
a district; a locality: as, the Latin quarter of 
Paris; the Jews' quarter in Rome. 
Some part of the town was on fire every night ; nobody 
knew for what reason, nor what was the miarter that was 
next to be burnt Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 624. 
To the right and left of the great thoroughfares are by- 
streets and quarters. E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, 1. 6. 
Hence 3. A position assigned or allotted; 
specific place ; special location ; proper posi- 
tion or station. 
The Lord high-Marshall vnto each his quarter 
Had not assigned. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 1. 
Swift to their several quarters hasted then 
The cumbrous elements. Milton, P. L., iii. 714. 
More specifically (o) The proper stations of officers and 
men on a man-of-war in battle, in exercise, or on inspec- 
tion : in the plural. The exercise of the guns, as in bat- 
tle, is distinguished as general quarters. (6) Place of lodg- 
ing ; temporary residence ; shelter ; entertainment : usu- 
ally in the plural. 
The Duke acquaints his Friends, who hereupon fall 
every one to his Quarter. The Earl of Warwick fell upon 
the Lord Clifford's Quarter, where the Duke of Somerset 
hasting to the Rescue was slain. Baker, Chronicles, p. 193. 
I shall have time enough to lodge you in your quarters, 
and afterwards to perform my own journey. 
Cotton, in Walton's Angler, ii. 223. 
(c) A station or an encampment occupied by troops ; a 
place of lodgment for officers and men : usually in the 
plural: as, they went intowinter quarters. Compare head- 
quarters. 
Had all your quarters been as safely kept 
As that whereof I had the government, 
We had not been thus shamefully surprised. 
Shale., 1 Hen. VI., ii. 1. 63. 
