quartered 
3. Having hind quarters (of a specified kind) : 
as, a short-quartered horse. 4. Sawed into 
quarters (said of a tree-trunk), and then cut 
into planks in such a manner as to show the 
grain of the wood (especially the silver grain 
of oak) to advantage. This is done in various ways 
that most approved being to cut the quarter into two 
equal parts from the pith to the bark, and then to saw off 
boards by cuts parallel to the bisecting section. 
5. In her., having a square piece cut out of the 
center: noting a form of cross. 
The perforation is usually as wide as the 
band that forms the cross, so that the 
arms of the cross do not unite in the mid- 
dle except at their corners. 
6. In shoemaking, made with 
quarters (of a particular kind): 
as, low-quartered shoes Drawn 
and quartered. See drawn. Quar- A cross Quartered, 
tered oak. See def. 4. Quartered 
partition, a partition formed with quarters. Quarterly 
quartered. See quarterly. 
quarterer (kwar'ter-er), . A lodger. Halli- 
terll. [Prov. Eng.] 
quarter-evil (kwar'ter-e'vl), n. Same as symp- 
tomatic anthrax (which see, under anthrax). 
quarter-face (kwar'ter-fas), . A countenance 
three parts averted. 
But let this dross carry what price It will 
With noble ignorants, and let them still 
Turn upon scorned verse their quarter-face. 
B. Jonson, Forest, xii. To Countess of Rutland. 
quarter-fast (kwar'ter-fast), n. Naut. See 
fasti, i, 
quarter-fishes (kwar'ter-fish^ez), n. pi. Stout 
pieces of wood hooped on to a mast to strength- 
en it. 
quarterfoil (kwar'ter-foil), n. See quatrefoil. 
quarter-franc (kwar'ter-frangk), . In her., 
a quarter used separately as a bearing. 
quarter-gallery (kwar'ter-gal'e-ri), n. Naut., 
a projecting balcony on each of the quarters, 
and sometimes on the stern, of a large ship; 
also, a small structure on the quarters of a ship, 
containing the water-closet and bath-tub. 
quarter-grain (kwar'ter-gran), n. The grain 
of wood shown when a log is quartered. See 
quartered, 4. Compare felt-grain. 
quarter-guard (kwar'ter-gard), n. Milit., a 
small guard posted in front of each battalion 
in camp. 
quarter-gunner (kwar'ter-gun'er), . In the 
Tjnited States navy, a petty officer whose duty 
it is, under the direction of the gunner, to care 
for the guns, gun-gear, small-arms, and ammu- 
nition. 
quarter-hollow (kwar'ter-hol"6), n. and a. I. 
B. In arch., etc., a concave molding the arc of 
which is, or approaches, 90, or a quadrant : the 
converse of a quarter-round. 
II. a. Having the form of a quarter-hollow. 
Quarter- hollow tool, a chisel or gouge used in wood- 
working to make convex or concave moldings. 
quarter-horse (kwar'ter-h6rs), n. A horse that 
is good for a dash of a quarter of a mile in a 
race. [Southern U. S.] 
quarter-hung (kwar'ter-hung), a. Having, as 
a gun, trunnions with their axis below the line 
of bore. Farrow, Mil. Encyc. 
quarteridget, n. An obsolete form of quarter- 
aye. 
quarter-ill (kwar'ter-il), M. Same as symptom- 
atic anthrax (which see, under anthrax). 
quartering (kwar'ter-ing), n. [Verbal n. of 
quarter 1 , v.] 1. The act of dividing into 
fourths. 2. The act of assigning quarters, as 
for soldiers. 3. Quarters; lodging; a station. 
Divers designations, regions, habitations, mansions, or 
quarterinys there. Ep. Mountagu, Appeal to Caesar, xviU. 
4. In her., the marshaling or disposal of va- 
rious escutcheons in 
one, in order to denote 
the several alliances 
of one family with the 
heiresses of others. 
When more than three 
other escutcheons are quar- 
tered with that of the fam- 
ily, the arms are still said to 
be quartered, however many 
compartments the shield 
may be divided into. The 
name is also given to the 
several different coats mar* 
shaled and placed together 
in one escutcheon. See 
quarterly. 
5. In carp., a series of small vertical timber 
posts, rarely exceeding 4 by 3 inches, used to 
form a partition for the separation or boundary 
of apartments. They are usually placed about twelve 
inches apart, and are lathed and plastered in interiors, but 
if used for exteriors they are generally boarded. GwUt. 
4898 
6. In gun., the position or placing of a piece of 
ordnance when it is so traversed that it will 
shoot on the same line, or on the same point of 
the compass, as that on which the ship's quarter 
has its bearing. 7. In mech., the adjustment 
of cranks on a single shaft at an angle of 90 
with each other; also, the boring of holes for 
wrist-pins in locomotive driving-wheels at right 
angles with each other. E. H. Knight. 
quartering (kwar'ter-ing), n. a. [Ppr. of 
quarter 1 , .] 1. Naut.: (a) Sailing large but 
not before the wind. Totten. (b) Being on the 
quarter, or between the line of the keel and the 
beam, abaft the latter: as, a quartering wind. 
Dana. 2. In archery, making an acute angle 
with the range : said of the wind. 
quartering-helt (kwar'ter-ing-belt), n. Same 
as quarter-turn belt (which see, under belt). 
quartering-block (kwar'ter-ing-blok), M. A 
block on which the body of a person condemned 
to be quartered was cut in pieces. Macaulay. 
quartering-hammer (kwarter-ing-ham' l 'er), n. 
A steel hammer used to block out masses of 
flint for flaking. 
quartering-machine (kwar'ter-ing-ma-shen*), 
n. A machine for boring the wrist-pin holes 
of driving-wheels accurately at a distance apart 
of 90. 
quarter-iron (kwar'ter-i'ern), n. Naut., 
Doom-iron on the quarter of a lower yard. 
quarterland (kwar'ter-land), . A small ter- 
ritorial division or estate in the Isle of Man, 
forming a division of a treen. 
quarter-partition 
racks, tents, etc., of a regiment, and to keep 
the regimental stores on the march : he directs 
the marking out of camp. In the I'nited States 
army the quartermaster is appointed by the colonel of 
the regiment, subject to the approval of the Secretary of 
War. In the British service the quartermaster is gener- 
ally taken from the ranks, :ind after thirty years' service, 
including ten as an officer, he may retire with the honor- 
ary rank of captain. Farrow, Mil. Encyc. 
2. Sattt., a petty officer who has charge of the 
steering of the ship, the signals and sound- 
ings, and the running lights, leads, colors, 
log, compasses, etc., as an assistant to the 
navigator. Quartermasters keep regular watch during 
the whole time a ship is in commission, and are selected 
and running-lights in order. Quartermaster's depart- 
ment, the staff department of the United States army 
which provides the quarters and transportation of the ar- 
my, purchases stores, transports army supplies, and fur- 
nishes clothing, camp and garrison equipage, horses for the 
artillery and cavalry, straw, fuel, forage, and stationery. It 
disburses the appropriations for the incidental expenses of 
the army, such as the pursuit and capture of deserters, the 
burial of officers and soldiers, the extra-duty pay of sol- 
diers, the purchase of veterinary medicines and stores, the 
hiring of escorts, couriers, guides, spies, and interpreters ; 
and it has charge of the support and maintenance of the 
national cemeteries. Signal or chief quartermaster, 
in the United States navy, a petty officer who has charge of 
all the apparatus of navigation, as well as the flags, sig- 
" light; 
nals, and lights. 
a quartermaster-general (kwar'ter-mas'ter- 
jen'e-ral), n. Milit., in the British service, a 
staff-officer whose department is charged with 
all orders relating to the marching, embarking, 
disembarking, billeting, quartering, and can- 
quarter-light (kwar'ter-lit), n. In a carriage, toning of troops, and to encampments and camp 
a window in the side of the body, as distin- equipage ; in the United States army, a staff- 
guished from the windows in the doors. Car- officer of the rank of brigadier-general, who is 
Builder's Diet. at the head of the quartern) aster's department, 
quarter-line (kwar'ter-lin), . 1. The position quartermaster-sergeant (kwar'ter-mas'ter- 
pf ships of a column ranged in a line when one sar'jent), n. Milit., a non-commissioned of- 
is four points forward or abaft another's beam, fleer whose duty it is to assist the quartermas- 
Also called bow-and-quarter line. 2. An addi- ter. 
tional line extending to the under side of the quartern (kwar'tern), n. [< ME. quarteroun, < 
bag of a seine. As the bag approaches the shore, this OF. quarteron, F. quarteron = Pr. cartayron, 
line is from time to time drawn upon to relieve the strain cartairo = Sp. cuarteron = It. quarterone, a 
upon the wings. 
quarter-lookt (kwar'ter-luk), M. A side look. 
B. Jonson. 
quarterly (kwar'ter-li), a. and n. [< quarter* 
~^~ "fy 1 -] 1. a. 1. Containing or consisting of 
a fourth part. 
The moon makes four quarterly seasons within her little 
year or month of consecution. Holder, On Time. 
2. Recurring at the end of every quarter of the 
year : as, quarterly payments of rent ; a quarter- ' a pint ; an Imperial gill. 
fourth part, < ML. quartero(n-), a fourth part, 
< L. quartus, fourth: see quart 1 , quarter^. Cf. 
quarteroon, quadroon.'] 1. A fourth part; a 
quarter. 
And there is not the mone seyn in alle the lunacioun, 
sal only the seconde quarteroun. 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 301. (BaUiwell.) 
Specifically 2. The fourth part of certain 
British measures, (a) In liquid measure, the fourth 
ly visitation or examination Quarterly confer- 
ence. See conference, 2 ()(2). 
II. . ; pi. quarterlies (-liz). A publication 
or literary periodical issued once every three 
months. 
The waiter . . . returned with a quartern of brandy. 
Smollett, Launcelot Greaves, xvii. 
(6) The fourth of a peck, or of a stone, (c) A quarter of a 
pound. 
Applicants for quarterns of sugar. 
Dickens, Sketches, Tales, iv. 
So much of our reviewing is done in newspapers and 
critical notes in magazines and quarterlies that this sort of nliar t lPr npttino- fkwar'rM- Tipt'iTitr'i Wnuf 
criticism nearly engrosses the name. quairer-netting (.Kwai r-net ing), n. Xaut., 
Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 64. netting on the quarter for the stowage of ham- 
mocks, which formerly in action served to arrest 
bullets from small-arms. 
quarternion (kwar-ter'ni-on), w. An erroneous 
form of quaternion. 
quarterly (kwar'ter-li), adv. 
1. In quarters; by quarters. 
[< quarterly, a.] 
They tore in peces quarterly 
The corps which they had slalne. 
i, Philomene (Steele Glas, etc., ed. Arber, p. 107). 
2. Once in a quarter of a year: as, the returns 
are made quarterly. 3. In her. : (a) Arranged 
according to the four 
quarters of the shield. 
(6) Arranged according 
to quartering, even when 
more than four divisions 
exist: as, he bears quar- 
terly of twelve. Com- 
pare quartering, 4 Quar- 
terly in equerre. in her., di- 
vided into four parts by broken 
lines, producing an effect simi- 
lar to gironny. Quarterly in 
saltier, in her., same as per 
saltier: said of the field. See 
saltier. Quarterly pierced, in her., quartered. Quar- 
terly quartered, in her., divided along the lines which 
Quarterly in Equerre. 
separate the field quarterly : said of any bearing in the 
field. 
,r'tern-16f), n. A loaf weigh- 
four pounds. 
Who makes the quarternjoaf and Luddites rise? 
U. Smith, Rejected Addresses, i. 
In proof of their poverty they [the sweepers] refer you 
to the workhouse authorities, who allow them certain 
quartern-loaves weekly. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 528. 
quarter-noble (kwar'ter-no'bl), n. An old 
English coin, equal in value to the fourth part 
of a noble. Also ferling-noble. See noble, 2. 
quarter-note (kwar'ter-not), n. In musical no- 
tation, a note equivalent in time-value to one 
half of a half-note ; a crotchet : marked by the 
sign * or P. Also quarter. Quarter-note rest. 
Same as quarter-rest. 
quarteroon (kwar-te-ron'), n. [< Sp. cuarteron: 
see quartern and quadroon.] Same as quad- 
roon. 
Quartering. 
First and fourth quarters are of 
one ancestor. A; second of an- 
other, B ; third of another, C. 
Your pale-white Creoles have their grievances: and your 
yellow Quarteroons? . . . Quarteroon Og6 . . . feltforhis 
share too that insurrection was the most sacred of duties. 
Carlyle, French Rev., II. v. 4. (Daviei.) 
A Middle English form of 
quarterman (kwar'ter-man), n.; pi. quarter- 
men (-men). An officer of a subdivision of a 
navy-yard working force. [U. 8.] 
quartermaster (kwar'ter-mas'ter), n. [= D. quarterount, 
CtrartfarMMtfer = G. quartiermeister = Sw. quartern. 
qi'artermastare = Dan.kt!arteermester; as quar- quarter-pace (kwav'ter-pas), . The footpace 
ter 2 + master 1 .] 1. Milit., a regimental staff- of a staircase when it occurs at the angle-turns 
officer, of the relative rank of lieutenant, whose of the stairs. 
duties are to superintend the assignment of quarter-partition (kwar'ter-par-tish"on),w. In 
quarters and the distribution of clothing, fuel, carp., a partition consisting of quarters. See 
and other supplies, to have charge of the bar- quartering, 5. 
