Word Meanings - QUARTERN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A quarter. Specifically: (a) The fourth part of a pint; a gill. (b) The fourth part of a peck, or of a stone (14 ibs.).

• Stonecray
  A distemper in hawks.
• Stoneware
  A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked.
• Quarteroon
  A quadroon.
• Stonecrop
  A sort of tree.
• Stoneweed
  Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets.
• Quarterpace
  A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only. See Halfpace.
• Quarter round
  An ovolo.
• Stonecutter
  One whose occupation is to cut stone; also, a machine for dressing stone.
• Stonework
  Work or wall consisting of stone; mason's work of stone.
• Quarterstaves
  of Quarterstaff
• Stonecutting
  Hewing or dressing stone.
• Stonewort
  Any plant of the genus Chara; -- so called because they are often incrusted with carbonate of lime. See Chara.
• Quarterstaff
  A long and stout staff formerly used as a weapon of defense and offense; -- so called because in holding it one hand was placed in the middle, and the other between the middle and the end.
• Stone-dead
  As dead as a stone.
• QUARTERDECK
  That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one. Note: The quarter-deck is reserved as a promenade for the officers and (in passenger vessels) for the cabin passengers.
• Specifically
  In a specific manner.
• Stone-deaf
  As deaf as a stone; completely deaf.

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