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A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.

A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into a number of rows of such points; -- used for dressing stone.

upy; as, to busy one's self with books. Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign quarrels. Shak.

of a butcherly murder." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.

A joint in which the edges or ends of the pieces united come squarely together instead of overlapping. See 1st Butt, 8.

A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scrafing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint.

n or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour.

or a cabinet; small. He [Varnhagen von Ense] is a walking cabinet edition of Goethe. For. Quar. Rev.

An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal.

A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, or crystallized quartz, found esp, in the mountain of Cairngorm, in Scotland.

f firearms, tubes, etc.; -- called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses. Caliper square, a draughtsman's or mechanic's square, having a graduated bar and adjustable jaw or jaws. Knight. -- Vernier calipers. See Vernier.

the Metonic cycle, since the 6940 days of the Metonic cycle exceeded 19 years by about a quarter of a day, and exceeded 235 lunations by something more.

To cut off an angle from, as from a square piece of timber, or from the head of a bolt.

To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.

A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters.

A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornlende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.

A kind of confectionery, usually a small cube or square of tenacious paste, or candy, of varying composition and flavor.

the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass. All the quartere that they know I' the shipman's card. Shak.

A quarter of a crown. [Obs.] The bunch of them were not worth a cardecu. Sir W. Scott.

pread with carpets; to furnish with a carpet or carpets. Carpeted temples in fashionable squares. E. Everett.