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behind center rush, and receives the ball on the snap back. -- Quarter badge (Naut.), an ornament on the side of a vessel near, the stern. Mar. Dict. -- Quarter bill (Naut.), a list specifying the different stations to be taken by the officers and crew in time of action, and the names of the men assigned to each. --…

An ornamental foliation having four lobes, or foils.

ense; not exciting disorder or trouble; not turbulent; gentle; mild; meek; contented. The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. 1 Pet. iii. 4. I will sit as quiet as a lamb. Shak.

b has very showy flowers, usually red, but sometimes pink or white, and is much grown for ornament. -- Quince curculio (Zoöl.), a small gray and yellow curculio (Conotrachelus cratægi) whose larva lives in quinces. -- Quince tree (Bot.), the small tree (Cydonia vulgaris) which produces the quince.

A small ornamental leguminous tree of the American species of the genus Cercis. See Judas tree, under Judas.

from one another, or doubled, turned, and interlaced so as to form knots, frets, or other ornaments. See Illust. (12) of Column.

Ornamented with patterns in relief made by pressing or hammering on the reverse side; -- said of thin metal, or of a vessel made of thin metal. -- n.

ticulate leaf; a reticulated surface; a reticulated wing of an insect. Reticulated glass, ornamental ware made from glass in which one set of white or colored lines seems to meet and interlace with another set in a different plane. -- Reticulated micrometer, a micrometer for an optical instrument, consisting of a reti…

oboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append.

A colorless stone of high luster, made of paste. It is much used as an inexpensive ornament.

manganese, a mineral occuring crystallised and in rose-red masses. It is often used as an ornamental stone.

A projecting mold, or group of moldings, forming with others a pattern, as on a ceiling, ornamental door, or the like.

An implement for cutting, trimming, or ornamenting the rim of anything, as the edges of pies, etc.; also, a reamer. Knight.

Specifically, a circular ornament of gold or other precious material worn on the finger, or attached to the ear, the nose, or some other part of the person; as, a wedding ring. Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring. Chaucer. The dearest ring in Venice will I give you. Shak.

nt, so- called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.…

The rococo system of scroll ornament, based in part on the forms of shells and water-worn rocks.

A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century.

A pile of roots, set with plants, mosses, etc., and used as an ornamental object in gardening.

An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, -- used as an ornament or a badge.

e rostra at Rome, or their decorations. [Monuments] adorned with rostral crowns and naval ornaments. Addison.