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vy gale. Living rock or stone, rock in its native or original state or location; rock not quarried. " I now found myself on a rude and narrow stairway, the steps of which were cut of the living rock." Moore. -- The living, those who are alive, or one who is alive.

only used for the article measured; as, a load of wood; a load of hay; specifically, five quarters.

An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.

n. The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter. B. F. Westcott.

er. See Shrike. To be at loggerheads, To fall to loggerheads, or To go to loggerheads, to quarrel; to be at strife. L' Estrange.

A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail. Totten.

A unit of light flux, being the flux through one square meter of surface the illumination of which is uniform and of unit brightness.

A flat-bottomed boat with a pointed prow and square stern, using oars or sails or both, used esp. on the upper Great Lakes and their tributaries.

ral or very extraordinary; having extraordinary properties; as, a magic lantern; a magic square or circle. The painter's magic skill. Cowper.

The platform about the head of the mainmast in square-rigged vessels.

make up a bundle or package. (b) To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference or quarrel. (c) To supply what is wanting in; to complete; as, a dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum. (d) To compose, as from ingredients or parts; to shape, prepare, or fabricate; as, to make up a mass into pills; to make…

One who excites contentions and quarrels. [Obs.]

es of the parasite are distinguished, as P. vivax, producing tertian malaria; P. malariæ, quartan malaria; and P. (subgenus Laverania) falciferum, the malarial fever of summer and autumn common in the tropics.

A regiment in active service. (b) In England, a regiment liable to be ordered into other quarters, at home or abroad; a regiment of the line.

The law that the maximum good signaling distance varies directly as the square of the height of the transmitting antenna.

To dispose in due order, as the different quarterings on an escutcheon, or the different crests when several belong to an achievement.

tation or suggestion of quilting, the surface being marked by depressed lines which form squares or lozenges in relief; as, matelassé silks.

ld coin of Bavaria, of the value of about 13s. 6d. sterling, or about three dollars and a quarter.

king the mean value of the positive and negative errors without regard to sign. -- Mean-square error, or Error of the mean square (Math. Phys.), the error the square of which is the mean of the squares of all the errors; -- called also, especially by European writers, mean error. -- Mean line. (Crystallog.) Same as B…

ngth; the measure of lines or distances. -- Liquid measure, the measure of liquids. -- Square measure, the measure of superficial area of surfaces in square units, as inches, feet, miles, etc. -- To have hard measure, to have harsh treatment meted out to one; to be harshly or oppressively dealt with. -- To take mea…