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Divided into four equal parts or quarters; separated into four parts or regions.

Overlaid with quicksilver, or with an amalgam of quicksilver and tinfoil.

Cut less than halfway into portions, usually somewhat rounded; five-lobed; as, a quinquelobate leaf or corolla.

Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver. "Like a quivered nymph with arrows keen." Milton.

Wearing a rapier. "Scarletcoated, rapiered figures." Lowell.

To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit. [R.] Todhunter.

A going back; a retrogression; a return. [R.] Herrick.

A backward stroke. [Obs.]

were lighted, immediately under the louver, in the center of ancient halls. [Also spelt reredosse.] Fairholt.

Private; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits. A retired part of the peninsula. Hawthorne.

Filthy; obscene; ribald. [Obs.]

Supplied with rivers; as, a well rivered country.

Shaped like a rocker; curved; as, a rockered keel.

Uncommonly beautiful; hence, extravagantly fine or pleasing; alluring; as, rose-colored anticipations.

Red as a rose; specifically (Zoöl.), of a pure purplish red color. Chaucer.

Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.

Having a rupture, or hernia.

ense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a sacred place; a sacred day; sacred service.

Roughness; ruggedness. [Obs.] Burton.

Irregular in position; having no regular order; as, scattered leaves. -- Scat"tered*ly, adv. -- Scat"tered*ness, n.