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Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto.

Quarterage. [Obs.]

A form of silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2), occurring in hexagonal crystals, which are commonly colorless and transparent, but sometimes also yellow, brown, purple, green, and of other colors; also in cryptocrystalline massive forms varying in color and degree of transparency, being sometimes opaque.…

Consisting chiefly of quartz; containing quartz.

Massive quartz occurring as a rock; a metamorphosed sandstone; -- called also quartz rock.

A form of crystal common with quartz, consisting of two six- sided pyramids, base to base.

Containing, or resembling, quartz; partaking of the nature or qualities of quartz.

Quarzose.

Quartzose.

Pertaining to antiquaries, or to antiquity; as, antiquarian literature.

Character of an antiquary; study or love of antiquities. Warburton.

To act the part of an antiquary. [Colloq.]

Pertaining to antiquity. [R.] "Instructed by the antiquary times." Shak.

A design or painting in thin transparent water colors; also, the mode of painting in such colors.

A painter in thin transparent water colors.

Of or pertaining to an aquarium.

One of a sect of Christian in the primitive church who used water instead of wine in the Lord's Supper.

An artificial pond, or a globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept.

The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East.

A metal covering plate which passes over the trunnions of a cannon, and holds it in place.