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The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism. Carlyle.

Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery. Burke.

One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank. [Obs.] Burton.

e slings, through which the clew lines and sheets are reeved. R. H. Dana, Jr. -- Quarter boat (Naut.), a boat hung at a vessel's quarter. -- Quarter cloths (Naut.), long pieces of painted canvas, used to cover the quarter netting. -- Quarter day, a day regarded as terminating a quarter of the year; hence, one on whi…

To saw (a log) into quarters; specif., to saw into quarters and then into boards, as by cutting alternately from each face of a quarter, to secure lumber that will warp relatively little or show the grain advantageously.

g quiescent. "Quiescence, bodily and mental." H. Spencer. Deeds will be done; -- while be boasts his quiescence. R. Browning.

To unite the edges of, as boards, etc., in a rabbet joint.

A collection of logs, boards, pieces of timber, or the like, fastened, together, either for their own collective conveyance on the water, or to serve as a support in conveying other things; a float.

A boat propelled by three rowers with four oars, the middle rower pulling two.

A task of a wild boar. Razor fish. (Zoöl.) (a) A small Mediterranean fish (Coryphæna novacula), prized for the table. (b) The razor shell. -- Razor grass (Bot.), a West Indian plant (Scleria scindens), the triangular stem and the leaves of which are edged with minute sharp teeth. -- Razor grinder (Zoöl.), the Europea…

To rouse; to strip up. [Obs.] And seeks the tusky boar to rear. Dryden.

To bat back (the ball) when served. Receiving ship, one on board of which newly recruited sailors are received, and kept till drafted for service.

Naut.) An instrument used for determining and rectifying the variations of the compass on board ship. (b) (Chem.) A rectificator.

ing bowsprit, a bowsprit so rigged that it can easily be run in or shortened by sliding inboard, as in cutters.

To put, or go, on board a vessel again; to embark again.

A putting, or going, on board a vessel again.

One of a governing board; a trustee or overseer; a superintendent; a curator; as, the regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

the description of a vessel, its name, ownership, and other material facts. It is kept on board the vessel, to be used as an evidence of nationality or as a muniment of title.

liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage. "Who boast'st release from hell." Milton.

Anything on which to rely; dependence; ground of trust; as, the boat was a poor reliance. Richardson.