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homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure.

Feeding on frogs. Quart. Rev.

beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line. Quart. Rev.

ituation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W. (b) pl.

foot. -- To beat up, to attack suddenly; to alarm or disturb; as, to beat up an enemy's quarters.

oms, two have fireplaces, and all are of fair size, with windows and bedsite well placed. Quart. Rev.

Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic.

The first day of May (Old Style). The quarter-days anciently in Scotland were Hallowmas, Candlemas, Beltane, and Lammas. New English Dict.

To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses. Billeted in so antiquated a mansion. W. Irving.

ramids placed base to base; having a pyramid at each of the extremities of a prism, as in quartz crystals.

, comprising 282 houses and covering nine acres of ground, exists in Oxford Street. Lond. Quart. Rev.

from twenty to thirty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long…

ve; as, he had boxed up twelve score pounds. (b) To confine; as, to be boxed up in narrow quarters.

ich a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel.

The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.

A railing on the quarter-deck and forecastle.

inally manufactured at Bristol. -- Bristol stone, rock crystal, or brilliant crystals of quartz, found in the mountain limestone near Bristol, and used in making ornaments, vases, etc. When polished, it is called Bristol diamond.

of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.

The side of a ship above the water line, from the bow to the quarter.

each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) Onr from each quarter, for the main-brace blocks, and called brace bumpkin. (c) A small outrigger over the stern of a boat, to extend the mizzen. [Written also boomkin.]