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ispute, contest, or strife; a brawl; an altercation; as, he had a quarrel with his father about expenses. I will bring a sword upon you that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant. Lev. xxvi. 25. On open seas their quarrels they debate. Dryden.

A loaf of bread weighing about four pounds; -- called also quartern loaf. Simmonds.

To be shaken, or dashed about, with noise.

The nut of an Australian tree (Macadamia ternifolia). It is about an inch in diameter, and contains a single round edible seed, or sometimes two hemispherical seeds. So called from Queensland in Australia.

A question in the mind; a doubt; as, I have a query about his sincerity.

Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively. The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out. Shak.

ed without question. There arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying. John iii. 25. It is to be to question, whether it be lawful for Christian princes to make an invasive war simply for the propagation of the faith. Bacon.

One who makes it his business to seek after relics and carry them about for sale.

The first motion of the fetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of the term of pregnancy. It has been popularly supposed to be due to the fetus becoming possessed of independent life.

One who wastes his energy about trifles. Emerson.

h in which the threads after being passed deeply through the edges of a wound are secured about two quills or bodies of similar shape, in order to produce a suitable degree of pressure.

ising from a corm, and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves.

Sharply cut about halfway to the middle or base into five segments; as, a quinquefid leaf or corolla.

A marsupial of Australia (Dasyurus macrurus), about the size of a cat.

A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.

A straight line proceeding from a given point, or fixed pole, about which it is conceived to revolve.

extant or other angular instrument. Knight. Radius bar (Math.), a bar pivoted at one end, about which it swings, and having its other end attached to a piece which it causes to move in a circular arc. -- Radius of curvature. See under Curvature.

To walk about; to gad or ramble idly. [Prov. Eng.]

Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.

nate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world. He that is at liberty to ramble in perfect darkness, what is his liberty better than if driven up and down as a bubble by the wind Locke.