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One who works with the burin. For. Quart. Rev.

A dry measure, containing four pecks, eight gallons, or thirty-two quarts.

n or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour.

An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal.

A yellow or smoky brown variety of rock crystal, or crystallized quartz, found esp, in the mountain of Cairngorm, in Scotland.

the Metonic cycle, since the 6940 days of the Metonic cycle exceeded 19 years by about a quarter of a day, and exceeded 235 lunations by something more.

To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.

A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters.

A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornlende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.

the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass. All the quartere that they know I' the shipman's card. Shak.

A quarter of a crown. [Obs.] The bunch of them were not worth a cardecu. Sir W. Scott.

laced, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops.

A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.

A variety of quartz or chalcedony, exhibiting opalescent reflections from within, like the eye of a cat. The mane is given to other gems affording like effects, esp. the chrysoberyl.

A cryptocrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, having usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax. [Written also calcedony.]

An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.

A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels. [Russia]

A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep. [Prov. Eng.] "The cottage in a chine." J. Ingelow.

uid measure formerly used in France and Great Britain, varying from half a pint to a wine quart.

Vigilance un guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. [Travel] forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.