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a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers;…

A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.

only used for the article measured; as, a load of wood; a load of hay; specifically, five quarters.

An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.

n. The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter. B. F. Westcott.

A regiment in active service. (b) In England, a regiment liable to be ordered into other quarters, at home or abroad; a regiment of the line.

To dispose in due order, as the different quarterings on an escutcheon, or the different crests when several belong to an achievement.

ld coin of Bavaria, of the value of about 13s. 6d. sterling, or about three dollars and a quarter.

whose business was to carry orders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required.

A time note, formerly the shortest in use; a half note, equal to half a semibreve, or two quarter notes or crotchets.

ors. -- Monkey rail (Naut.), a second and lighter rail raised about six inches above the quarter rail of a ship. -- Monkey shine, monkey trick. [Slang, U.S.] -- Monkey trick, a mischievous prank. Saintsbury. -- Monkey wheel. See Gin block, under 5th Gin. -- Monkey wrench, a wrench or spanner having a movable jaw.…

A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard. Nail ball (Ordnance), a round projectile with an iron bolt protruding to prevent it from turning in the gun. -- Nail plate, iron in plates from which cut nails are made. -- On the nail, in hand; on the spot; immediately; without delay or…

ow. Neap tides, the lowest tides of the lunar month, which occur in the second and fourth quarters of the moon; -- opposed to spring tides.

e first time. -- New light. (Zoöl.) See Crappie. -- New moon. (a) The moon in its first quarter, or when it first appears after being invisible. (b) The day when the new moon is first seen; the first day of the lunar month, which was a holy day among the Jews. 2 Kings iv. 23. -- New Red Sandstone (Geol.), an old nam…

tuation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely. Winds from all quarters oppositely blow. May.

at burrows in the coral reefs of certain of the Pacific Islands. A little before the last quarter of the moon in October and November, they swarm in vast numbers at the surface of the sea for breeding, and are gathered and highly esteemed as food by the natives. An allied species inhabits the tropical Atlantic and swar…

sion or ingredient. An homer is the tenth part of an ephah. Ex. xvi. 36. A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom, And ever three parts coward. Shak.

Above; exceeding; more than. [R.] Not past three quarters of a mile. Shak. Bows not past three quarters of a yard long. Spenser.

The motion of a horse when, raising his fore quarters, he keeps his hind feet on the ground without advancing; rearing.

A small copper coin of Germany. It is the hundredth part of a mark, or about a quarter of a cent in United States currency.