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A privy; a water-closet.

The son of a brother or a sister, or of a brother-in-law or sister-in-law. Chaucer.

A daughter of one's brother or sister, or of one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law.

A white crystalline substance, obtained from an exudation from the olive, and having a bitter-sweet taste and acid proporties. [Written also olivile.] Gregory.

upon it of rays of light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids are closed. Cf. After- image.

A colorless viscous substance having a bitter-sweet taste.

The bitter-flavored nut of a species of hickory (Carya glabra, or porcina); also, the tree itself.

oard does a swimmer. His charity is a better plank than the faith of an intolerant and bitter-minded bigot. Southey.

Happening, or done, after dinner; after-dinner; as, postprandial speeches.

ied by some natural source, and apply them to drive other machines; as a water wheel, a water- pressure engine, a steam engine, a hot-air engine, etc. (c) Fig.: The original or the most effective force in any undertaking or work; as, Clarkson was the prime mover in English antislavery agitation. -- Prime number (Arith…

The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person quarter-blooded. [Written also quarteron, quarteroon, and quateron.]

th of semibreve; a crochet. -- Quarter pieces (Naut.), several pieces of timber at the after- part of the quarter gallery, near the taffrail. Totten. -- Quarter point. (Naut.) See Quarter, n., 1 (n). -- Quarter railing, or Quarter rails (Naut.), narrow molded planks reaching from the top of the stern to the gangway,…

Quarter-sawed; -- said of timber, commonly oak.

A speed regulator, as a water-wheel governor, embodying the relay principle. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

The shaft of a feather. The rhachis of the after-shaft, or plumule, is called the hyporhachis.

Having the percussion fulminate in a rim surrounding the base, distinguished from center-fire; -- said of cartridges; also, using rim-fire cartridges; as, a rim-fire gun. Such cartridges are now little used.

The rococo system of scroll ornament, based in part on the forms of shells and water-worn rocks.

A cabin or apartament on the after part of the quarter-deck, having the poop for its roof; -- sometimes called the coach.

Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls. Inside [the wall] there was rubble or mortar. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

of the ripe berries of the Rhamnus catharticus, or buckthorn. It is used especially by water-color artists. -- Sap rot, the dry rot. See under Dry. -- Sap sucker (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus, especially the yellow-bellied woodpecker (S. varius) of the Eas…