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A quarry. [Prov. Eng.] B. Jonson.

dow had the privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized. Quarantine flag, a yellow flag hoisted at the fore of a vessel or hung from a building, to give warning of an infectious disease; -- called also the yellow jack, and yellow flag.

A medusa, or jellyfish. [R.] The jellied quarl that flings At once a thousand streaming stings. J. R. Drake.

An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly had a square head. [Obs.] To shoot with arrows and quarrel. Sir J. Mandeville. Two arblasts, . . . with windlaces and quarrels. Sir W. Scott.

A little quarrel. See 1st Quarrel, 2. [Obs.] "Quarrelets of pearl [teeth]." Herrick.

Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood. -- Quar"rel*ing*ly, adv.

Quarrelsome. [Obs.] [Written also quarrellous.] Shak.

Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.

Provided with prey. Now I am bravely quarried. Beau. & Fl.

A worker in a stone quarry.

Same as 1st Quarrel. [Obs.] Fairfax.

Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point; -- said of stones.

A man who is engaged in quarrying stones; a quarrier.

The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth. [Obs.] Camber did possess the western quart. Spenser.

Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.

Butane, each molecule of which has four carbon atoms.

ss so as to allow acids to attack and remove all metals except the gold; -- called also inquartation. Compare Parting.

Same as 2d Carte.

Same as Butylene.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acrylic acid series, metameric with crotonic acid, and obtained as a colorless liquid; -- so called from having four carbon atoms in the molecule. Called also isocrotonic acid.