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ase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks. "The stone-dead quarry." Spenser. The wily quarry shunned the shock. Sir W. Scott.

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.

nry made of squared or hewn stone. Rough ashlar, a block of freestone as brought from the quarry. When hammer-dressed it is known as common ashlar. Knight.

le page of a book. Bastard ashlar (Arch.), stones for ashlar work, roughly squared at the quarry. -- Bastard file, a file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut. -- Bastard type (Print.), type having the face of a larger or a smaller size than the body; e.g., a nonpareil face on a brevier body. -- Bast…

Rent open by an explosive. The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote. Wordsworth.

e, And Christmas blocks are burning. Wither. All her labor was but as a block Left in the quarry. Tennyson.

ght nail. -- Cut stone, stone hewn or chiseled to shape after having been split from the quarry.

A mine; a quarry; a pit dug; a ditch. [Written also delft, and delve.] [Obs.] The delfts would be so flown with waters, that no gins or machines could . . . keep them dry. Ray.

in demand, or to special sizes as ordered. -- Dimension stone, stone delivered from the quarry rough, but brought to such sizes as are requisite for cutting to dimensions given.

Prepared; ready. [Obs.] So fit to shoot, she singled forth among her foes who first her quarry's strength should feel. Fairfax.

e streets. Bacon. The good nuns would check her gadding tongue. Tennyson. Gadding car, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.

A shaft in a coal pit; a hollow in a quarry. [Scot.]

ible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.

A long drilling tool used by masons and quarrymen.

A quarry; an open cut. Raymond.

The waste which overlies good stone in a quarry. Raymond.

The body of any quarry killed by the hawk. Pelt rot, a disease affecting the hair or wool of a beast.

nted at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.

s cut away, so as to give nearly true edges; -- said of squared stones that are otherwise quarry-faced.