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Lamb''s-quarters :: Lamb's-quarters (n.) A name given to several plants of the Goosefoot family, sometimes used as pot herbs, as Chenopodium album and Atriplex patulsa..

Quart :: Quart (n.) The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth..

Dingdong :: Dingdong (n.) An attachment to a clock by which the quarter hours are struck upon bells of different tones.

Breastrail :: Breastrail (n.) The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc..

Quarter :: Quarter (v. i.) To lodge; to have a temporary residence.

Rack :: Rack (n.) The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton.

Quarteroon :: Quarteroon (n.) A quadroon.

Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) Friendship; amity; concord.

Quadrate :: Quadrate (a.) An aspect of the heavenly bodies in which they are distant from each other 90�, or the quarter of a circle; quartile. See the Note under Aspect, 6..

Quarterly :: Quarterly (a.) Recurring during, or at the end of, each quarter; as, quarterly payments of rent; a quarterly meeting..

Quadrature :: Quadrature (a.) The position of one heavenly body in respect to another when distant from it 90�, or a quarter of a circle, as the moon when at an equal distance from the points of conjunction and opposition..

Etat Major :: Etat Major () The staff of an army, including all officers above the rank of colonel, also, all adjutants, inspectors, quartermasters, commissaries, engineers, ordnance officers, paymasters, physicians, signal officers, judge advocates; also, the noncommissioned assistants of the above officers..

Half-moon :: Half-moon (n.) The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated..

Circumspectness :: Circumspectness (n.) Vigilance in guarding against evil from every quarter; caution.

Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) Treatment shown by an enemy; mercy; especially, the act of sparing the life a conquered enemy; a refraining from pushing one's advantage to extremes..

Corner :: Corner (n.) Direction; quarter.

Gallery :: Gallery (a.) A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom found in vessels built since 1850..

Chetvert :: Chetvert (n.) A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels..

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin..

Quarterfoil :: Quarterfoil (n.) An ornamental foliation having four lobes, or foils..

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