Definition of quarte

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Quarte (n.) A position in thrusting or parrying, with the inside of the hand turned upward and the point of the weapon toward the adversary's right breast..

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Part :: Part (n.) Quarter; region; district; -- usually in the plural.
Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) Friendship; amity; concord.
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..
Quartter :: Quartter (v. t.) To furnish with shelter or entertainment; to supply with the means of living for a time; especially, to furnish shelter to; as, to quarter soldiers..
Belgravian :: Belgravian (a.) Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic..
Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) Proper station; specific place; assigned position; special location.
Coigny :: Coigny (n.) The practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody.
Western :: Western (a.) Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of France; the western ocean..
Quarterly :: Quarterly (n.) A periodical work published once a quarter, or four times in a year..
Quartering :: Quartering (n.) A series of quarters, or small upright posts. See Quarter, n., 1 (m) (Arch.).
Inch :: Inch (n.) A measure of length, the twelfth part of a foot, commonly subdivided into halves, quarters, eights, sixteenths, etc., as among mechanics. It was also formerly divided into twelve parts, called lines, and originally into three parts, called barleycorns, its length supposed to have been determined from three grains of barley placed end to end lengthwise. It is also sometimes called a prime ('), composed of twelve seconds (''), as in the duodecimal system of arithmetic..
Broadcloth :: Broadcloth (n.) A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide..
Quartering :: Quartering (n.) Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters.
Circumspectness :: Circumspectness (n.) Vigilance in guarding against evil from every quarter; caution.
Cribbing :: Cribbing (n.) The act of inclosing or confining in a crib or in close quarters.
Last :: Last (n.) A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, 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;
Coach :: Coach (n.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain..
Quartette :: Quartette (n.) A composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument..
Canton :: Canton (v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops..
Quateron :: Quateron (n.) See 2d Quarteron.
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