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Three-quarter :: Three-quarter (a.) Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures.

Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To make a succession of strokes on a drum; as, the drummers beat to call soldiers to their quarters..

Quartering :: Quartering (a.) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object..

Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) Place of lodging or temporary residence; shelter; entertainment; -- usually in the plural.

Part :: Part (n.) Quarter; region; district; -- usually in the plural.

Casemate :: Casemate (n.) A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used as a magazine, or for quartering troops..

Point :: Point (n.) A dot placed at the right hand of a note, to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half, as to make a whole note equal to three half notes, a half note equal to three quarter notes..

Marshal :: Marshal (v. t.) To dispose in due order, as the different quarterings on an escutcheon, or the different crests when several belong to an achievement..

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys..

Right-about :: Right-about (n.) A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about..

Quadrant :: Quadrant (n.) The fourth part; the quarter.

Pistole :: Pistole (n.) The name of certain gold coins of various values formerly coined in some countries of Europe. In Spain it was equivalent to a quarter doubloon, or about $3.90, and in Germany and Italy nearly the same. There was an old Italian pistole worth about $5.40..

Coach :: Coach (n.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain..

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp..

Quateron :: Quateron (n.) See 2d Quarteron.

Springal :: Spring (v. i.) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.

Corner :: Corner (n.) An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part..

Quartet :: Quartet (n.) Alt. of Quartett.

Quarterly :: Quarterly (a.) Containing, or consisting of, a fourth part; as, quarterly seasons..

Quarterhung :: Quarterhung (a.) Having trunnions the axes of which lie below the bore; -- said of a cannon.

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