quarter : Idioms & Phrases

• malignant anthrax with engorgement of a shoulder or quarter, etc., as of an ox.

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• noun an enlisted man who handles his unit's administrative matters after hours
  

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• noun a situation of being uncomfortably close to someone or something
  

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• noun hand-to-hand fighting at close quarters
  

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• verb pull (a person) apart with four horses tied to his extremities, so as to execute him
  draw; quarter.
  
  • in the old days, people were drawn and quartered for certain crimes

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• adverb in three month intervals
  quarterly.
  
  • interest is compounded quarterly

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• a cleft in the quarter of a horse's foot.

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• the hide and fat; a butcher's term.

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• noun the first fourth of the Moon's period of revolution around the Earth
  

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• noun leaves collected from the wild
  pigweed; wild spinach; lamb's-quarter.
  

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• noun common weedy European plant introduced into North America; often used as a potherb
  pigweed; wild spinach; Chenopodium album.
  
• noun leaves collected from the wild
  pigweed; wild spinach; lamb's-quarter.
  

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Lamb's-quar"ters noun

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1. (Bot.) A name given to several plants of the Goosefoot family, sometimes used as pot herbs, as Chenopodium album and Atriplex patulsa.

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• noun the last fourth of the Moon's period of revolution around the Earth
  

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• noun the region of Paris on the southern bank of the Seine; a center of artistic and student life
  Left Bank.
  

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• noun housing available for people to live in
  quarters.
  
  • he found quarters for his family
  • I visited his bachelor quarters

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• noun living quarters for personnel on a military post
  

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• (Naut.), in a direction between abeam and astern; opposite, or nearly opposite, a vessel's quarter.

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• noun one of four equal parts
  twenty-five percent; fourth part; quartern; one-fourth; fourth; quarter.
  
  • a quarter of a pound

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• . (Astrol.) Same as Quadrate.

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• (Football), the player who has position next behind center rush, and receives the ball on the snap back.

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• (Naut.), an ornament on the side of a vessel near, the stern. Mar. Dict.

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• (Naut.), a list specifying the different stations to be taken by the officers and crew in time of action, and the names of the men assigned to each.

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• (Naut.), a block fitted under the quarters of a yard on each side of the slings, through which the clew lines and sheets are reeved. R. H. Dana, Jr.

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• (Naut.), a boat hung at a vessel's quarter.

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• (Naut.), long pieces of painted canvas, used to cover the quarter netting.

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• noun a crack on the inside of a horse's forefoot
  

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• noun a Christian holy day; one of four specified days when certain payments are due
  

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• a day regarded as terminating a quarter of the year; hence, one on which any payment, especially rent, becomes due. In matters influenced by United States statutes, quarter days are the first days of January, April, July, and October. In New York and many other places, as between landlord and tenant, they are the first days of May, August, November, and February. The quarter days usually recognized in England are 25th of March (Lady Day), the 24th of June (Midsummer Day), the 29th of September (Michaelmas Day), and the 25th of December (Christmas Day).

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• in fine arts, portrait painting, etc., a face turned away so that but one quarter is visible.

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• (Naut.), a balcony on the quarter of a ship. See Gallery, 4.

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• (Naut.), a petty officer who assists the gunner.

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• noun a small powerful horse originally bred for sprinting in quarter-mile races in Virginia
  

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• a side glance. Obs. B. Jonson.

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• noun a unit of length equal to a quarter of 1 mile
  440 yards.
  

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• (Naut.), hammock nettings along the quarter rails.

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• noun a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note
  crotchet.
  

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• (Mus.), a note equal in duration to half a minim or a fourth of semibreve; a crochet.

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• (Naut.), several pieces of timber at the after-part of the quarter gallery, near the taffrail. Totten.

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• noun a photographic plate measuring 3.25 inches by 4.25 inches
  

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• . (Naut.) See Quarter, n., 1 (n).

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• noun 4 ounces avoirdupois
  

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• (Naut.), narrow molded planks reaching from the top of the stern to the gangway, serving as a fence to the quarter-deck.

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• noun a musical rest having one-fourth the time value of a whole rest
  

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• noun a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse
  ovolo; thumb.
  

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Quar"ter round`

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1. (Arch.) An ovolo.

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• noun a land unit equal to a quarter of a section (160 acres) and measuring 1/2 mile on a side
  

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• noun a local court with criminal jurisdiction and sometimes administrative functions
  

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• (Eng. Law), a general court of criminal jurisdiction held quarterly by the justices of peace in counties and by the recorders in boroughs.

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• (Math.), the fourth part of the square of a number. Tables of quarter squares have been devised to save labor in multiplying numbers.

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• noun stock with a par value of $25/share
  

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• noun half of a semitone
  quarter tone.
  

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• (Mach.), an arrangement in which a belt transmits motion between two shafts which are at right angles with each other.

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• (Naut.), a subdivision of the full watch (one fourth of the crew) on a man-of- war.

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• noun a period of 25 years
  

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• noun a quarter of the circumference of a circle
  quadrant.
  

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Quar"ter-deck` noun

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1. (Naut.) That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one. ✍ The quarter-deck is reserved as a promenade for the officers and (in passenger vessels) for the cabin passengers.

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• noun a quarter of an hour
  15 minutes.
  

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• noun half of a semitone
  quarter tone.
  

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• noun woody flowering vine of southern United States; stems show a cross in transverse section
  Bignonia capreolata; quartervine; cross vine; trumpet flower.
  

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Three"-quar`ter adjective

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1. (Paint.) Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures.

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• noun the spine and much of the sides are a different material from the rest of the cover
  

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• a portrait showing the figure to the hips only.

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• noun three of four equal parts
  three-fourths.
  
  • three-fourths of a pound

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• (Mil.), to accept as prisoner, on submission in battle; to forbear to kill, as a vanquished enemy.

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• . See Quarter, n., 3.

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• the quarters of troops during the winter; a winter residence or station.

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