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- English Word Quarry Definition Quadrate; square.
- English Word Quarry Definition A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.
- English Word Quarry Definition A heap of game killed.
- English Word Quarry Definition The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks.
- English Word Quarry Definition To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
- English Word Quarry Definition A place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a stone pit. See 5th Mine (a).
- English Word Quarry Definition To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.
- English Word Quarry-faced Definition Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point; -- said of stones.
- English Word Quarry-man Definition A man who is engaged in quarrying stones; a quarrier.
- English Word Quarrying Definition of Quarry
- English Word Quarrymen Definition of Quarry-man
- English Word Quart Definition In cards, four successive cards of the same suit. Cf. Tierce, 4.
- English Word Quart Definition A vessel or measure containing a quart.
- English Word Quart Definition A measure of capacity, both in dry and in liquid measure; the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints.
- English Word Quart Definition The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
- English Word Quartan Definition Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.
- English Word Quartan Definition A measure, the fourth part of some other measure.
- English Word Quartan Definition An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days.
- English Word Quartane Definition Butane, each molecule of which has four carbon atoms.
- English Word Quartation Definition The act, process, or result (in the process of parting) of alloying a button of nearly pure gold with enough silver to reduce the fineness so as to allow acids to attack and remove all metals except the gold; -- called also inquartation. Compare Parting.