portrait painting, etc., a face turned away so that but one quarter is visible. — Quarter gallery (Naut.),
a balcony on the quarter of a ship. See Gallery, 4. — Quarter gunner (Naut.), a petty officer who
assists the gunner. — Quarter look, a side glance. [Obs.] B. Jonson. — Quarter nettings (Naut.),
hammock nettings along the quarter rails. — Quarter note (Mus.), a note equal in duration to half a
minim or a fourth of semibreve; a crochet. — Quarter pieces (Naut.), several pieces of timber at the
after-part of the quarter gallery, near the taffrail. Totten. — Quarter point. (Naut.) See Quarter, n.,
1 (n). — Quarter railing, or Quarter rails (Naut.), narrow molded planks reaching from the top of
the stern to the gangway, serving as a fence to the quarter-deck. — Quarter sessions (Eng. Law),
a general court of criminal jurisdiction held quarterly by the justices of peace in counties and by the
recorders in boroughs. — Quarter square (Math.), the fourth part of the square of a number. Tables
of quarter squares have been devised to save labor in multiplying numbers. — Quarter turn, Quarter
turn belt (Mach.), an arrangement in which a belt transmits motion between two shafts which are at
right angles with each other. — Quarter watch (Naut.), a subdivision of the full watch (one fourth of
the crew) on a man-of- war. — To give, or show, quarter (Mil.), to accept as prisoner, on submission
in battle; to forbear to kill, as a vanquished enemy. — To keep quarter. See Quarter, n., 3.
Quarter
(Quar"ter) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quartered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Quartering.]
1. To divide into four equal parts.
2. To divide; to separate into parts or regions.
Then sailors quartered heaven.
Dryden. 3. 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.
They mean this night in Sardis to be quartered.
Shak. 4. To furnish as a portion; to allot. [R.]
This isle . . .
He quarters to his blue-haired deities.
Milton. 5. (Her.) To arrange (different coats of arms) upon one escutcheon, as when a man inherits from both
father and mother the right to bear arms.
When only two coats of arms are so combined they are arranged in four compartments. See Quarter,
n., 1 (f).
Quarter
(Quar"ter) v. i. To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
Quarter
(Quar"ter), v. i. [F. cartayer.] To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into
the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels.
Every creature that met us would rely on us for quartering.
De Quincey. Quarterage
(Quar"ter*age) n. A quarterly allowance.
Quarter-deck
(Quar"ter-deck`) n. (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.
Quarterfoil
(Quar"ter*foil`) n. [Quarier + foil: cf. F. quatre.] (Arch.) An ornamental foliation having four
lobes, or foils.
