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QUARTER |
One fourth |
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GILL |
A measure of capacity, containing one fourth of a pint. |
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BARRULET |
A diminutive of the bar, having one fourth its width. |
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LIARD |
A French copper coin of one fourth the value of a sou. |
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SEMUNCIA |
A Roman coin equivalent to one twenty-fourth part of a
Roman pound. |
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TETARTOHEDRAL |
Having one fourth the number of planes which are
requisite to complete symmetry. |
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ENDORSE |
A subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its
width (according to some writers, one eighth). |
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HEMI-DEMI-SEMIQUAVER |
A short note, equal to one fourth of a
semiquaver, or the sixty-fourth part of a whole note. |
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FILLET |
An ordinary equaling in breadth one fourth of the chief, to
the lowest portion of which it corresponds in position. |
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TRIDENT |
A curve of third order, having three infinite branches in
one direction and a fourth infinite branch in the opposite direction. |
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ROYAL |
One of the upper or distal branches of an antler, as the
third and fourth tynes of the antlers of a stag. |
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QUARTAN |
An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day,
reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between
paroxysms is two days. |
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CYCLIDE |
A surface of the fourth degree, having certain special
relations to spherical surfaces. The tore or anchor ring is one of the
cyclides. |
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SABBATARIAN |
One who regards and keeps the seventh day of the week
as holy, agreeably to the letter of the fourth commandment in the
Decalogue. |
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CROTCHET |
A time note, with a stem, having one fourth the value of
a semibreve, one half that of a minim, and twice that of a quaver; a
quarter note. |
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BOULTIN |
A molding, the convexity of which is one fourth of a
circle, being a member just below the abacus in the Tuscan and Roman
Doric capital; a torus; an ovolo. |
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DEGREE |
A certain distance or remove in the line of descent,
determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of
relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. |
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TETRADITE |
A person in some way remarkable with regard to the
number four, as one born on the fourth day of the month, or one who
reverenced four persons in the Godhead. |
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BATON |
An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark
of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister;
-- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister. |
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LUCIFERIAN |
One of the followers of Lucifer, bishop of Cagliari, in
the fourth century, who separated from the orthodox churches because
they would not go as far as he did in opposing the Arians. |
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HETEROPELMOUS |
Having each of the two flexor tendons of the toes
bifid, the branches of one going to the first and second toes; those of
the other, to the third and fourth toes. See Illust. in Append. |
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SENIOR |
... course at
an American college; -- originally called senior sophister; also, one
in the last year of the course at a professional schools or at ... |
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MACEDONIAN |
One of a certain religious sect, followers of
Macedonius, Bishop of Constantinople, in the fourth century, who held
that the Holy Ghost was a c... |
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COUPLE-CLOSE |
A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of
its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a
chevron, and the bla... |
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QUADRANT |
One of the four parts into which a plane is divided by
the coordinate axes. The upper right-hand part is the first quadrant;
the upper left-han... |