Quarrel () A breach of concord, amity, or obligation; a falling out; a difference; a disagreement; an antagonism in opinion, feeling, or conduct; esp., an angry dispute, contest, or strife; a brawl; an altercation; as, he had a quarrel with his father about expenses.

Quarrel () Ground of objection, dislike, difference, or hostility; cause of dispute or contest; occasion of altercation.

Quarrel () Earnest desire or longing.

Quarreled () of Quarrel

Quarrelled () of Quarrel

Quarreling () of Quarrel

Quarrelling () of Quarrel

Quarrel () To violate concord or agreement; to have a difference; to fall out; to be or become antagonistic.

Quarrel () To dispute angrily, or violently; to wrangle; to scold; to altercate; to contend; to fight.

Quarrel () To find fault; to cavil; as, to quarrel with one's lot.

Quarrel () To quarrel with.

Quarrel () To compel by a quarrel; as, to quarrel a man out of his estate or rights.

Quarrel () One who quarrels or wrangles; one who is quarrelsome.

Quarrelet () A little quarrel. See 1st Quarrel, 2.

Quarreling () Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood.

Quarrellous () Quarrelsome.

Quarrelsome () Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.

Quarried () Provided with prey.

Quarrier () A worker in a stone quarry.

Quarry () Same as 1st Quarrel.

Quarry () Quadrate; square.

Quarries () of Quarry

Quarry () A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.

Quarry () A heap of game killed.

Quarry () The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks.

Quarry () To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.

Quarry () 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).

Quarried () of Quarry

Quarrying () of Quarry

Quarry () To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.

Quarry-faced () Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point; -- said of stones.

Quarrymen () of Quarry-man

Quarry-man () A man who is engaged in quarrying stones; a quarrier.

Quart () The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.

Quart () 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.

Quart () A vessel or measure containing a quart.

Quart () In cards, four successive cards of the same suit. Cf. Tierce, 4.

Quartan () Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.

Quartan () An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days.

Quartan () A measure, the fourth part of some other measure.

Quartane () Butane, each molecule of which has four carbon atoms.

Quartation () 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.

Quarte () Same as 2d Carte.

Quartene () Same as Butylene.

Quartenylic () Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acrylic acid series, metameric with crotonic acid, and obtained as a colorless liquid; -- so called from having four carbon atoms in the molecule. Called also isocrotonic acid.

Quarter () One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, of a yard, of an hour, etc.

Quarter () The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds, according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds.

Quarter () The fourth of a ton in weight, or eight bushels of grain; as, a quarter of wheat; also, the fourth part of a chaldron of coal.

Quarter () The fourth part of the moon's period, or monthly revolution; as, the first quarter after the change or full.

Quarter () One limb of a quadruped with the adjacent parts; one fourth part of the carcass of a slaughtered animal, including a leg; as, the fore quarters; the hind quarters.

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