Word Meanings - QUARTERED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Divided into four equal parts or quarters; separated into four parts or regions. 2. Furnished with quarters; provided with shelter or entertainment. 3. Quarter-sawed; -- said of timber, commonly oak.
Related words: (words related to QUARTERED)
- SEPARATISM
The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing. - SAWDUST
Dust or small fragments of wood 9or of stone, etc.) made by the cutting of a saw. - FURNISHMENT
The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel. - DIVIDER
An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses. Note: The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters. - DIVIDEND
A number or quantity which is to be divided. (more info) 1. A sum of money to be divided and distributed; the share of a sum divided that falls to each individual; a distribute sum, share, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated - SHELTERLESS
Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe. - SAWFLY
Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family Tenthredinidæ. The female usually has an ovipositor containing a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes incisions in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay - SAWHORSE
A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck. - EQUALIZER
One who, or that which, equalizes anything. - SEPARATIVE
Causing, or being to cause, separation. "Separative virtue of extreme cold." Boyle. - QUARTER ROUND
An ovolo. - PROVIDENCE
A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction. He that hath a numerous family, and many to provide for, needs a greater providence of God. Jer. Taylor. 4. Prudence in - SAW
imp. of See. - SAWARRA NUT
See NUT - SAWYER
The bowfin. (more info) 1. One whose occupation is to saw timber into planks or boards, or to saw wood for fuel; a sawer. 2. A tree which has fallen into a stream so that its branches project above the surface, rising and falling with a rocking - COMMONLY
1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser. - TIMBERMAN
A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine. Weale. - EQUALIZE
1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely - TIMBER
A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, (more info) Sw. timber, LG. timmer, MHG. zimber, G. zimmer, F. timbre, LL. - QUARTERON; QUARTEROON
A quadroon. - SUBINDIVIDUAL
A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton. - INSEPARATE
Not separate; together; united. Shak. - UNEQUALABLE
Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle. - INEQUALITY
An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; - BACKSAW
A saw whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back. - INDIVIDUALIZER
One who individualizes. - SUBDIVIDE
To divide the parts of into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided. The progenies of Cham and Japhet swarmed into colonies, and those colonies were subdivided into many others. Dryden.