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Washington* (1860) App. 48 For 3 coters of rye bought at
Harlcstoii. 1663 COWLKY ss., Avarice 129 In thy vast
Barns Millions of Quarters store. 1763 Museum Rust. I. 74
Wheat will one year sell for 5!. a load (that is, five quarters).
184$ McCuLLOCH Taxation i, \. (1852) 49 A farm which produces
100 quarters of wheat. 1862 ANSTED Channel Isi. iv.
(ed. 2) App. A. 567 The Jersey quarter (thirty-four gallons
and three quarts) [contains]
a little more than half an imperial
quarter. /& lfft c. 15 The said saincluarymen .. enter in euery
parte and quarter of the same towne. i6oa Return Jr. Parnass.
v. iv, What newes with you in this quarter of the Citty ?
1711 ADDISON Spect. No. 31 T i The several Shows that are
exhibited in different Quarters of the Town. 1756-7 tr.
Keyslers Trav. (1760) II. 467 Rome is divided into fourteen
rioni or quarters. 1820 W. IRVING Sketch Bk. I. 121 In
the most dark and dingy quarters of the city. 1864 D. G.
MITCHELL Sev. Star. 214 A narrow court .. which leads
into a moldering quarter of the city.
f t>. A particular place or point (in a building,
etc.). Obs.
ci44o Jacob's Wellfx) pis wose of pride has viij. corneres,
or viij. quarterys. ? 1449 Paston Lett. No. I. 67 83 They
have made wykets on every quarter of the hwse to schote
owte atte. c 1470 HENRY Wallace vm. 1051 At a quartar,
quhar fyr had nocht ourtayn, Thai tuk thaim out fra that
castell. i$6 Pjlgr. Per/, (W. de W. 1531) 131 That v
ennemy may fynde in vs no quarter to entre.
f C. A part of a gathering or assembly, army,
camp, etc. Obs.
1591 SHAKS. i Hen. Vft n. i. 63 Had all your Quarters
been as safely kept As that whereof I had the gouernement,
We had not beene. .surpriz'd. 1596 Edward ///, iv. iv.
S These quarters, squadrons, and these regiments. 1599
AKLUYT Voy. II. ir. 137 It is a thing almost impossible,
at any your Faires or publique assemblies to finde any
quarter thereof sober.
fd. To \ keep good quarter To keep good watch ;
to preserve good order. Obs.
1595 SHAKS. John v. v. 20 Well : keepe good quarter, &
good care to night. 1653 H. MORE Antid. Ath. u. viii. 2
(1712) 63 To have made Man that he might be a Lord over
the rest of the Creation and keep good quarter among them.
fe. To keep a . . . : quarter To maintain a (bad)
state of things, to behave in a (bad) way ; hence,
even without adj., to make a noise or disturbance.
1632 LITHGOW Trav. in. 88 The Souldiers kept a bloody
quarter among themselues. a 1654 SELDEN Table-t. (Arb.}
81 They keep a huge quarter when they carry it into the
Cellar. 1659 Conttnw. Ball. (Percy Soc.) 150 For all you
kept such a quarter, you are out of the councell of state.
1668 PEFYS Diary 29 Jan., They had fiddlers, and danced,
and kept a quarter, which pleased me though it disturbed
me. 1736 AINSWORTH Lat. Diet., What a quarter they keep
in the market. 1760 BARETTI Engl.'Ital. Dict.> To keep a
heavy quarter, fare un grande strepito.
15. Place of stay or residence ; dwelling-place,
lodgings, esp. of soldiers. Now usu. in//.
Free : quarterns) see FREE-QUARTER. Head-, home-, out-,
siimmer-iWinter-quartcrs: see the first element. Quarters
ofrefreshment (see quot. 1702-11). To beat up the quarters
of: see BEAT v. 1 28. To take up one's \ quarters to establish
oneself (in a place).
sing. 1591 Carrara's Art Warre 77 Let him remember. .
to bring backe again into his Quarter those souldiers bee
hath led foorth to any enterprise. 1649 G. DANIEL Trtnarch.,
Hen. IV. Ixxxiv, The Lords who must in state Lodge at the
Crowne . . Defray their Quarter at a Double Rate. 1679
Establ. Test. 25 In a place remote from his quarter, he rendevouzes
with his fellow adventurers. 1719 DE WotCrtua*
ii. vi. I went from their quarter. 1837 CARLYLE Fr. Rev.
III. i. v, The grate which led to our quarter opened anew.
1897 HUGHES Medit. Fever ii. 62 The . staff-sergeant .occupied
a two-room quarter a few yards away.
j5 1598 B - JONSON Ev. Man. in Hum. iv. v, Turnbull,
Whitechapel, Shoreditch, which were then my quarters.
i64S w - HKOWNE Let. to Wood 9 Sept. in WO&C* Life
(O. H.S.) I. 122 notet Our horse from Oxon. fell on the
enemies quarters
at Thame. 1660 BANCROFT Serin. 18 Nov.
in D'Oyly Life (1821) II. 320 God and his church pay their
quarters wherever they come. i7oa-u Afilit.