n. 1. a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body.
Syn. -- artery. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. arteriacus, Gr. &unr_;. See Artery. ] Of or pertaining to the windpipe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. artériel. ] 1. Of or pertaining to an artery, or the arteries; as, arterial action; the arterial system. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to a main channel (resembling an artery), as a river, canal, or railroad. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arterial blood, blood which has been changed and vitalized (arterialized) during passage through the lungs. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. same as arterialize.
Syn. -- arterialize [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Physiol.) The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aëration and hematosis. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Arterialized; p. pr. & vb. n. Arterializing. ] To transform, as the venous blood, into arterial blood by exposure to oxygen in the lungs; to make arterial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; + -graphy. ] A systematic description of the arteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an arteriole. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

/mhw>, n. [ NL. arteriola, dim. of L. arteria: cf. F. artériole. ] A small artery with a muscular wall. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; + -logy. ] That part of anatomy which treats of arteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'arthri`a + -logy. ] (Med.) a form of arteriosclerosis which affects predominantly the arterioles, found especially in people with chronic hypertension. Stedman [ PJC ]

‖n. [ NL.; Gr. &unr_; artery + sclerosis. ] (Med.) a chronic disease characterized by abnormal thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries, esp. of the intima, occurring mostly in old age. Subtypes are distinguished, such as arteriolosclerosis and atherosclerosis. -- Ar*te`ri*o*scle*rot"ic a. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to arteriosclerosis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. arteriotomia, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; + &unr_; a cutting. ] 1. (Med.) The opening of an artery, esp. for bloodletting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That part of anatomy which treats of the dissection of the arteries. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. connecting an artery to a vein. an arteriovenous fistula [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Artery + -etis. ] Inflammation of an artery or arteries. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Arteries [ L. arteria windpipe, artery, Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. The trachea or windpipe. [ Obs. ] “Under the artery, or windpipe, is the mouth of the stomach.” Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) One of the vessels or tubes which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart. They have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In man and other mammals, the arteries which contain arterialized blood receive it from the left ventricle of the heart through the aorta. See Aorta. The pulmonary artery conveys the venous blood from the right ventricle to the lungs, whence the arterialized blood is returned through the pulmonary veins. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence: Any continuous or ramified channel of communication; as, arteries of trade or commerce. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bartered (bär"t&etilde_;rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Bartering.] [OE. bartren, OF. barater, bareter, to cheat, exchange, perh. fr. Gr. pra`ttein to do, deal (well or ill), use practices or tricks, or perh. fr. Celtic; cf. Ir. brath treachery, W. brad. Cf. Barrator.] To traffic or trade, by exchanging one commodity for another, in distinction from a sale and purchase, in which money is paid for the commodities transferred; to truck. [1913 Webster]

v. t. To trade or exchange in the way of barter; to exchange (frequently for an unworthy consideration); to traffic; to truck; -- sometimes followed by away; as, to barter away goods or honor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

The spirit of huckstering and barter. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The thing given in exchange. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Exchange; dealing; traffic; trade; truck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who barters. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Barter. [ Obs. ] Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A charioteer. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A man who drives a cart; a teamster. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) (a) Any species of Phalangium; -- also called harvestman. (b) A British fish; the whiff. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. chartre, F. chartre, charte, fr. L. chartula a little paper, dim. of charta. See Chart, Card. ] 1. A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king [ John, a.d. 1215 ], with a facility somewhat suspicious, signed and sealed the charter which was required of him. This famous deed, commonly called the “Great Charter, ” either granted or secured very important liberties and privileges to every order of men in the kingdom. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A special privilege, immunity, or exemption. [ 1913 Webster ]

My mother,
Who has a charter to extol her blood,
When she does praise me, grieves me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Com.) The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below. [ 1913 Webster ]

Charter land (O. Eng. Law), land held by charter, or in socage; bookland. --
Charter member, one of the original members of a society or corporation, esp. one named in a charter, or taking part in the first proceedings under it. --
Charter party [ F. chartre partie, or charte partie, a divided charter; from the practice of cutting the instrument of contract in two, and giving one part to each of the contractors ] (Com.), a mercantile lease of a vessel; a specific contract by which the owners of a vessel let the entire vessel, or some principal part of the vessel, to another person, to be used by the latter in transportation for his own account, either under their charge or his. --
People's Charter (Eng. Hist.), the document which embodied the demands made by the Chartists, so called, upon the English government in 1838. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Chartered p. pr. & vb. n. Chartering. ] 1. To establish by charter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To hire or let by charter, as a ship. See Charter party, under Charter, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Granted or established by charter; having, or existing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sufficiency of chartered rights. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

The air, a chartered libertine. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hired or let by charter, as a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who charters; esp. one who hires a ship for a voyage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Chartist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who darts, or who throw darts; that which darts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The snakebird, a water bird of the genus Plotus; -- so called because it darts out its long, snakelike neck at its prey. See Snakebird. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A small fresh-water etheostomoid fish. The group includes numerous genera and species, all of them American. See Etheostomoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who refines metals by separation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who departs. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. ep- + arterial. ] (Anat.) Situated upon or above an artery; -- applied esp. to the branches of the bronchi given off above the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. gartier, F. jarretière, fr. OF. garet bend of the knee, F. jarret; akin to Sp. garra claw, Prov. garra leg. See Garrote. ] 1. A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Her.) Same as Bendlet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Garter fish (Zool.), a fish of the genus Lepidopus, having a long, flat body, like the blade of a sword; the scabbard fish. --
Garter king-at-arms, the chief of the official heralds of England, king-at-arms to the Order of the Garter; -- often abbreviated to Garter. --
Garter snake (Zool.), one of several harmless American snakes of the genus Eutænia, of several species (esp. E. saurita and E. sirtalis); one of the striped snakes; -- so called from its conspicuous stripes of color. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Gartered p. pr. & vb. n. Gartering. ] 1. To bind with a garter. [ 1913 Webster ]

He . . . could not see to garter his hose. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To invest with the Order of the Garter. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

. The simplest stitch in knitting. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. pl. [ but sometimes used as a n. sing. ] 1. The quarters or place of residence of any chief officer, as the general in command of an army, or the head of a police force; the place from which orders or instructions are issued; hence, the center of authority or order. [ 1913 Webster ]

The brain, which is the headquarters, or office, of intelligence. Collier. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The main office from which an organization such as a commercial enterprise is managed; -- usually where the chief executive officer works. [ PJC ]

n. the back half of a side of meat, from about the twelfth rib back. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. the fleshy part of the human body at the back of the hip, on which a person sits; teh buttocks.
Syn. -- buttocks, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the part of a quadruped that corresponds to the human buttocks.
Syn. -- croup, croupe, rump. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Hypo- + arterial. ] (Anat.) Situated below an artery; applied esp. to the branches of the bronchi given off below the point where the pulmonary artery crosses the bronchus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who imparts. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Bot.) Ribbon grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A name given to several common weedy European plants of the Goosefoot family, introduced into N. America, and sometimes used as pot herbs, as Chenopodium album and Atriplex patulsa. It is sometimes collected from the wild and eaten as a vegetable
Syn. -- lamb's quarters, pigweed, wild spinach, Chenopodium album. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) Same as Marten. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a person with a record of failing.
Syn. -- loser, failure, unsuccessful person. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A horse that fails to run in a race for which it has been entered. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. A proposal that will not receive serious consideration by those with authority to decide. [ PJC ]

n. One who, or which, parts or separates. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. par on, by (L. per) + terre earth, ground, L. terra. See Terrace. ] 1. (Hort.) An ornamental and diversified arrangement of beds or plots, in which flowers are cultivated, with intervening spaces of gravel or turf for walking on. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The pit of a theater; the parquet. [ France ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. quartier, L. quartarius a fourth part, fr. quartus the fourth. See Quart. ] 1. 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. Hence, specifically: (a) The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds, according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds. (b) 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. Hutton. (c) (Astron.) The fourth part of the moon's period, or monthly revolution; as, the first quarter after the change or full. (d) 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. (e) That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp. (f) (Far.) That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin. (g) A term of study in a seminary, college, etc, etc.; properly, a fourth part of the year, but often longer or shorter. (h) pl. (Mil.) The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys. (i) (Naut.) The after-part of a vessel's side, generally corresponding in extent with the quarter-deck; also, the part of the yardarm outside of the slings. (j) (Her.) One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in the fess point. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ When two coats of arms are united upon one escutcheon, as in case of marriage, the first and fourth quarters display one shield, the second and third the other. See Quarter, v. t., 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

(k) One of the four parts into which the horizon is regarded as divided; a cardinal point; a direction' principal division; a region; a territory. [ 1913 Webster ]

Scouts each coast light-armed scour,
Each quarter, to descry the distant foe. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

(l) A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris. (m) (Arch.) A small upright timber post, used in partitions; -- in the United States more commonly called stud. (n) (Naut.) The fourth part of the distance from one point of the compass to another, being the fourth part of 11° 15′, that is, about 2° 49′; -- called also quarter point. [ 1913 Webster ]

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2. Proper station; specific place; assigned position; special location. [ 1913 Webster ]

Swift to their several quarters hasted then
The cumbrous elements. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hence, specifically: (a) (Naut.) A station at which officers and men are posted in battle; -- usually in the plural. (b) Place of lodging or temporary residence; shelter; entertainment; -- usually in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

The banter turned as to what quarters each would find. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) pl. (Mil.) A station or encampment occupied by troops; a place of lodging for soldiers or officers; as, winter quarters. (d) Treatment shown by an enemy; mercy; especially, the act of sparing the life a conquered enemy; a refraining from pushing one's advantage to extremes. [ 1913 Webster ]

He magnified his own clemency, now they were at his mercy, to offer them quarter for their lives. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cocks and lambs . . . at the mercy of cats and wolves . . . must never expect better quarter. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Friendship; amity; concord. [ Obs. ] To keep quarter, to keep one's proper place, and so be on good terms with another. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In quarter, and in terms like bride and groom. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I knew two that were competitors for the secretary's place, . . . and yet kept good quarter between themselves. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

False quarter, a cleft in the quarter of a horse's foot. --
Fifth quarter, the hide and fat; -- a butcher's term. --
On the quarter (Naut.), in a direction between abeam and astern; opposite, or nearly opposite, a vessel's quarter. --
Quarter aspect. (Astrol.) Same as Quadrate. --
Quarter back (Football), the player who has position next behind center rush, and receives the ball on the snap back. --
Quarter badge (Naut.), an ornament on the side of a vessel near, the stern. Mar. Dict. --
Quarter bill (Naut.), a list specifying the different stations to be taken by the officers and crew in time of action, and the names of the men assigned to each. --
Quarter block (Naut.), a block fitted under the quarters of a yard on each side of the slings, through which the clew lines and sheets are reeved. R. H. Dana, Jr. --
Quarter boat (Naut.), a boat hung at a vessel's quarter. --
Quarter cloths (Naut.), long pieces of painted canvas, used to cover the quarter netting. --
Quarter day, a day regarded as terminating a quarter of the year; hence, one on which any payment, especially rent, becomes due. In matters influenced by United States statutes, quarter days are the first days of January, April, July, and October. In New York and many other places, as between landlord and tenant, they are the first days of May, August, November, and February. The quarter days usually recognized in England are 25th of March (Lady Day), the 24th of June (Midsummer Day), the 29th of September (Michaelmas Day), and the 25th of December (Christmas Day). --
Quarter face, in fine arts, 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 quarter, or
To 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Quartered p. pr. & vb. n. Quartering. ] 1. To divide into four equal parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To divide; to separate into parts or regions. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then sailors quartered heaven. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

They mean this night in Sardis to be quartered. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To furnish as a portion; to allot. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This isle . . .
He quarters to his blue-haired deities. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ When only two coats of arms are so combined they are arranged in four compartments. See Quarter, n., 1 (f). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To lodge; to have a temporary residence. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every creature that met us would rely on us for quartering. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]