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quatre 363 queue
quatre, par la gauche par , (mil.) left by fours
(squads, U. S. A.);
se compter , (mil.) to count fours.
quatre-mats, m., (nav.) four-master.
quatre-quart, m., little square flip.
quayage, m., wharfage.
quenouille, f., distaff; (met.) sort of bott stick (to
regulate the flow of molten metal from a furnace).
quenouillfcre, f., (met.) bott stick.
quenouillette, f., v. quenouillere.
quenouillon, m., pledget of oakum used in calking.
querelle, f., quarrel;
chercher , to pick a quarrel;
prendre , to have a quarrel with.
quereller, v. a., to quarrel.
question, f., question; point; torture;
de cabinet, vital or cabinet question by which
a ministry will stand or fall;
defait, matter of fact;
de lieu, question of place;
de personne, question of person;
prealable, the previous question.
quStc, f., (nav.) ralte of the sternpost.
queue, f., tail, end, tip; rear, tail, of a procession;
file, string, of people; queue; tail of a letter;
billiard cue; train (of a cloak, etc.); pendant,
tailpiece; fly of a flag, point of a guidon; tangshank
of a button; tail-race, mill tail; tail of
a block; whetstone; (mas.) hinder, back, face of
a stone; (hydr.) end of a tongue of land, of a
bank; (mach.) end of a piston rod; (cons.) the
end of a stair seated in the wall of the case-
(cord.) down haul; (ball.) tailings (zone containing
6 per cent of the hits and lying between
the enveloppe and the circle whose radius is
three times that of the noyau)', (mil.) rear, tail
(of a column, etc.)
d , tailed;
d , in file;
d la , behind, in file, in a strung;
d In de, at the heels of; in pursuit;
d'affut, (art.) rear of top carriage;
d I'anglaise, anglaisee, (hipp.) docked
and nicked tail;
d'armee, (mil.) part of an army opposite to
the front de bandiere;
d'armons, (art.) fork or junction of foreguides;
d'aronde, (cons.) dovetail, dovetail scarf;
(fort.) crown or horn work whose branches
approach each other toward the body of the
place;
d'aronde couverte, (carp.) lapped dovetail;
d'aronde percee, (carp.) ordinary dovetail;
assemblage & d'aronde, d d'hironde.
(carp.) dovetailing;
assemblage d percee, (carp.) assemblage with
visible joints;
assemblage & perdue, (carp.) assemblage with
covered joints;
assembler a d'aronde, (cons.) to dovetail;
attaquer en , (mil.) to attack the rear of a
column;
d'auget, (sm. a.) tail or end of the cartridge
carrier;
aviron de , steering par;
en balai, (hipp.) tail ending in a sharp point
(i. e., docked, but with the hair long and coming
to a point);
d'un bane, (hydr.) end or tail of a bank;
de bataillon, etc., (mil.) rear or tail of a battalion,
etc., in column;
bien attachce, (hipp.) well-attached tail (dock
clear of buttocks, and in continuation of median
line of croup);
bouton d , shank but' on;
de camp, (mil.) rear of camp, part opposite
to front de bandiere;
de carpe, sort of iron cramp;
en catogan, (hipp.) docked tail, with the
hairs long on each side;
charger en , to load the rear end of anything;
de chat, cat-o'-nine tails;
queue de cheval, (mil.) horse tail (so called) used
as a standard;
cheval de rat, (hipp.) rat-tailed horse;
de cochon, auger with spiral point;
collee, v. mal attachce;
d'une colonnc, (mil.) tail of a column;
d'un convoi, etc., (mil.) tail of a convoy etc :
d'un cordage, (cord.) rat's tail;
faire un cordage en de rat, (cord.) to point at
rope;
d'un coup de vent, tail of a storm;
d'un couteau, tang of a knife blade;
de (la) culasse, (sm. a.) tang of the breech;
en cul-de-lampe, (cons.) pendant (keystone):
w , (drill) last, rearmost (in a column);
& la des depots, (mil.) (of recruits, etc.) to be
allowed to remain behind (to be put at the foot
of the list of men to be sent oil to the army);
de detente, (sm. a.) finger piece of a trigger.
trigger proper;
donner en, sur, la , v. prendre en ;
d'eau, tail water;
ecourtee, (hipp.) banged tail;
d'empanons, v. de fourchette;
en , behind, at one's heels;
d'enrayement, (r. r.) brake rod;
epissure en de rat, (cord.) pointed splice;
etre d la , to be in a file, in a column of file;
d'extracteur, (sm. a.) tang of the extractor;
faire de colonne, (mil.) to be at the tail, to
be the tail, of a column;
fausse , (hipp.) false tail;
de flasque, (art.) rear end of top carriage
cheek;
deforgeage, (met.) tong hold (of an ingot);
defourchette, fork of hind guides of a wagon;
de la gachette, (sm. a.) arm or tail;
garnir de s de rat, (cord.) to point ropes;
du glacis, (fort.) foot of the glacis;
d'un grain, final shower of a squall;
de la Grande Ourse, star at the end of the
Dipper; %
de greffage, (met.) tong hold;
d'un haut-fond, (hydr.) tail of a shoal;
de I'hiver, end of winter;
lettre d, sur, double , letter with its seal on a
band passed through the parchment;
lettre scellee sur simple , lettre & simple ,
letter with its seal on a corner of the parchment;
d'une ligne, (nav.) last ship in a line;
longueur de , (was.) length of a stone per-',
pendicular to the face of the wall ;
mal attachee, (hipp.) tail badly attached
(when dock is not well clear of buttocks) ;
d'un martinet, (mach.) tail of a tilt hammer;
mettre un de rat, (cord.) to point (a rope);
de morue, long wedge-shaped plank;
niquetee, (hipp.) nicked tail;
ouvraqe d d'aronde, (fort.) work whose faces ;
or branches splay outward ;
ouvrage d contre d'aronde, (fort.) work whose
branches run inward, toward the body of the
place,;
de paon, (cons.) fan-shaped tracery or inlaying;
d patte, (carp.) lapped dovetail;
d'un pavilion, tip of a flag;
d'un pavilion de la serie, (nav.) tack of a
signal flag;
perdue, (carp.) mitered dovetail;
de la Petite Ourse, the pole star;
pieced , (carp.) dovetailed piece;
d'une pierre, (mas.) back face of a stone;
porter la en trompe, (hipp.) to carry the tail
straight out;
d'une poulie, tail of a block;
prendre en , (mil.) to take (a column) in the
rear;
d procede, tipped billiard cue;