building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose | clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent |
a lack of feeling or expression or movement | the rear part of a ship |
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter | piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp |
the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed | a district of a city having some distinguishing character |
an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds | an unspecified person |
material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust | a United States or Canadian coin worth one fourth of a dollar |
a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry | one of four equal parts |
| a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds) |
| a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds) |
| one of the four major division of the compass |
| one of four periods into which the school year is divided |
| (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided |
| a fourth part of a year; three months |
| a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour |