Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of four; fourfold; growing by fours: as, quatern leaves.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
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Examples
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And like ye evil quatern or ye hills that skirt ye skies,
A Little Book of Western Verse Eugene Field 1872
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Cut off from all the sweets of life, how many delicious hours did he introduce into the bosom of his family when, every two weeks, he put the value of a day's labor on a _quatern_.
Sophisms of the Protectionists Fr��d��ric Bastiat 1825
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