quarry water (kworiwater)

which is mechanically held between the particles of a newly quarried rock, and which gradually disappears by evaporation when this is kept from exposure to the weather. A part of this water only disappears after the rock has been heated to the boiling-point, and this is usually called hygroscopic moisture. The quantity of quarry-water held by rocks varies greatly in amount, according to their composition and texture. Some rocks which are so soft that they can be cut with a saw or chisel when freshly quarried become much harder after exposure to the air for a few weeks. The longer the stone [limestone] has been exposed to the air, the le fuel will be consumed in driving off its inherent moisture, or quarry - water . Spons ' Encyc . Manuf ., I. 619. quart1 (kwart), n . [ quarte , quarte , F. quarte , f., quart a (sc. pars ), a fourth part; cf. OF. quart , F. quart , m., = Sp. cuarto = Pg . quarto = It. quarto , fourth, a fourth part, quarter; And Camber did po e e the Western quart . Spenser, F. Q., II. x. 14. 2. A unit of measure, the fourth part of a gallon; also, a ve el of that capacity. Every gallon of liquid measure has a quart, and in the United States there is a quart of dry measure, although the use of the gallon of that measure is confined to Great Britain. In England the peck, or fourth part of a bushel, is sometimes called a quart. 1 United States liquid quart = 0.9468 liter. 1 United States dry quart = 1.1017 liters. 1 imperial quart 1 Scotch quart 1.1359 liters. 3.398 liters. Before the adoption of the metric system, there were measures of capacity corresponding to the quart in almost every part of Europe. Go fetch me a quart of sack; put a toast in 't. Yet would you Shak ., M. W. of W., iii. 5. 3. rail upon the hoste , Because she brought stone jugs and no seal'd quarts. Shak., T. of the S., Ind., ii. 89. Gla bottles of all qualities I buys at three for a halfpenny, but very seldom indeed 2d., unle it's something very prime and big like the old quarts. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, II. 122. 3. In music , the interval of a fourth: prefixed to the name of an instrument, it denotes one pitched a fourth lower or a fourth higher than the ordinary instrument. A succe ion of parallel quarts , quints, and octaves, which would be intolerable to modern ears. The Academy, Jan. 18, 1890, p. 51. 4. In Gloucestershire and Leicestershire, England, three pounds of butter; in the Isle of Man, seven pounds-that is, the fourth part of a quarter.-5. A Welsh measure of length or surface; a pole of 31 to 44 yards.