quarrier1 (kworier)

[ Aboute hym lefte he no masoun That stoon coude leye, ne querrour . Rom. of the Rose, 1. 4149. The men of Rome, which were the conquerors of all nations about them, were now of warriors become quarriers , hewers of stone and day laborers. Holland, tr. of Livy, p. 35. ( Davies .) When in wet weather the quarrier can sit chipping his stone into portable shape. Harper's Mag ., LXX. 243. quarrier2t, quariert, n. [Also currier (see cur rier2); quarier , ult. quadratus , square: see quarry1 , quart1 , square.] A wax candle, consisting of a square lump of wax with a wick in the center. Also called quarion . All the endes of quarriers and prickets. Ord. and Reg., p. 295. ( Hall i well .) To light the waxen quariers The auncient nurce is prest. Romeus and Juliet . ( Nares .) [Early mod. E.