quostt

An obsolete spelling of coast. quota (kwō'ta), n. [ akin to qui.] A proportional part or share; share or proportion a igned to each; any required or proportionate single contribution to a total sum, number, or quantity. They never once furnished their quota either of ships or Swift, Conduct of the Allies. they are called rustic quoins or bo age . 2. A wedge-like piece of stone, wood, metal, or other material, used for various purposes. (a) In masonry , a wedge to support and steady a stone. (b) In printing , a short blunt wedge used by printers to secure the types in a chase or on a galley. Mechanical quoins are made of iron in many forms, pre ure being applied by means of the screw or by combined wedges. men. The power of raising armies, by the most obvious construction of the articles of the confederation, is merely a power of making requisitions upon the states for quotas of men. A. Hamilton , Federalist, No. 22. 4922 It is the prosaicism of these two writers [Cowper and Moore] to which is owing their especial quotability . Poe, Marginalia, xxviii. ( Davies.) quotable (kwō'ta-bl), a. [ cited. Mere vividne of expre ion, such as makes quotable pa ages, comes of the complete surrender of self to the impre ion, whether spiritual or sensual, of the moment. Lowell , Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 176.