District (a.) Rigorous |
District (n.) The territory within which the lord has the power of coercing and punishing. |
District (n.) A division of territory |
District (n.) Any portion of territory of undefined extent |
District (v. t.) To divide into districts or limited portions of territory |
Lamb's-quarters (n.) A name given to several plants of the Goosefoot family, sometimes used as pot herbs, as Chenopodium album and Atriplex patulsa. |
Land-poor (a.) Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land. |
Poor (superl.) Destitute of property |
Poor (superl.) So completely destitute of property as to be entitled to maintenance from the public. |
Poor (superl.) Destitute of such qualities as are desirable, or might naturally be expected |
Poor (superl.) Wanting in fat, plumpness, or fleshiness |
Poor (superl.) Wanting in strength or vigor |
Poor (superl.) Of little value or worth |
Poor (superl.) Destitute of fertility |
Poor (superl.) Destitute of beauty, fitness, or merit |
Poor (superl.) Without prosperous conditions or good results |
Poor (superl.) Inadequate |
Poor (superl.) Worthy of pity or sympathy |
Poor (superl.) Free from self-assertion |
Poor (n.) A small European codfish (Gadus minutus) |
Poor-john (n.) A small European fish, similar to the cod, but of inferior quality. |
Poor-spirited (a.) Of a mean spirit |
Poor-will (n.) A bird of the Western United States (Phalaenoptilus Nutalli) allied to the whip-poor-will. |
Poor-willie (n.) The bar-tailed godwit. |
Quarter (n.) One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided |
Quarter (n.) The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds, according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds. |
Quarter (n.) The fourth of a ton in weight, or eight bushels of grain |
Quarter (n.) The fourth part of the moon's period, or monthly revolution |
Quarter (n.) One limb of a quadruped with the adjacent parts |
Quarter (n.) That part of a boot or shoe which forms the side, from the heel to the vamp. |
Quarter (n.) That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin. |
Quarter (n.) A term of study in a seminary, college, etc, etc. |
Quarter (n.) The encampment on one of the principal passages round a place besieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys. |
Quarter (n.) The after-part of a vessel's side, generally corresponding in extent with the quarter-deck |
Quarter (n.) One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in the fess point. |
Quarter (v. t.) A division of a town, city, or county |
Quarter (v. t.) A small upright timber post, used in partitions |
Quarter (v. t.) The fourth part of the distance from one point of the compass to another, being the fourth part of 11¡ |
Quarter (v. t.) Proper station |
Quarter (v. t.) A station at which officers and men are posted in battle |
Quarter (v. t.) Place of lodging or temporary residence |
Quarter (v. t.) A station or encampment occupied by troops |
Quarter (v. t.) Treatment shown by an enemy |
Quarter (v. t.) Friendship |
Quarter (v. i.) To lodge |
Quarter (v. i.) To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels. |
Quarter-deck (n.) That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one. |
Quarter round () An ovolo. |
Three-quarter (a.) Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five |
Whip-poor-will (n.) An American bird (Antrostomus vociferus) allied to the nighthawk and goatsucker |
close-quarter fighting | hand-to-hand fighting at close quarters |
quarter | clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent, he surrendered but asked for quarter |
quarter horse | a small powerful horse originally bred for sprinting in quarter-mile races in Virginia |
living quarters quarters | housing available for people to live in, he found quarters for his family, I visited his bachelor quarters |
military quarters | living quarters for personnel on a military post |
ovolo thumb quarter round | a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse |
poor box alms box mite box | box for collecting alms, especially one in a church |
quarter | piece of leather that comprises the part of a shoe or boot covering the heel and joining the vamp |
quarter plate | a photographic plate measuring . inches by . inches |
stern after part quarter poop tail | the rear part of a ship |
three-quarter binding | the spine and much of the sides are a different material from the rest of the cover |
poor law | a law providing support for the poor |
Standard and Poor's Standard and Poor's Index | a broadly based stock market index |
quarter tone quarter-tone | half of a semitone |
quarter note crotchet | a musical note having the time value of a quarter of a whole note |
quarter rest | a musical rest having one-fourth the time value of a whole rest |
f bomber grinder hero hero sandwich hoagie hoagy Cuban sandwich Italian sandwich poor boy sub submarine submarine sandwich torpedo wedge zep | a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments), different names are used in different sections of the United States |
lamb's-quarter pigweed wild spinach | leaves collected from the wild |
poor people poor | people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group), the urban poor need assistance |
quarter sessions | a local court with criminal jurisdiction and sometimes administrative functions |
administrative district administrative division territorial division | a district defined for administrative purposes |
borderland border district march marchland | district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area, the Welsh marches between England and Wales |
district line | the boundary between two districts |
city district | a district of a town or city |
voting precinct election district | one of several districts into which a city or town is divided for voting, each contains one polling place |
business district downtown | the central area or commercial center of a town or city, the heart of Birmingham's downtown |
congressional district | a territorial division of a state, entitled to elect one member to the United States House of Representatives |
district territory territorial dominion dominion | a region marked off for administrative or other purposes |
federal district | a district set apart as the seat of government of a federation |
residential district residential area community | a district where people live, occupied primarily by private residences |
red-light district | a district with many brothels |
tenement district | a residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses |
school district | a district whose public schools are administered together |
close quarters | a situation of being uncomfortably close to someone or something |
quarter | a district of a city having some distinguishing character, the Latin Quarter |
Lake District Lakeland | a popular tourist area in northwestern England including England's largest lake and highest mountain |
Left Bank Latin Quarter | the region of Paris on the southern bank of the Seine, a center of artistic and student life |
District of Columbia D.C. DC | the district occupied entirely by the city of Washington, chosen by George Washington as the site of the capital of the United States and created out of land ceded by Maryland and Virginia |
continental slope bathyal zone bathyal district | the steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zone |
white trash poor white trash | (slang) an offensive term for White people who are impoverished |
charge of quarters | an enlisted man who handles his unit's administrative matters after hours |
district attorney DA | an official prosecutor for a judicial district |
district manager | a manager who supervises the sales activity for a district |
poor devil wretch | someone you feel sorry for |
poor person have-not | a person with few or no possessions |
quarter | an unspecified person, he dropped a word in the right quarter |
speller good speller poor speller | someone who spells words |
stupid stupid person stupe dullard dolt pudding head pudden-head poor fish pillock | a person who is not very bright, The economy, stupid! |
lamb's-quarters pigweed wild spinach Chenopodium album | common weedy European plant introduced into North America, often used as a potherb |
scarlet pimpernel red pimpernel poor man's weatherglass Anagallis arvensis | herb with scarlet or white or purple blossoms that close at approach of rainy weather |