quatern

ANEROID, BANQUET, CARMINE, DARLING, EVADING, FROWNED, GARMENT, HARVEST, INVOKED, JARDINE, KNAVISH, LAMBKIN, MACHINE, NEARISH, ORDINAL, PRANCED, QUATERN, RAINBOW, SARDINE, THUNDER, UNEARTH, VARNISH, WHARVES, XIBRESH (Albania), YARDMEN, ZARNICH (Bulgaria)

and Synal, H.-A., 2002, Cosmogenic nuclides during isotope stages 2 and 3: Quatern. Sci.

Rate + .0000 + .1560 Quatern. Rate + .0140 + .0004 Pop.

He was particularly dismayed that baby shows offered prizes for multiple births: twins, triplets and, in the parlance of the day, quaterns. "We know of no one," he wrote, "but slaveholders anxious to change woman from an uniparous to a multiparous animal." Were contests to follow out this logic, slaveholders might begin "to throw aside all but the 'triplets' and 'quaterns' and reproduce from them.