quartern

Malaria has traditionally been classified into malignant tertian (MT), benign tertian (BT) and quartern malaria.

What would the Christmas season be without reading, hearing, or seeing Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol?" In that story Dickens captures the joy that marks the holiday, especially in his description of domestic bliss, the Cratchit family sitting around the table enjoying their Christmas dinner, especially the "pudding, like a speckled cannon-ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half a quartern of ignited brandy."

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he would neither treat any electors to a single barrel of beer nor a single quartern of rum: if any one wanted such a person, he was not the man (loud cheers).

In all, she received sixteen pence for the clothes, enough for a 'quartern of gin'.

Robinson Esquires for selling 30 quartern loaves of bread to a chandler's shop, not being 24 hours old, contrary to the late Act of Parliament.

[54] Luke Burgis and Henry Devon claimed that they bought a quartern of gin "in a roome" from Elizabeth Maletrat.

Readers will find interesting material about Abernethy biscuits, said to relieve flatulence; about John Dando, a celebrated glutton with a remarkable appetite for oysters; and about the legendary pig-faced lady, "born to a wealthy lady as her punishment for scorning a beggar's child as a 'nasty pig.'" Some of the eccentric spellings and pronunciations of Dickens' characters, such as "kervorten" for "quartern," are annotated, and the fact that the glossary is combined with an index allows one to determine a variety of interesting things: For example, that Dickens seems to have employed the slang term "spoffish" only twice, both times in 1834.