Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The grain of wood shown when a log is quartered. See
quartered , 4. Comparefelt-grain .
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Examples
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Eventually he manages to hit an alcoholic doctor for a quarter-grain tablet of morphine.
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“Heard him say before the op. that a quarter-grain would be a fatal dose.”
The Nursing Home Murder Marsh, Ngaio, 1899-1982 1963
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The third day of January, greatly to my surprise, a quarter-grain I found carried me through the twenty-four hours with apparently some slight remission of suffering.
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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"Just now you're going to have a quarter-grain of sleep dope and go to bed again."
No Man's Land 1912
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For the pains I prescribed some quarter-grain tablets of sulphate of morphia, and went away.
The Purple Cloud 1906
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"I have here a grain and a half of morphine in quarter-grain tablets.
The Tyranny of Weakness Charles Neville Buck 1904
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