quart

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A unit of volume or capacity in the US Customary System, used in liquid measure, equal to ¹/₄ gallon or 32 ounces (0.946 liter).
• noun A unit of volume or capacity in the US Customary System, used in dry measure, equal to ¹/₈ peck or 2 pints (1.101 liters).
• noun A unit of volume or capacity in the British Imperial System, used in liquid and dry measure, equal to 1.201 US liquid quarts or 1.032 US dry quarts (1.136 liters).
• noun A container having a capacity of one quart.
• noun The contents of such a container.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Safe; sound; in good health.
• noun Safety; health.
• noun A quarter of the horizon.
• In fencing, to make a pass while holding the sword hand with the nails turned upward.
• An abbreviation of quarter;
• of quarterly.
• noun In card-playing, a sequence of four cards. A quart major is a sequence of the highest four cards in any suit.
• noun One of the eight thrusts and parries in fencing.
• noun A fourth part or division; a quarter.
• noun A unit of measure, the fourth part of a gallon; also, a vessel of that capacity.
• noun In music, the interval of a fourth: prefixed to the name of an instrument, it denotes one pitched a fourth lower or a fourth higher than the ordinary instrument.
• noun In Gloucestershire and Leicestershire, England, three pounds of butter; in the Isle of Man, seven pounds—that is, the fourth part of a quarter.
• noun A Welsh measure of length or surface; a pole of 3½ to 4½ yards.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun obsolete The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
• noun A measure of capacity, both in dry and in liquid measure; the fourth part of a gallon; the eighth part of a peck; two pints.
• noun A vessel or measure containing a quart.
• noun In cards, four successive cards of the same suit. Cf. tierce, 4.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S.
• noun card games Four successive cards of the same suit.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a United States liquid unit equal to 32 fluid ounces; four quarts equal one gallon
• noun a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 pints or 1.136 liters
• noun a United States dry unit equal to 2 pints or 67.2 cubic inches