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Poems by T. S. Eliot
The Four Quartets are a set of four poems written by T. S. Eliot that were published over a six-year period. The first poem, Burnt Norton, was published
Four_Quartets
Annual poetry award
The Four Quartets Prize is an award of the Poetry Society of America, presented annually since 2018 in partnership with the T. S. Eliot Foundation. It
Four_Quartets_Prize
Poet, essayist and playwright (1888–1965)
Waste Land (1922), "The Hollow Men" (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), and Four Quartets (1943). He wrote seven plays, including Murder in the Cathedral (1935)
T._S._Eliot
Ensemble of four singers or instrumental performers
"vocal quartet" usually refers to ensembles of four singers of the same gender. This is particularly common for barbershop quartets and Gospel quartets. Some
Quartet
string quartets and four double quartets (for two string quartets). List of string quartets by Louis Spohr Henry Bishop (1786–1855): String Quartet in C
List of string quartet composers
List_of_string_quartet_composers
Musical ensemble of four string players
The term string quartet is a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play the quartets. Many composers from the mid-18th century onwards
String_quartet
Close harmony a cappella singing group
barbershop quartets were mainly sung by male singers; contemporary quartets can include any gender combination. All-female barbershop quartets were often
Barbershop_quartet
British actor (born 1957)
(2005) directed by Travis Preston. He has also performed T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets in London and New York City, and was seen in the 2010 Bridge Project's
Stephen_Dillane
English film director and producer (born 1967)
cinematographer Remko Schnoor, and in 2022 worked with Mike Eley BSC on Four Quartets. Since 2006 Fiennes has edited her films (sometimes under the pseudonym
Sophie_Fiennes
Group of compositions by Ludwig van Beethoven
He composed the quartets in the sequence 12, 15, 13, 14, 16, writing 13 and 15 simultaneously. Beethoven wrote these last quartets in failing health
Late string quartets (Beethoven)
Late_string_quartets_(Beethoven)
1942 poem by T. S. Eliot
Little Gidding is the fourth and final poem of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, a series of poems that discuss time, perspective, humanity, and salvation
Little_Gidding_(poem)
American actress (born 1945)
Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 2018, Chalfant read T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets at the Bard SummerScape Festival as part of a new performance with choreography
Kathleen_Chalfant
English actor and director (born 1962)
"Four Quartets review – Ralph Fiennes meets TS Eliot in a triumphant return". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 12 July 2023. "Four Quartets, starring
Ralph_Fiennes
English anchoress (c. 1343 – after 1416)
well" three times into his poem "Little Gidding", the fourth of his Four Quartets (1943), as well as Julian's "the ground of our beseeching". The poem
Julian_of_Norwich
String quartet by Ludwig van Beethoven
first movement, like that of the thirteenth quartet, is based on a motif that recurs throughout the late quartets and in the Große Fuge as well: the second
String Quartet No. 15 (Beethoven)
String_Quartet_No._15_(Beethoven)
1936 poem written by T. S. Eliot
Burnt Norton is the first poem of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. He wrote it while working on his play Murder in the Cathedral, and it was first published
Burnt_Norton
Salvages. London: Faber. 1941. Little Gidding. London: Faber. 1942. Four Quartets. New York: Harcourt, Brace. 1943. A Practical Possum. Cambridge: Harvard
T._S._Eliot_bibliography
String Quartets No. 1 and 2 by Brahms
genre. He reportedly destroyed some twenty string quartets before allowing the two Op. 51 quartets to be published. Explaining his progress to a publisher
String Quartets, Op. 51 (Brahms)
String_Quartets,_Op._51_(Brahms)
American poet
Micheaux is an American poet whose work Circus was the winner of the 2019 Four Quartets Prize, presented by the Poetry Society of America in partnership with
Dante_Micheaux
Village in Cambridgeshire, England
it into his long poem, "Little Gidding", as part of his collection Four Quartets (1945). At the time of the Domesday Book, the only entry for this area
Little_Gidding
String quartets by Joseph Haydn
The String Quartets, Op. 50 (Hob. III/44–49, L. 36–41), were composed by Joseph Haydn in 1787. The set of six quartets was dedicated to King Frederick
String Quartets, Op. 50 (Haydn)
String_Quartets,_Op._50_(Haydn)
British actor (born 1937)
regular appearances on stage in London's West End. He was seen in Four Quartets, a set of four poems by T. S. Eliot, accompanied by the keyboard music of Johann
Edward_Fox_(actor)
American poet
Smith's sonnet sequence "summer, somewhere" received the inaugural Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of America. At the age of 29, Smith also
Danez_Smith
1940 poem by T. S. Eliot
East Coker is the second poem of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. It was started as a way for Eliot to get back into writing poetry and was modelled after
East_Coker_(poem)
was absent." This composition and a lost early string quartet from 1936 are the only quartets Cage wrote that were explicitly labelled as such. Only
String_Quartet_in_Four_Parts
English actor (born 1989)
November 2022). "The best theatre to stream this month: The Book of Dust, Four Quartets and the start of panto season". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 November
Billy_Howle
1751 poem by Thomas Gray
the Four Quartets; both poems rely on the yew tree as an image and use the word "twittering", which was uncommon at the time. Each of Eliot's four poems
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Elegy_Written_in_a_Country_Churchyard
2007 Italian film
four quartets directed by Giovanni Veronesi. It is the sequel of Manual of Love and was followed by Manual of Love 3. The film is divided into four episodes
Manual_of_Love_2
Austrian card game
went on to inspire Top Trumps. Quartets is played with three or more players, with the aim to win quartets (sets of four). Each card usually has a number
Quartets_(card_game)
Estonian composer, poet and essayist (born 1971)
death as found in Christian faith. The cycle "Four Quartets" combines his own poems with string quartets and follows T. S. Eliot’s work of the same title
Jüri_Reinvere
Topics referred to by the same term
album), 1996 Quartet (Tony Rice and Peter Rowan album), 2007 Quartet (Ultravox album), 1982 Quartets (Boxhead Ensemble album), 2003 Quartets (Fred Frith
Quartet_(disambiguation)
Set of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dedicated to Joseph Haydn
The "Haydn" Quartets by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are a set of six string quartets published in 1785 in Vienna as his Op. 10, dedicated to the composer Joseph
Haydn_Quartets_(Mozart)
1941 poem written by T. S. Eliot
poem of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, marking the beginning of the point when the series was consciously being shaped as a set of four poems. It was written
The_Dry_Salvages
2012 American film
Men". T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, which Peter reads from at the beginning of the film, itself was inspired by Beethoven's late quartets. Ludwig van Beethoven:
A_Late_Quartet
British actor
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David_Banks_(actor)
Four Jacks was a Danish vocal quartet, founded in 1956 by Poul Rudi and Otto Brandenburg. John Mogensen joined shortly afterwards, and gradually took
Four_Jacks_(quartet)
Six string quartets by Joseph Haydn
analysts see the impact of these emotions and ideas on the quartets. The set of quartets, along with their incipits are shown below in order of Haydn's
String Quartets, Op. 20 (Haydn)
String_Quartets,_Op._20_(Haydn)
Centaur in Greek mythology
Phlegethon. The episode is the basis for a section of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, Little Gidding IV, mirroring the greater theme of the poem. The story
Nessus_(centaur)
Methods beyond critique, critical theory, and ideological criticism
postcritical forms of interpretation in an analysis of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets. Contemporary literary critics associated with postcritique include
Postcritique
1808 string quartet by Ludwig van Beethoven
string quartets. This work is the first of three quartets commissioned by prince Andrey Razumovsky, then the Russian ambassador to Vienna. This quartet is
String Quartet No. 7 (Beethoven)
String_Quartet_No._7_(Beethoven)
French philosopher (1888–1974)
reader of the Four Quartets and toyed with the idea of publishing a poetical refutation of the poem. (See, e.g., his "On Reading the Four Quartets.") In post-war
Jean_Wahl
Six string quartets by W. A. Mozart (1773)
string quartets, K. 168–173, were composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in late 1773 in Vienna. These are popularly known as the Viennese Quartets. Mozart
Viennese_Quartets_(Mozart)
2005 Italian film
Manuale d'amore) is a 2005 Italian blockbuster romantic comedy film in four quartets. It was directed by Giovanni Veronesi, who made two sequels, Manuale
Manual_of_Love
Musical ensemble with four saxophones
written quartets include Phil Woods, Alexander Glazunov, Eugene Bozza, Philip Glass, Juan María Solare, and others. Since the 1970s jazz quartets have started
Saxophone_quartet
1988 composition by Steve Reich
bells, and prerecorded multiple lines by the string quartet, thus effectively creating four quartets out of one, reflective of three Counterpoint pieces
Different_Trains
Index of articles associated with the same name
String Quartet in F major is one of four quartets by Beethoven: String Quartet No. 1 (Beethoven), Op. 18 no. 1, an early quartet String Quartet No. 7 (Beethoven)
String Quartet in F major (Beethoven)
String_Quartet_in_F_major_(Beethoven)
shape note singing, barbershop quartets, jubilee songs, spirituals, and other Gospel songs. Gospel quartets sing in four-part harmony, with parts given
Gospel_quartet
Scottish actress (born 1937)
of Oswestry in Shropshire. Reid returned to the school to read ‘The Four Quartets’ by T. S. Eliot, at the Old Moretonian Grand Centenary Reunion celebration
Sheila_Reid
include any number of poems, ranging from a few (e.g. the four long poems in T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets) to several hundred poems (as is often seen in collections
List_of_poetry_collections
String quartet at the Juilliard School in New York
Between March and August 1949, the quartet became the first group to record Béla Bartók's complete string quartets. Columbia released the recordings in
Juilliard_String_Quartet
collaborative enterprise in response to T. S. Eliot's magnum opus, "Four Quartets". bruceherman.com 2010 Gordon-College 2010 Herman 2011 bruceherman.com
Bruce_Herman
1782 composition by W. A. Mozart
perhaps edited in 1783. This is the first of the Haydn Quartets, a set of six string quartets he wrote during his first few years in Vienna and dedicated
String Quartet No. 14 (Mozart)
String_Quartet_No._14_(Mozart)
mandolin and a quartet, the latter in an arrangement, have been recorded and, in 2023, on the Brillant Classics label, four quartets with mandolin played
Giovanni_Hoffmann
Six string quartets by Joseph Haydn
String Quartets were written by Joseph Haydn in the summer and Autumn of 1781 for the Viennese publisher Artaria. This set of string quartets has several
String Quartets, Op. 33 (Haydn)
String_Quartets,_Op._33_(Haydn)
1826 and final completed work by Beethoven
Schuppanzigh Quartet premiered the work on 23 March 1828, one year after Beethoven's death. The Op. 135 quartet is the shortest of Beethoven's late quartets. Under
String Quartet No. 16 (Beethoven)
String_Quartet_No._16_(Beethoven)
Series of string quartets composed by Arnold Schoenberg
Schoenberg published four string quartets, distributed over his lifetime: String Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Opus 7 (1905), String Quartet No. 2 in F♯ minor
String_Quartets_(Schoenberg)
Emerson String Quartet - 6 String Quartets, 1988, retrieved 2026-04-18 "BARTÓK the six String Quartets Takács Quartet". Carner, Mosco (1957). Robertson
String_Quartet_No._3_(Bartók)
American poet (born 1974)
the National Book Award for Poetry. In 2020, Doomstead Days won the Four Quartets Prize and was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, Lambda
Brian_Teare
1985 soundtrack album by Kronos Quartet, Michael Riesman
recording engineer Kurt Munkacsi – producer information about Glass's String Quartets Archived 2014-10-28 at the Wayback Machine on philipglass.com "Philip Glass
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (soundtrack)
Mishima:_A_Life_in_Four_Chapters_(soundtrack)
String quartet
quartets, which won a MIDEM Cannes Award; Mozart's "Dissonance" and "Hoffmeister" quartets; and the complete Bartók quartets, for which the Quartet was
Belcea_Quartet
1800 string quartet by Ludwig van Beethoven
of six quartets was commissioned by and dedicated to the Bohemian aristocrat Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz. It is actually the second string quartet that Beethoven
String Quartet No. 1 (Beethoven)
String_Quartet_No._1_(Beethoven)
approximately 50 minutes, this quartet is the longest of Brahms's chamber works to perform and one of the longest piano quartets in the repertoire. He also
Piano_Quartet_No._2_(Brahms)
English actress (1927–2018)
includes readings of Colette, J. G. Ballard's Crash and T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. She made an album of cover songs including Robbie Williams's "Angels"
Fenella_Fielding
1809 composition by Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven Quartets. New York, W. W. Norton & Co., 1966, pp. 155–168 ISBN 0-393-00909-2 Marliave, Joseph de., trans. Hilda Andrews. Beethoven's Quartets New
String Quartet No. 10 (Beethoven)
String_Quartet_No._10_(Beethoven)
1824 string quartet by Franz Schubert
wrote to his brother Ferdinand of his earlier quartets, "it would be better if you stuck to other quartets than mine, for there is nothing in them..." There
String Quartet No. 14 (Schubert)
String_Quartet_No._14_(Schubert)
1919 essay by T. S. Eliot
with this aspect of Indian culture" (qtd. in The Composition of The Four Quartets). He does not account for a non-white and non-masculine tradition. As
Tradition and the Individual Talent
Tradition_and_the_Individual_Talent
Literary organization founded in 1910
and need." Awarded annually since 1930, with the exception of 1933. Four Quartets Prize – for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America
Poetry_Society_of_America
Six string quartets (1772–1773) by W. A. Mozart
The Milanese Quartets, K. 155–160, are a set of six string quartets composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in late 1772 and early 1773 when he was sixteen
Milanese_Quartets_(Mozart)
three of his "Rasumovsky" cycle of string quartets, and is a product of his "middle" period. It is in four movements: Allegro, 6 8, E minor Molto adagio
String Quartet No. 8 (Beethoven)
String_Quartet_No._8_(Beethoven)
1789 composition by W. A. Mozart
String Quartet No. 21 in D major, K. 575, was written in June 1789 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It is the first of the Prussian Quartets. There are four movements:
String Quartet No. 21 (Mozart)
String_Quartet_No._21_(Mozart)
international quartet champions by the year in which they won. Quartets can win only once, though up to two members may appear together in another quartet and compete
List of Barbershop Harmony Society quartet champions
List_of_Barbershop_Harmony_Society_quartet_champions
Church of England religious group
subsequently made it prominent by his poem Little Gidding, one of the Four Quartets. Little Gidding near Sawtry was a small village when it was the site
Little_Gidding_community
Former and Westernmost gate in London Wall
Ludgate appears in part III of Burnt Norton, the first of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. It is the last named of the seven "gloomy hills of London". Thornbury
Ludgate
1928 composition by Béla Bartók
The String Quartet No. 4 in C major by Béla Bartók was written from July to September 1928 in Budapest. It is one of six string quartets by Bartok. The
String_Quartet_No._4_(Bartók)
Album
Four Compositions (Quartet) 1995 is a live album by composer and saxophonist Anthony Braxton with a quartet, recorded at Wesleyan University in 1995 and
Four Compositions (Quartet) 1995
Four_Compositions_(Quartet)_1995
Type of written work
meditations are: Thomas Traherne's Centuries of Meditations T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets Meditations, a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman
Meditation_(writing)
Composition by Felix Mendelssohn
18, the Octet for Strings, Op. 20, and three piano quartets, besides several youthful string quartets which remained unpublished. A few months beforehand
String Quartet No. 2 (Mendelssohn)
String_Quartet_No._2_(Mendelssohn)
1783 composition by W. A. Mozart
The String Quartet No. 16 in E♭ major, K. 428/421b, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1783. This is the third of the Haydn Quartets, a set of
String Quartet No. 16 (Mozart)
String_Quartet_No._16_(Mozart)
1810 composition by Ludwig van Beethoven
shortest and most compact of all the Beethoven quartets, and shares a tonality (F) with the first and last quartets Beethoven published (Op. 18, no. 1, and Op
String Quartet No. 11 (Beethoven)
String_Quartet_No._11_(Beethoven)
1900 poem by Thomas Hardy
Thrush", Robert Frost's "Come In", and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and Four Quartets. C. J. P. Beatty posited that the thrush mentioned in The Hobbit was
The_Darkling_Thrush
1966 string quartet by Dmitri Shostakovich
series of four quartets to be dedicated to members of the Quartet. Vasily Shirinsky [ru] was the dedicatee of the Eleventh, the quartet's second violinist
String Quartet No. 11 (Shostakovich)
String_Quartet_No._11_(Shostakovich)
Composition for string quartet by Béla Bartók
at the Town Hall in New York City. The quartet represents a departure from his previous two quartets, with a four movement scheme rather than the five movements
String_Quartet_No._6_(Bartók)
Trindadian-American Poet
finalist for the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, the 2022 T.S. Eliot Four Quartets Prize, and the 2021 National Book Award for Poetry, as well as being
Desiree_C._Bailey
Historic county and district of Cambridgeshire, England
Gidding community, inspiration of the fourth poem in T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. Philip Nye (1595–1672), Independent theologian, became the incumbent
Huntingdonshire
Six string quartets by Joseph Haydn
String Quartets, Op. 76". Classical Notes. Retrieved 26 September 2025. Grave 2006, p. 305. "Review: Haydn String Quartets, Op. 76 (4–6)" (Takács Quartet, Decca
String Quartets, Op. 76 (Haydn)
String_Quartets,_Op._76_(Haydn)
Mozart's "Hoffmeister" quartet
This work, sandwiched between the six Haydn Quartets (1782–85) and the following three Prussian Quartets (1789–90), is often polyphonic in a way uncharacteristic
String Quartet No. 20 (Mozart)
String_Quartet_No._20_(Mozart)
1730-38 compositions by Georg Philipp Telemann
the quartets' popularity. The Nouveaux quatuors en six suites, as the title indicates, are all in suite form (in contrast to the first set of quartets).
Paris_quartets
String Quartets (2010). Avi-music AVI8553202 Mendelssohn Quartet Op. 13 - Berg Lyric Suite (2014). Avi-music AVI8553266 Schubert-Haydn: String Quartets (2017)
Tetzlaff_Quartet
American virtuoso string quartet
famous quartets Hindemith—Quartet no. 3 Opus 22 Jacobi—Quartet no. 3 Mendelssohn—Opus 12 Milhaud—Quartets no. 4, 7 & 15 Mozart—10 famous quartets Piston—Quartet
Paganini_Quartet
2020 poetry collection by Don Mee Choi
experiments." The book was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Four Quartets Prize in 2021. Choi, Don Mee (April 7, 2020). DMZ Colony. Wave Books
DMZ_Colony
Play by T. S. Eliot
Times Book Review, 29 November 1953 Cited and quoted in: T.S. Eliot: Four Quartets, A casebook edited by Bernard Bergonzi, Macmillan, London, 1969, page
Murder_in_the_Cathedral
Lobkowitz. Although it is numbered third, it was the first quartet Beethoven composed. It consists of four movements: Allegro (D major) Andante con moto (B♭ major)
String Quartet No. 3 (Beethoven)
String_Quartet_No._3_(Beethoven)
American jazz quintet
in various combinations. The quartet, organized in 1917, performed under the name The Shannon Four or The Shannon Quartet before changing their name to
The_Revelers
1826 composition designated Op. 130
used four bars of this movement as the frontispiece of his study of Beethoven's quartets. The Cavatina (performed by the Budapest String Quartet) is the
String Quartet No. 13 (Beethoven)
String_Quartet_No._13_(Beethoven)
1948 novel by Agatha Christie
novel is taken from Section V of Little Gidding from T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. The full line, as quoted in the epigraph to the novel, is: "The moment
The_Rose_and_the_Yew_Tree
English rock band
MSCD529; 2003) includes the following Remo Four tracks: Perfidia (recorded live, 1961) - as the Remo Quartet Sleepwalk (recorded live, 1962) Unearthed
The_Remo_Four
Poetry written in Modernist tradition
world. Even when they reverted to the personal, like T. S. Eliot in the Four Quartets and Ezra Pound in The Cantos, they distilled the personal into a poetic
Modernist_poetry
1825 composition by Ludwig van Beethoven
van Beethoven completed his String Quartet No. 12 in E♭ major, Op. 127, in 1825. It is the first of his late quartets. Commissioned by Nicolas Galitzin
String Quartet No. 12 (Beethoven)
String_Quartet_No._12_(Beethoven)
Type of vocal harmony
online. Present at the Creation: Barbershop Quartets from NPR Barbershop Quartets on 78rpms: How Quartet Harmonizing Became Known as Barbershop Archived
Barbershop_music
Biblical figures
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are figures in the Book of Revelation in the New Testament of the Bible, a piece of apocalypse literature attributed
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse
FOUR QUARTETS
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Girl/Female
Indian, Telugu
Four Types
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Four Faced; A Name for Varuna
Boy/Male
African, Arabic, Australian, Lebanese
Light
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Light
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Princess
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Telugu, Traditional
Four Armed
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Four Legged; Another Name for Tortoise
Boy/Male
Hindu
Four-armed
Boy/Male
Scottish
From the water.
Boy/Male
Bengali, French, Hebrew, Indian
Fair; Red; White
Boy/Male
African
Rock.
Girl/Female
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Tears of Eyes
Boy/Male
Tamil
Chaturbahu | சதà¯à®°à¯à®ªà®¾à®¹à¯Â
Four armed
Chaturbahu | சதà¯à®°à¯à®ªà®¾à®¹à¯Â
Boy/Male
Australian, Japanese
Four Seasons
Boy/Male
Biblical
Four.
Male
Icelandic
Icelandic form of Old Norse Friðþjófr, FRIÃÞJÓFUR means "peace-thief."
Boy/Male
Tamil
Chaturbahave | சதà¯à®°à¯à®ªà®¹à®¾à®µà¯‡
Four-armed
Chaturbahave | சதà¯à®°à¯à®ªà®¹à®¾à®µà¯‡
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Traditional
Four Faced; Another Name for Brahma
Boy/Male
Native American
Four bears.
Biblical
four
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Boy/Male
Italian Latin
noble.
Girl/Female
Hindu
Bodiless
Boy/Male
Latin American English German
Greatest.
Female
Norse
Old Norse name composed of the elements bjorg "help, salvation" and hildr "battle, fight," hence "helpful battle maid." In mythology, this is the name of the goddess of the evening mist who slays the sun every night.Â
Girl/Female
English
Derived from Victoria, meaning triumphant.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
God of Gods
Female
English
English variant form of Arabic Aisha, YIESHA means "alive."Â
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Dow, a variant of Daw.English : metronymic from a medieval female personal name (see Duce).
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Tamil
Lord Murugan
Girl/Female
Tamil
Humble, Enchantress (Wife of Lakshman (Lord Rama's brother))
FOUR QUARTETS
FOUR QUARTETS
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superl.
Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply.
n.
The sum of four units; four units or objects.
n.
A vehicle having four wheels.
superl.
Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.
v. t.
To macerate, and render fit for plaster or mortar; as, to sour lime for business purposes.
n.
See Foul ball, under Foul, a.
superl.
Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh.
a.
Having four corners or angles.
a.
Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve.
n.
A naval vessel carrying seventy-four guns.
v. t.
To sprinkle with flour.
n.
Strips of dressed skins with fur, used on garments for warmth or for ornament.
n.
Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour.
superl.
Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.
v. t.
To grind and bolt; to convert into flour; as, to flour wheat.
a.
Having four wheels.
n.
A symbol representing four units, as 4 or iv.
superl.
Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water.
a.
Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.
n.
Four things of the same kind, esp. four horses; as, a chariot and four.