QUARTERS, with respect to the parts of a horse, is used in various senses: thus the shoulders and fore-legs are called the fore-quarters, and the hips and hinder-legs the hind-quarters. The quarters of a horse's foot are the sides of the coffin, comprehending between the toe and the heel: the inner quarters are those opposite to one another, facing from one foot to the other; and these are always weaker than the outside quarters, which lie on the external sides of the coffin. False quarters, are a cleft in the horn of a horse's hoof, extending from the coronet to the shoe. A horse is said to be quarter-cast, when for any disorder in the coffin we are obliged to cut one of the quarters of the hoof.