Quay – Quotient

Quay

QUAY, noun ke.

A key; a mole or wharf, constructed in harbors for securing vessels and receiving goods unladen or to be shipped on board.

QUAY, verb transitive To furnish with quays.

Queach

QUEACH, noun A thick bushy plot. obsolete

QUEACH, verb intransitive To stir; to move. obsolete [See Quick.]

Queachy

QUE'ACHY, adjective [from queach.]

1. Shaking; moving, yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy ground.

The queachy fens.

Godwin's queachy sands.

[This word is still in use in New England, and if the word is from the root of quick, we recognize the application of it in quicksand.]

2. Thick; bushy. [Not in use.]

Quean

QUEAN, noun

A worthless woman; a slut; a strumpet. [Not in common use.]

Queasiness

QUE'ASINESS, noun s as z. [from queasy.] Nausea; qualmishness; inclination to vomit.

Queasy

QUE'ASY, adjective s as z.

1. Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit.

2. Fastidious; squeamish; delicate.

3. Causing nausea; as a queasy question.

Queck

QUECK, verb intransitive

To shrink; to flinch. obsolete

Queen

QUEEN, noun

1. The consort of a king; a queen consort.

2. A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a queen-regent; as Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scotland.

3. The sovereign of a swarm of bees, or the female of the hive.

A hive of bees cannot subsist without a queen

QUEEN of the meadows, meadow sweet, a plant of the genus Spiraea.

QUEEN, verb intransitive To play the queen; to act the part or character of a queen

Queen-Apple

QUEE'N-APPLE, noun A kind of apple, so called.

Queen-Dowager

QUEEN-DOW'AGER, noun The window of a king.

Queen-Gold

QUEE'N-GOLD, noun A royal duty or revenue belonging to every queen of England during her marriage to the king.

Queening

QUEE'NING, noun An apple.

Queenlike

QUEE'NLIKE, adjective Resembling a queen.

Queenly

QUEE'NLY, adjective Like a queen; becoming a queen; suitable to a queen.

Queer

QUEER, adjective

Odd; singular; hence, whimsical.

Queerly

QUEE'RLY, adverb In an odd or singular manner.

Queerness

QUEE'RNESS, noun Oddity; singularity; particularity. [A familiar, not an elegant word.]

Queest

QUEEST, noun A ring dove, a species of pigeon.

Queint

QUEINT, preterit tense and participle passive of quench.

Quell

QUELL, verb transitive

1. To crush; to subdue; to cause to cease; as, to quell an insurrection or sedition.

2. To quiet; to allay; to reduce to peace; as, to quell the tumult of the soul.

3. To subdue; to reduce.

This quell'd her pride.

QUELL, verb intransitive To die; to abate.

QUELL, noun Murder. [Not in use.]

Quelled

QUELL'ED, participle passive Crushed; subdued; quieted.

Queller

QUELL'ER, noun One that crushes or subdues.

Quelling

QUELL'ING, participle present tense Crushing; subduing; reducing to peace.

Quelque-Chose

QUELQUE-CHOSE, noun keck-shows.

A trifle; a kickshaw.

Queme

QUEME, verb transitive To please. obsolete

Quench

QUENCH, verb transitive

1. To extinguish; to put out; as, to quench flame.

2. To still; to quiet; to repress; as, to quench a passion or emotion.

3. To allay or extinguish; as, to quench thirst.

4. To destroy.

5. To check; to stifle; as, to quench the Spirit.

1 Thessalonians 5:19.

QUENCH, verb intransitive To cool; to become cool.

Dost thou think, in time she will not quench? [Not in use.]

Quenchable

QUENCH'ABLE, adjective That may be quenched or extinguished.

Quenched

QUENCH'ED, participle passive Extinguished; allayed; repressed.

Quencher

QUENCH'ER, noun He or that which extinguishes.

Quenching

QUENCH'ING, participle present tense Extinguishing; quieting; stifling; repressing.

Quenchless

QUENCH'LESS, adjective That cannot be quenched or repressed; inextinguishable; as quenchless fire or fury.

Quercitron

QUER'CITRON, noun [Latin quercus, an oak.] The bark of the yellow oak, used in dyeing.

Querele

QUER'ELE, noun [Latin querla.] A complaint to a court. [Not in use.]

Querent

QUE'RENT, noun [Latin querens, queror, to complain.]

The complainant; the plaintiff. [Not in use.]

QUE'RENT, noun [Latin quaerens, quaero, to inquire.]

To inquirer. [Not much used.]

Querimonious

QUERIMO'NIOUS, adjective [Latin querimonia, complaint, from queror.]

Complaining; querulous; apt to complain.

Querimoniously

QUERIMO'NIOUSLY, adverb With complaint; querulously.

Querimoniousness

QUERIMO'NIOUSNESS, noun Disposition to complain; a complaining temper.

Querist

QUE'RIST, noun [from Latin quaero, to inquire.] One who inquires or asks questions.

Querk

QUERK. [See Quirk.]

Querkened

QUERK'ENED, adjective Choked. [Illegitimate and obsolete.]

Querl

QUERL, verb transitive To twirl; to turn or wind round; to coil; as, to querl a cord, thread or rope. [This is a legitimate English word, in common use in New England. It may be a dialectical variation of whirl and twirl.]

Quern

QUERN, noun

A hand-mill for grinding grain; a mill, the stone of which was turned by hand, used before the invention of windmills and watermills.

Querpo

QUERP'O, noun [Latin corpus.]

A waistcoat or garment close to the body.

Querquedule

QUER'QUEDULE, noun [Latin querquedula.] An aquatic fowl, a species of teal of the genus Anas.

Querry

QUER'RY, noun A groom. [See Equerry.]

Querulous

QUER'ULOUS, adjective [Latin querulus, from queror, to complain. See Quarrel.]

1. Complaining or habitually complaining; disposed to murmur; as a querulous man or people.

2. Expressing complaint; as a querulous tone of voice.

Querulously

QUER'ULOUSLY, adverb In a complaining manner.

Querulousness

QUER'ULOUSNESS, noun Disposition to complain, or the habit or practice of murmuring.

Query

QUE'RY, noun [from Latin quaere, imperative of quaero; perhaps Heb. to seek, to search, to inquire.]

A question; an inquiry to be answered or resolved.

I will conclude by proposing some queries.

QUE'RY, verb intransitive To ask a question or questions.

Three Cambridge sophs each prompt to query answer and debate.

QUE'RY, verb transitive

1. To seek; to inquire; as, query the sum or amount; query the motive or the fact.

2. To examine by questions.

3. To doubt of.

Quest

QUEST, noun [Latin quaero, quaestus. As the letter r is rarely changed into s, perhaps the Latin quaesivi, quaestus, may be from the root of quaeso.]

1. The act of seeking; search; as, to rove in quest of game; to go in quest of a lost child; in quest of property, etc.

2. Inquest; a jury. [Not used.]

3. Searchers, collectively. [Not used.]

4. Inquiry; examination. [Not used.]

5. Request; desire; solicitation.

Gad not abroad at every quest and call of an untrain'd hope or passion.

QUEST, verb intransitive To go in search. [Not used.]

QUEST, verb transitive To search or seek for.

Questant

QUEST'ANT, noun [supra.] A seeker. [Not used.]

Question

QUESTION, noun ques'chun. [Latin quaestio. See Quest.]

1. The act of asking; an interrogatory; as, to examine by question and answer.

2. That which is asked; something proposed which is to be solved by answer. What is the question?

3. Inquiry; disquisition; discussion.

It is to be put to question whether it is lawful for christian princes to make an invasive war, simply for the propagation of the faith.

4. Dispute or subject of debate.

There arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews, about purifying. John 3:25.

5. Doubt; controversy; dispute. The story is true beyond all question

This does not bring their truth in question

6. Trial; examination; judicial trial or inquiry.

Of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question Acts 23:6. Acts 24:21.

7. Examination by torture.

8. Endeavor; effort; act of seeking. [Not in use.]

9. In logic, a proposition stated by way of interrogation.

In question in debate; in the course of examination or discussion; as, the matter or point in question

QUES'TION, verb intransitive

1. To ask a question or questions; to inquire by interrogatory or proposition to be answered.

He that questioneth much, shall learn much.

2. To debate by interrogatories.

QUES'TION, verb transitive

1. To inquire of by asking questions; to examine by interrogatories; as, to question a witness.

2. To doubt of; to be uncertain of.

And most we question what we most desire.

3. To have no confidence in; to treat as doubtful. If a man is frustrated in his designs, his prudence is questions.

Questionable

QUES'TIONABLE, adjective

1. That may be questioned; doubtful; uncertain; disputable. the deed is of questionable authority.

It is questionable whether Galen ever saw the dissection of a human body.

2. Suspicious; liable to be doubted or disputed; liable to suspicion. His veracity is questionable

Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, that I will speak to thee.

Questionableness

QUES'TIONABLENESS, noun The quality or state of being doubtful, questionable or suspicious.

Questionary

QUES'TIONARY, adjective Inquiring; asking questions; as questionary epistles.

Questioned

QUES'TIONED, participle passive

1. Interrogated; examined by questions.

2. Doubted; disputed.

Questioner

QUES'TIONER, noun One that asks questions; an inquirer.

Questioning

QUES'TIONING, participle present tense Interrogating; calling in question; doubting.

Questionist

QUES'TIONIST, noun A questioner; an inquirer.

Questionless

QUES'TIONLESS, adverb Beyond a question or doubt; doubtless; certainly.

Questman

QUEST'MAN

QUEST'MONGER, noun A starter of lawsuits or prosecutions. [Not used.]

Questmonger

QUEST'MONGER, n. A starter of lawsuits or prosecutions. [Not used.]

Questor

QUES'TOR, noun [Latin quaestor. See Quest and Query.]

In Roman antiquity, an officer who had the management of the public treasure; the receiver of taxes, tribute, etc.

Questorship

QUES'TORSHIP, noun

1. The office of a questor or Roman treasurer.

2. The term of a questor's office.

Questrist

QUES'TRIST, noun A seeker; a pursuer. [Not in use.]

Questuary

QUES'TUARY, adjective Studious of profit.

QUES'TUARY, noun One employed to collect profits.

Queue

QUEUE. [See Cue.]

Quib

QUIB, noun

A sarcasm; a bitter taunt; a quip; a gibe.

Quibble

QUIB'BLE, noun

1. A start or turn from the point in question, or from plain truth; an evasion; a cavil; a pretense; as, to answer a sound argument by quibbles.

Quirks and quibbles have no place in the search after truth.

2. A pun; a low conceit.

QUIB'BLE, verb intransitive

1. To evade the point in question, or plain truth, by artifice, play upon words, caviling or any conceit; to trifle in argument or discourse.

2. To pun.

Quibbler

QUIB'BLER, noun

1. One who evades plain truth by trifling artifices, play upon words, or cavils.

2. A punster.

Quick

QUICK, verb intransitive

To stir; to move. [Not in use.]

QUICK, adjective [If q is a dialectical prefix, as I suppose, this word coincides with the Latin vigeo, vegeo, and vig, veg, radical, coincide with wag.]

1. Primarily, alive; living; opposed to dead or unanimated; as quick flesh. Leviticus 13:10.

The Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead. 2 Timothy 4:1.

[In this sense, the word is obsolete, except in some compounds or in particular phrases.]

2. Swift; hasty; done with celerity; as quick dispatch.

3. Speedy; done or occurring in a short time; as a quick return of profits.

Oft he to her his charge of quick return repeated.

4. Active; brisk; nimble; prompt ready. He is remarkably quick in his motions. He is a man of quick parts.

5. Moving with rapidity or celerity; as quick time in music.

QUICK with child, pregnant with a living child.

QUICK, adverb

1. Nimbly; with celerity; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; be quick

If we consider how very quick the actions of the mind are performed.

2. Soon; in a short time; without delay. Go, and return quick

QUICK, noun

1. A living animal. obsolete

2. The living flesh; sensible parts; as penetrating to the quick; stung to the quick; cut to the quick

3. Living shrubs or trees; as a ditch or bank set with quick

QUICK, verb transitive To revive; to make alive. obsolete

QUICK, verb intransitive To become alive. obsolete

Quick-Grass

QUICK-GRASS. [See Quitch-grass.]

Quick-Match

QUICK-MATCH, noun [See Match.] A combustible preparation formed of cotton strands dipped in a boiling composition of white vinegar, saltpeter and mealed powder; used by artillerymen.

Quick-Sighted

QUICK'-SIGHTED, adjective Having quick sight or acute discernment; quick to see or discern.

Quicken

QUICKEN, verb transitive quik'n.

1. Primarily, to make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state. Romans 4:17.

Hence flocks and herds, and men and beasts and fowls, with breath are quicken'd and attract their souls.

2. To make alive in a spiritual sense; to communicate a principle of grace to.

You hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins. Ephesians 2:1.

3. To hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken motion, speed or flight.

4. To sharpen; to give keener perception to; to stimulate; to incite; as, to quicken the appetite or taste; to quicken desires.

5. To revive; to cheer; to reinvigorate; to refresh by new supplies of comfort or grace. Psalms 119:25.

QUICKEN, verb intransitive quik'n.

1. To become alive.

The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.

2. To move with rapidity or activity.

And keener lightning quickens in her eye.

Quicken-Tree

QUICK'EN-TREE, noun A tree, the wild sorb, a species of wild ash.

the Sorbus aucuparia, or mountain ash, a species of service tree.

Quickened

QUICK'ENED, participle passive

1. Made alive; revived; vivified; reinvigorated.

2. Accelerated; hastened.

3. Stimulated; incited.

Quickener

QUICK'ENER, noun

1. One who revives, vivifies, or communicates life.

2. That which reinvigorates.

3. That which accelerates motion or increases activity.

Quickening

QUICK'ENING, participle present tense Giving life; accelerating; inciting.

QUICK'-EYED, adjective Having acute sight; of keen and ready perception.

Quicklime

QUICK'LIME, noun [See Lime.] Any calcarious substance deprived of its fixed or carbonic air, or an earthy substance calcined; as chalk, limestone, oyster-shells, etc.; unslaked lime. Calcarious stones and shells are reduced to quicklime by being subjected for a considerable time to intense heat, which expels the carbonic and aqeuous matter.

Quickly

QUICK'LY, adverb

1. Speedily; with haste or celerity.

2. Soon; without delay.

Quickness

QUICK'NESS, noun

1. Speed; velocity; celerity; rapidity; as the quickness of motion.

2. Activity; briskness; promptness, as the quickness of the imagination or wit.

3. Acuteness of perception; keep sensibility; as quickness of sensation.

4. Sharpness; pungency.

Quicksand

QUICK'SAND, noun

1. Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure, loose sand abounding with water.

2. Unsolid ground.

Quickscented

QUICK'SCENTED, adjective Having an acute perception by the nose; of an acute smell.

Quickset

QUICK'SET, noun A living plant set to grow, particularly for a hedge.

QUICK'SET, verb transitive To plant with living shrubs or trees for a hedge or fence; as, to quickset a ditch.

Quicksightedness

QUICK'SIGHTEDNESS, noun Quickness of sight or discernment; readiness to see or discern.

Quicksilver

QUICK'SILVER, noun [that is, living silver, argentum vivum, so called from its fluidity.]

Mercury, a metal found both native and in the state of ore, in mines, in various parts of the world, and so remarkably fusible as to be congealable only with the intense cold indicated by 39 degrees or 40 degrees below zero, on Fahrenheit's thermometer. It is the heaviest of the metals, next to platina and gold. It is used in various arts and in medicine.

Quicksilvered

QUICK'SILVERED, adjective Overlaid with quicksilver.

QUICK'-WITTED, adjective Having ready wit.

Quid

QUID, noun A vulgar pronunciation of cud; as a quid of tobacco.

Quidam

QUI'DAM, noun [Latin] Somebody. [Not in use.]

Quiddany

QUID'DANY, noun [Latin cydonium.]

Marmalade; a confection of quinces prepared with sugar.

Quiddative

QUID'DATIVE, adjective Constituting the essence of a thing.

Quiddit

QUID'DIT, noun [Latin quidlibet.] A subtilty; an equivocation. [Not in use.]

Quiddity

QUID'DITY, noun [Latin quid, what.]

1. A barbarous term used in school philosophy for essence, that unknown and undefinable something which constitutes its peculiar nature, or answers the question, quidest? The essence of a thing constitutes it tale quid, such a thing as it is, and not another.

2. A trifling nicety; a cavil; a captious question.

Quidnunc

QUID'NUNC, noun [Latin what now.] One who is curious to know every thing that passes; one who knows or pretends to know all occurrences.

Quid pro quo, [Latin] in law, an equivalent; something given or done for another thing; mutual consideration and performance.

Quiesce

QUIESCE, verb intransitive quiess'. [Latin quiesco.] To be silent, as a letter; to have no sound.

Quiescence

QUIES'CENCE,

QUIES'CENCY, noun [Latin quiescens, quiesco. See quiet.]

1. Rest; repose; state of a thing without motion.

2. Rest of the mind; a state of the mind free from agitation or emotion.

3. Silence; the having no sound; as of a letter.

Quiescency

QUIES'CENCY, n. [L. quiescens, quiesco. See quiet.] 1. Rest; repose; state of a thing without motion.2. Rest of the mind; a state of the mind free from agitation or emotion.3. Silence; the having no sound; as of a letter.

Quiescent

QUIES'CENT, adjective [Latin quiescens.]

1. Resting being in a state of repose; still: not moving; as a quiescent body or fluid.

2. Not ruffled with passion; unagitated; as the mind.

3. Silent; not sounded; having no sound; as a quiescent letter. Sow mow, with w quiescent; say, day, with y quiescent

QUIES'CENT, noun A silent letter.

Quiet

QUI'ET, adjective [Latin quietus.]

1. Still; being in a state of rest; now moving. Judges 16:2.

2. Still; free from alarm or disturbance; unmolested; as a quiet life.

In his days the land was quiet ten years. 2 Chronicles 14:1.

3. Peaceable; not turbulent; not giving offense; not exciting controversy, disorder or trouble; mild; meek; contented.

The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. 1 Peter 3:4.

1 Thessalonians 4:11.

4. Calm; not agitated by wind; as a quiet sea or atmosphere.

5. Smooth; unruffled.

6. Undisturbed; unmolested; as the quiet possession or enjoyment of an estate.

7. Not crying; not restless; as a quiet child.

QUI'ET, noun [Latin quies.]

1. Rest; repose; stillness; the state of a thing not in motion.

2. Tranquility; freedom from disturbance or alarm; civil or political repose. Our country enjoys quiet

3. Peace; security. Judges 18:7.

QUI'ET, verb transitive

1. To stop motion; to still; to reduce to a state of rest; as, to quiet corporeal motion.

2. To calm; to appease; to pacify; to lull; to tranquilize; as, to quiet the soul when agitated; to quiet the passions; to quiet the clamors of a nation; to quiet the disorders of a city or town.

3. To allay; to suppress; as, to quiet pain or grief.

Quieted

QUI'ETED, participle passive Made still; calmed; pacified.

Quieter

QUI'ETER, noun The person or thing that quiets.

Quieting

QUI'ETING, participle present tense Reducing to rest or stillness; appeasing; tranquilizing.

Quietism

QUI'ETISM, noun Peace or tranquility of mind; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction. In history, quietism is the system of the quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the internal rest or recollection of the mind, employed in contemplating God and submitting to his will.

Quietist

QUI'ETIST, noun One of a sect of mystics, originated by Molino, a Spanish priest, who maintained the principles of quietism.

Quietly

QUI'ETLY, adverb

1. In a quiet state; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly

2. Without tumult, alarm, dispute or disturbance; peaceably; as, to live quietly

3. Calmly; without agitation or violent emotion; patiently. submit quietly to unavoidable evils.

Quietness

QUI'ETNESS, noun

1. A state of rest; stillness.

2. Calm; tranquility; as the quietness of the ocean or atmosphere.

3. Freedom from agitation or emotion; calmness; coolness; as the quietness of the mind.

4. Freedom from disturbance, disorder or commotion; peace; tranquility; as the quietness of a city or state.

Quietsome

QUI'ETSOME, adjective Calm; still; undisturbed. [Not in use.]

Quietude

QUI'ETUDE, noun Rest; repose; quiet; tranquility.

Quietus

QUIE'TUS, noun [Latin] Rest; repose; death; hence, a final discharge or acquittance; that which silences claims.

Quill

QUILL, noun [Latin calamus.]

1. The large strong feather of a goose or other large fowl; used much for writing pens. Hence,

2. The instrument of writing; as the proper subject of his quill

3. The spine or prickle of a porcupine.

4. A piece of small reed or other hollow plant, or which weavers wind the thread which forms the woof of cloth.

5. The instrument with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.

To carry a good quill to write well.

QUILL, verb transitive To plait, or to form with small ridges like quills or reeds; as a woolen stuff quilled.

[In the United States, this word is generally, if not universally, pronounced twilled.]

Quillet

QUIL'LET, noun [Latin quidlibet, what you please.]

Subtilty; nicety; fraudulent distinction; petty cant. [Not much used.]

Quilt

QUILT, noun [Latin culcita.]

A cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton or other substance between two cloths and sewing them together; as beds covered with magnificent quilts.

QUILT, verb transitive

1. To stitch together two pieces of cloth with some soft and warm substance between them; as a quilted bedcover; a quilted coat.

2. To sew in the manner of a quilt

Quilted

QUILT'ED, participle passive Stitched together, as two pieces of cloth, with a soft substance between them.

Quilting

QUILT'ING, participle present tense Stitching together, as two cloths, with some soft substance between them.

QUILT'ING, noun

1. The act of forming a quilt.

2. In New England, the act of quilting by a collection of females who bestow their labor gratuitously to aid a female friend, and conclude with an entertainment.

Quinary

QUI'NARY, adjective [Latin quinarius, from quinque, five.] Consisting of five.] Consisting of five; as a quinary number.

Quinate

QUI'NATE, adjective [from Latin quinque.] In botany, a quinate leaf is a sort of digitate leaf having five leaflets on a petiole.

Quince

QUINCE, noun quins. [Latin cydonius.]

The fruit of the Pyrus cydonia, so named from Cydonia, a town of Crete, famous for abounding with this fruit. One species of this fruit is of an oblong shape, from which probably it has its French name.

Quince-Tree

QUINCE-TREE, noun The tree which produces the quince.

Quinch

QUINCH, verb intransitive [probably a vulgar pronunciation of wince or winch.] To stir, wince or flounce. [Not in use.]

Quincuncial

QUINCUN'CIAL, adjective [from Latin quincunx.] Having the form of a quincunx.

Quincunx

QUIN'CUNX, noun [Latin composed of quinque, five, and uncia, ounce.]

In gardening, the quincunx order is a plantation of trees disposed in a square, consisting of five trees, one at each corner and a fifth in the middle, thus : .: ; which order repeated indefinitely, forms a regular grove or wood, which viewed by an angle of the square or parallelogram, presents equal or parallel alleys.

Quindecagon

QUINDEC'AGON, noun [Latin quinque, five Gr. ten, and angle.]

In geometry, a plain figure with fifteen sides and fifteen angles.

Quindecemvir

QUINDEC'EMVIR, noun [Latin quinque, five, decem, ten, and vir, man.]

In Roman history, one of a collection or body of fifteen magistrates, whose business was to preside over the sacrifices.

Quindecemvirate

QUINDECEM'VIRATE, noun The body of fifteen magistrates, of their office.

Quinia

QUIN'IA,

QUIN'INE, noun In pharmacy, a substance prepared from yellow bark possessing in a concentrated form, the tonic virtues of the bark, and capable of forming salts with acids. One of these, the sulphate of quinine, is much employed in intermittent fevers and other diseases, where powerful tonics are required.

Quinquagesima

QUINQUAGES'IMA, noun [Latin fifty.] quinquagesima Sunday, so called as being about the fiftieth day before Easter; Shrove Sunday.

Quinquangular

QUINQUAN'GULAR, adjective [Latin quinque, five, and angulus, angle.]

Having five angles or corners.

Quinquarticular

QUINQUARTIC'ULAR, adjective [Latin quinque, five, and articulus, article.]

Consisting of five articles. [Little used.]

Quinquecapsular

QUINQUECAP'SULAR, adjective [Latin quinque, five, and capsula, a little chest.]

In botany, having five capsules to a flower; as a quinquecapsular pericarp.

Quinquedentate

QUINQUEDEN'TATE, adjective [Latin quinque, five, and dentatus, toothed; dens, tooth.] In botany, five-toothed.

Quinquefarious

QUINQUEFA'RIOUS, adjective [Latin quinque, five. Eng. to fare, or from the root of vary.] In botany, opening into five parts.

Quinquefid

QUIN'QUEFID, adjective [Latin quinque, five, and findo, to split.]

In botany, five-cleft; cut into five segments with linear sinuses and straight margins; as a leaf.

Quinquefoliated

QUINQUEFO'LIATED, adjective [Latin quinque, five, and folium, leaf.] having five leaves.

Quinqueliteral

QUINQUELIT'ERAL, adjective [Latin quinque, five, and litera, letter.]

Consisting of five letters.

Quinquelobate

QUIN'QUELOBATE,

QUIN'QUELOBED, adjective [Latin quinque, five, and lobus, lobe.]

Five-lobed; divided to the middle into five distinct parts with convex margins.

Quinquelobed

QUIN'QUELOBED, a. [L. quinque, five, and lobus, lobe.] Five-lobed; divided to the middle into five distinct parts with convex margins.

Quinquelocular

QUINQUELOC'ULAR, adjective [Latin quinque, five, and loculus, a cell.]

Five-celled; having five cells; as a pericarp.

Quinquennial

QUINQUEN'NIAL, adjective [Latin quinquennalis, quinquennis; quinque, five, and annus, year.] Occurring once in five years, or lasting five years.

Quinquepartite

QUINQUEP'ARTITE, adjective [Latin quinque, five, and partitus, divided.]

1. Divided into five parts almost to the base.

2. Consisting of two parts.

Quinquereme

QUIN'QUEREME, noun [Latin quinque, five, and remus, oar.]

A galley having five seats or rows of oars.

Quinquevalve

QUIN'QUEVALVE,

QUINQUEVALV'ULAR, adjective [Latin quinque, five, and valve, valves.] Having five valves, as a pericarp.

Quinquevalvular

QUINQUEVALV'ULAR, a. [L. quinque, five, and valve, valves.] Having five valves, as a pericarp.

Quinquevir

QUIN'QUEVIR, noun [Latin quinque, five, and vir, man.] One of an order of five priests in Rome.

Quinsy

QUIN'SY, noun s as z.

1. An inflammation of the throat; a species of angina which renders respiration difficult, or intercepts it.

2. An inflammation of the fauces, particularly of the tonsils.

Quint

QUINT, noun [from Latin quintus, fifth.] A set of sequence of five; as in piquet.

Quintain

QUINT'AIN, noun A post with a turning top.

Quintal

QUINT'AL, noun [Latin centum, a hundred.]

A hundred pounds in weight; or a weight of that number of pounds; sometimes written and pronounced kentle.

Quintessence

QUINTES'SENCE, noun [Latin quinta essentia, fifth essence.]

1. In alchimy, the fifth or last and highest essence of power in a natural body. Hence,

2. An extract from any thing, containing its virtues or most essential part in a small quantity.

Let there be light, said God; and forthwith light etherial, first of things, quintessence pure, sprung from the deep.

3. In chimistry, a preparation consisting of the essential oil of a vegetable substance, mixed and incorporated with spirit of wine.

4. The pure essential part of a thing.

[I have followed Bailey and Ash and our general usage in the accentuation of this word. Jameson has done the same. The accent on the first syllable is very unnatural.]

Quintessential

QUINTESSEN'TIAL, adjective Consisting of quintessence.

Quintile

QUINT'ILE, noun [Latin quintus, fifth.] The aspect of planets when distant from each other the fifth part of the zodiac, or 72 degrees.

Quintin

QUINT'IN, noun

An upright post on the top of which turned a cross piece, on one end of which was fixed a broad board, and on the other a sand bag. The play was to tilt on ride against the broad end with a lance, and pass without being struck by the sand bag behind.

Quintuple

QUINT'UPLE, adjective [Latin quintuplus, fivefold; quintus and plico.]

Fivefold; containing five times the amount.

Quip

QUIP, noun

A smart sarcastic turn; a taunt; a severe retort.

QUIP, verb transitive To taunt; to treat with a sarcastic retort.

QUIP, verb intransitive To scoff.

Quire

QUIRE, noun [Latin chorus; Gr.]

1. A body of singers; a chorus. [See Chorus and Choir.]

2. The part of a church where the service is sung.

QUIRE, noun

A collection of paper consisting of twenty four sheets, each having a single fold.

QUIRE, verb intransitive To sing in concert or chorus.

Quirister

QUIR'ISTER, noun One that sings in concert; more generally, the leader of a quire, particularly in divine service; a chorister. But in America, this word is little used and vulgar. The word used is chorister.

Quiritation

QUIRITA'TION, noun [Latin quirtatio, from quirito, from queror.] A crying for help. [Not used.]

Quirk

QUIRK, noun quurk.

1. Literally, a turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful turn for evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as the quirks of a pettifogger.

2. A fit or turn; a short paroxysm; as a quirk of joy or grief.

3. A smart taunt or retort.

I may chance to have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me.

4. A slight conceit or quibble.

5. A flight of fancy. [Not in use.]

6. An irregular air; as light quirks of music.

7. In building, a piece of ground taken out of any regular ground-plot or floor, as to mark a court or yard, etc.

Quirkish

QUIRK'ISH, adjective

1. Consisting of quirks, turns, quibbles or artful evasions.

2. Resembling a quirk.

Quirpele

QUIRP'ELE, noun The Indian ferret, an animal of the weasel kind.

Quit

QUIT, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive quit or quitted. [Latin cedo. The sense of quit is to leave, to withdraw from; but the primary sense of the root must have been to move or to send; for to requite is to send back.]

1. To leave; to depart from, either temporarily or forever. It does not necessarily include the idea of abandoning, without a qualifying word. A man quits his house for an hour, or for a month. He quits his native country on a voyage or he quits it forever; he quits an employment with the intention of resuming it.

2. To free; to clear; to liberate; to discharge from.

To quit you of this fear, you have already looked death in the face. [Nearly obsolete.]

3. To carry through; to do or perform something to the end, so that nothing remains; to discharge or perform completely.

Never a worthy prince a day did quit with greater hazard and with more renown.

4. To quit one's self, reciprocally, to clear one's self of incumbent duties by full performance.

Samson hath quit himself like Samson.

In this sense, acquit is generally used.

5. To repay; to requite.

- Enkindle all the sparks of nature to quit this horrid act.

In this sense, quit is now rarely used. We use requite.

6. To vacate obligation; to release; to free from

Dangers of law, actions, decrees, judgments against us quitted.

7. To pay; to discharge; hence, to free from; as, to quit the debt of gratitude.

8. To set free; to release; to absolve; to acquit.

Guiltless I quit guilty I set them free. In this sense, acquit is now used.

9. To leave; to give up; to resign; to relinquish; as, to quit an office.

10. To pay.

Before that judge that quits each soul his hire. [Not used.]

11. To forsake; to abandon.

Such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth for appearance.

To quit cost, to pay; to free from by an equivalent; to reimburse; as, the cultivation of barren land will not always quit cost.

To quit scores, to make even; to clear mutually from demands by mutual equivalents given. We will quit scores [marks of charges] before we part.

Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in her noble fruits?

QUIT, adjective Free; clear; discharged from; absolved.

The owner of the ox shall be quit Exodus 21:19. [This word, though primarily a participle, and never placed before its noun, has properly the sense of an adjective.]

Qui tam, [Latin] A qui tam action, in law, is a popular action, in which a man prosecutes an offender for the king or state, as well as for himself.

Quitch-Grass

QUITCH'-GRASS, noun [properly quick-grass, probably from its vigorous growth, or the difficulty of eradicating it.]

Dog-grass; a species of grass which roots deeply and is not easily killed.

Quitclaim

QUIT'CLAIM, verb transitive [quit and claim.] To release a claim by deed without covenants of warranty; to convey to another who hath some right in lands or tenements, all one's right, title and interest in the estate, by relinquishing all claim to them. The words used in the instrument are, 'A hath remised, released and forever quitclaimed all his right, title and interest to a certain estate.'

QUIT'CLAIM, noun A deed of release; an instrument by which all claims to an estate are relinquished to another without any covenant or warranty, express or implied.

Quitclaimed

QUIT'CLAIMED, participle passive Released by deed.

Quitclaiming

QUIT'CLAIMING. participle passive Conveying by deed of release.

Quite

QUITE, adverb [from quit; that is, primarily, free or clear by complete performance.]

Completely; wholly; entirely; totally; perfectly. The work is not quite done; the object is quite accomplished.

He hath sold us and quite devoured also our money. Genesis 31:15.

The same actions may be aimed at different ends, and arise from quite contrary principles.

QUIT'-RENT, noun [Latin quietus reditus.] A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quieted or quit from all other service.

Quits

QUITS, adverb [from quit.] An exclamation used when mutual demands are adjusted and the parties are even, each quit of the other.

Quittal

QUIT'TAL, noun Return; repayment.

Quittance

QUIT'TANCE, noun

1. Discharge from a debt or obligation; an acquittance. [See Acquittance, which is chiefly used.]

2. Recompense; return; repayment.

QUIT'TANCE, verb transitive To repay. [Not in use.]

Quitted

QUIT'TED, participle passive Left; relinquished; acquitted.

Quitter

QUIT'TER. noun

1. One who quits.

2. A deliverer. [Not in use.]

3. Scoria of tin.

Quitter-Bone

QUIT'TER-BONE, noun In farriery, a hard round swelling on the coronet, between the heel and the quarter, usually on the inside of the foot.

Quiver

QUIV'ER, noun

A case or sheath for arrows.

Take the quiver and thy bow. Genesis 27:3.

QUIV'ER, adjective Nimble; active. [Not in use.]

QUIV'ER, verb intransitive

1. To shake or tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver. This word expresses that tremulous motion of the body which proceeds from loss of heat or vigor. Thus persons quiver with fear or with cold.

He quiver'd with his feet and lay for dead.

And left the limbs still quiv'ring on the ground.

2. To play or be agitated with a tremulous motion.

The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind.

The lakes that quiver to the curling breeze.

Quivered

QUIV'ERED, adjective [from the noun quiver.]

1. Furnished with a quiver; as the quivered nymph.

2. Sheathed as in a quiver.

- Whose quills stand quivered at his ear.

Quivering

QUIV'ERING, participle present tense Trembling, as with cold or fear; moving with a tremulous agitation.

QUIV'ERING, noun The act of shaking or trembling; agitation; as, to be seized with a quivering

Quixotic

QUIXOT'IC, adjective Like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance.

Quixotism

QUIX'OTISM, noun Romantic and absurd notions; schemes or actions like those of Don Quixote, the hero of Cervantes.

Quiz

QUIZ, noun An enigma; a riddle or obscure question.

QUIZ, verb transitive To puzzle. [A popular, but not an elegant word.]

Quo Warranto, in Law Latin, a writ brought before a proper tribunal, to inquire by what warrant a person or corporation exercises certain powers.

Quob

QUOB, verb intransitive To move, as the fetus in utero; to throb. [Local, vulgar, and little used.]

Quodlibet

QUOD'LIBET, noun [Latin what you please.] A nice point; a subtilty.

Quodlibetarian

QUODLIBETA'RIAN, noun One who talks and disputes on any subject at pleasure.

Quodlibetical

QUODLIBET'ICAL, adjective Not restrained to a particular subject; moved or discussed at pleasure for curiosity or entertainment.

Quodlibetically

QUODLIBET'ICALLY, adverb At pleasure; for curiosity; so as to be debated for entertainment.

Quoif

QUOIF, noun A cap or hood. [See Coif.]

QUOIF, verb transitive To cover or dress with a coif. [This word may be discarded with advantage.]

Quoiffure

QUOIF'FURE, noun A head dress.

Quoil

QUOIL. [See Coil, the better word.]

Quoin

QUOIN, noun [See Coin].

1. A corner.

2. An instrument to raise any thing; a wedge employed to raise cannon to a proper level, and for other purposes.

3. In architecture, the corner of a brick or stone wall.

Quoit

QUOIT, noun

1. A kind of horse shoe to be pitched or thrown at a fixed object in play. In common practice, a plain flat stone is used for this purpose.

2. In some authors, the discus of the ancients, thrown in trials of strength.

QUOIT, verb intransitive To throw quoits; to play at quoits.

QUOIT, verb transitive To throw. [Not used.]

Quoll

QUOLL, noun An animal of New Holland, resembling the polecat.

Quondam

QUON'DAM, used adjectively. [Latin] Having been formerly; former; as a quondam king or friend.

Quook

QUOOK, preterit tense of quake. obsolete

Quorum

QUO'RUM, noun [Latin gen. plural of qui, who.]

1. A bench of justices, or such a number of officers or members as is competent by law or constitution to transact business; as a quorum of the house of representatives. A constitutional quorum was not present.

2. A special commission of justices.

Quota

QUO'TA, noun [Latin quotus.]

A just part or share; or the share, part or proportion assigned to each. Each state was ordered to furnish its quota of troops.

Quotation

QUOTA'TION, noun [from quote.]

1. The act of quoting or citing.

2. The passage quoted or cited; the part of a book or writing named, repeated or adduced as evidence or illustration.

3. In mercantile language, the naming of the price of commodities; or the price specified to a correspondent.

4. Quota; share. [Not used.]

Quote

QUOTE, verb transitive

1. To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat or adduce a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as, to quote a passage from Homer; to quote the words of Peter, or a passage of Paul's writings; to quote chapter and verse.

2. In commerce, to name, as the price of an article.

3. To note.

QUOTE, noun A note upon an author. obsolete

Quoted

QUO'TED, participle passive Cited; adduced; named.

Quoter

QUO'TER, noun One that cites the words of an author or speaker.

Quoth

QUOTH, verb intransitive [Latin inquio, contracted.]

To say; to speak. This verb is defective, being used only in the first and third persons in the present and past tenses, as quoth I, quoth he, and the nominative always follows the verb. It is used only in ludicrous language, and has no variation for person, number or tense.

Quotidian

QUOTID'IAN, adjective [Latin quotidianus; quotus and dies.] Daily; occurring or returning daily; as a quotidian fever.

QUOTID'IAN, noun

1. A fever whose paroxysms return every day.

2. Any thing returning daily.

Quotient

QUO'TIENT, noun [Latin quoties, how often.]

In arithmetic, the number resulting from the division of one number by another, and showing how often a less number is contained in a greater. Thus 3)12(4. Here 4 is the quotient showing that 3 is contained 4 times in 12. Or quotient is an expression denoting a certain part of a unit; as 3/4.