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Quab
An unfledged bird; hence, something immature or unfinished.
Qua-bird
The American night heron. See under .
Quacha
The quagga.
Quadragene
An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance.
Quadrat
A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines.
Quadrature
The act of squaring; the finding of a square having the same area as some given curvilinear figure; ; the operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure bounded wholly or in part by a curved line, as by a curve, two ordinates, and the axis of abscissas.
Quadribasic
Same as .
Quadrijugous
Pinnate, with four pairs of leaflets; .
Quadrinomical
Quadrinomial.
Quadripartitely
In four parts.
Quadrivalve
Dehiscent into four similar parts; four-valved; .
Quadrumana
A division of the Primates comprising the apes and monkeys; -- so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb. Formerly the were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included man alone.
Quadrumane
One of the Quadrumana.
Quadrumanous
Having four hands; of or pertaining to the Quadrumana.
Qure
Inquire; question; see; -- used to signify doubt or to suggest investigation.
Quakerlike
Like a Quaker.
Quaketail
A wagtail.
Quality
The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank.
Quandary
To bring into a state of uncertainty, perplexity, or difficulty.
Quantic
A homogeneous algebraic function of two or more variables, in general containing only positive integral powers of the variables, and called , , , etc., according as it is of the second, third, fourth, fifth, or a higher degree. These are further called , , , etc., according as they contain two, three, four, or more variables; thus, the is a .
Quantitative
Relating to quantity.
Quart
The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
Quartation
The act, process, or result (in the of parting) of alloying a button of nearly pure gold with enough silver to reduce the fineness so as to allow acids to attack and remove all metals except the gold; -- called also . Compare .
Quarter
To divide into four equal parts.
Quarter
To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
Quartered
Divided into four equal parts or quarters; separated into four parts or regions.
Quartermaster
An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies.
Quartic
Of the fourth degree.
Quartridge
Quarterage.
Quash
To be shaken, or dashed about, with noise.
Quater-cousin
A cousin within the first four degrees of kindred.
Quaternion
To divide into quaternions, files, or companies.
Quaver
To utter with quavers.
Quaverer
One who quavers; a warbler.
Queach
To stir; to move. See ,
Queachy
Yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy ground; shaking; moving.
Queendom
The dominion, condition, or character of a queen.
Querimonious
Complaining; querulous; apt to complain.
Querist
One who inquires, or asks questions.
Querl
A coil; a twirl; .
Question
To inquire of by asking questions; to examine by interrogatories; .
Questionary
Inquiring; asking questions; testing.
questionnaire
same as .
Quet
The common guillemot.
Quibblingly
Triflingly; evasively.
Quickener
One who, or that which, quickens.
Quicken tree
The European rowan tree; -- called also , and . See .
Quickhatch
The wolverine.
Quiddle
To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.
Quiet
In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still;
Quieter
One who, or that which, quiets.
Quill
To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; .
Quindism
A fifteenth.
Quinia
Quinine.
Quinible
An interval of a fifth; also, a part sung with such intervals.
Quinidine
An alkaloid isomeric with, and resembling, quinine, found in certain species of cinchona, from which it is extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; conchinine. It is used somewhat as a febrifuge.
Quininic
Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid obtained as a yellow crystalline substance by the oxidation of quinine.
Quinquefarious
Arranged in five vertical rows; pentastichous.
Quintel
See .
Quintilllion
According to the French notation, which is used on the Continent and in America, the cube of a million, or a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a number produced by involving a million to the fifth power, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed. See the Note under .
Quintine
The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument. Cf. , and .
Quinze
A game at cards in which the object is to make fifteen points.
Quirboilly
Leather softened by boiling so as to take any required shape. Upon drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor.
Quire
To sing in concert.
Quirite
One of the Quirites.
Quit
To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
Quitch grass
A perennial grass () having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called , , , . See in Appendix.
Quiveringly
With quivering motion.
Quoit
To throw; to pitch.
Quop
See .
Quotation
The act of quoting or citing.
Quotha
Indeed; forsooth.
Quran
See .