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QCD
Quantum chromodynamics.
Qua-bird
The American night heron. See under .
Quack
The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.
Quackish
Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery.
Quadragesimal
Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten.
Quadratrix
A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves; .
Quadrennial
Comprising four years; .
Quadric
Of or pertaining to the second degree.
Quadriceps
The great extensor muscle of the knee, divided above into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee.
Quadriennial
Same as .
Quadriliteral
Consisting of four letters.
Quadrilocular
Having four cells, or cavities; .
Quadripartite
Divided into four parts.
Quadrireme
A galley with four banks of oars or rowers.
Quadruple
To multiply by four; to increase fourfold; to double; to double twice.
Quadruple
To be multiplied by four; to increase fourfold; to become four times as much.
Quadruply
To a fourfold quantity; so as to be, or cause to be, quadruple; .
Quag
A quagmire.
Quaky
Shaky, or tremulous; quaking.
Qualificator
An officer whose business it is to examine and prepare causes for trial in the ecclesiastical courts.
Qualifiedly
In the way of qualification; with modification or qualification.
Qualifiedness
The state of being qualified.
Quandong
The edible drupaceous fruit of an Australian tree () of the Sandalwood family; -- called also .
Quarrel
To violate concord or agreement; to have a difference; to fall out; to be or become antagonistic.
Quarrellous
Quarrelsome.
Quartane
Butane, each molecule of which has four carbon atoms.
Quarter
To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels.
Quartering
Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object.
Quartic
A quantic of the fourth degree. See .
Quarto
Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size.
Quash
To be shaken, or dashed about, with noise.
Quat
A pustule.
Quata
The coaita.
Quave
See .
Quave
To quaver.
Quaver
A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music.
Queendom
The dominion, condition, or character of a queen.
Queening
Any one of several kinds of apples, as , , and . An apple called the was cultivated in England two hundred years ago.
Queenly
Like, becoming, or suitable to, a queen.
Queer
At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; .
Queerness
The quality or state of being queer.
Queller
A killer; .
Quelquechose
A trifle; a kickshaw.
Quercitin
A yellow crystalline substance, occurring quite widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, as in apple-tree bark, horse-chestnut leaves, etc., but originally obtained by the decomposition of quercitrin. Called also .
Querele
A complaint to a court. See .
Querl
To twirl; to turn or wind round; to coil; .
Querl
A coil; a twirl; .
Query
To put questions about; to elicit by questioning; to inquire into;
Quick
Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to or .
Quick
In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay;
Quicken
To come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the fetus in the womb.
Quickening
The act or process of making or of becoming quick.
Quickens
Quitch grass.
Quick-sighted
Having quick sight or acute discernment; quick to see or to discern.
Quiet
In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still;
Quillwort
Any plant or species of the genus , cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four-tubed rushlike leaves, rising from a corm, and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves.
Quilter
One who, or that which, quilts.
Quindecemvir
One of a sacerdotal college of fifteen men whose chief duty was to take care of the Sibylline books.
Quinible
An interval of a fifth; also, a part sung with such intervals.
Quinic
Pertaining to, derived from, or connected with, quinine and related compounds; specifically, designating a nonnitrogenous acid obtained from cinchona bark, coffee, beans, etc., as a white crystalline substance.
Quinicine
An uncrystallizable alkaloid obtained by the action of heat from quinine, with which it is isomeric.
Quinine
An alkaloid extracted from the bark of several species of cinchona (esp. ) as a bitter white crystalline substance, . Hence, by extension , any of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also , , etc.
Quininic
Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid obtained as a yellow crystalline substance by the oxidation of quinine.
Quinquarticular
Relating to the five articles or points; .
Quinquefarious
Arranged in five vertical rows; pentastichous.
Quinquennium
Space of five years.
Quinquevir
One of five commissioners appointed for some special object.
Quintessence
The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See , under .
Quintessential
Of the nature of a quintessence; purest; most characteristic.
Quintile
The aspect of planets when separated the fifth part of the zodiac, or 72.
Quintole
A group of five notes to be played or sung in the time of four of the same species.
Quip
To taunt; to treat with quips.
Quipo
Same as .
Quirister
A chorister. See .
Quirk
A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; .
Quirt
A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.
Quitly
Quite.
Quitter
One who quits.
Quivered
Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver.
Quixotism
That form of delusion which leads to extravagant and absurd undertakings or sacrifices in obedience to a morbidly romantic ideal of duty or honor, as illustrated by the exploits of in knight-errantry. See .
Quoke
of .
Quotation
The act of quoting or citing.
Quote
A note upon an author.