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Quackish
Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery.
Quackism
Quackery.
Quadrantal
Of or pertaining to a quadrant; also, included in the fourth part of a circle; .
Quadrate
Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
Quadratojugal
Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones.
Quadratrix
A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves; .
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.
Quadric
Of or pertaining to the second degree.
Quadrivalve
A door, shutter, or the like, having four folds.
Quadrivial
One of the four liberal arts making up the quadrivium.
Quaketail
A wagtail.
Quaky
Shaky, or tremulous; quaking.
Qualificative
That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term or statement.
Qualitative
Relating to quality; having the character of quality.
Quarantine
To compel to remain at a distance, or in a given place, without intercourse, when suspected of having contagious disease; to put under, or in, quarantine.
Quarrel
A breach of concord, amity, or obligation; a falling out; a difference; a disagreement; an antagonism in opinion, feeling, or conduct; esp., an angry dispute, contest, or strife; a brawl; an altercation; .
Quarrel
To violate concord or agreement; to have a difference; to fall out; to be or become antagonistic.
Quarrelet
A little quarrel. See 1st , 2.
Quarrelsome
Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.
Quarry
Same as 1st .
Quart
The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
Quartering
A station.
Quarterly
By quarters; once in a quarter of a year; .
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.
Quartine
A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.
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.
Quartzy
Quartzose.
Quassia
The wood of several tropical American trees of the order , as , , and . It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer.
Quaternary
The number four.
Quatorze
The four aces, kings, queens, knaves, or tens, in the game of piquet; -- so called because counts as fourteen points.
Quebrith
Sulphur.
Queenfish
A California scinoid food fish (). The back is bluish, and the sides and belly bright silvery. Called also .
Queening
Any one of several kinds of apples, as , , and . An apple called the was cultivated in England two hundred years ago.
Queen truss
A truss framed with queen-posts; a queen-post truss.
Quell
To take the life of; to kill.
Quencher
One who, or that which, quenches.
Quercus
A genus of trees constituted by the oak. See .
Query
To ask questions; to make inquiry.
Quibbler
One who quibbles; a caviler; also, a punster.
Quick
That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge.
Quicken
To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite.
Quickhatch
The wolverine.
Quicksilver
The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver.
Quiet
In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still;
Quietage
Quietness.
Quill
To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; .
Quinate
A salt of quinic acid.
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.
Quinnat
The California salmon (); -- called also , , , and . It is of great commercial importance.
Quinogen
A hypothetical radical of quinine and related alkaloids.
Quinquarticular
Relating to the five articles or points; .
Quinqueangled
Having five angles; quinquangular.
Quinquelobed
Same as .
Quinquennalia
Public games celebrated every five years.
Quintel
See .
Quintine
The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument. Cf. , and .
Quintuplets
five children born from one mother in a single pregnancy.
Quire
A collection of twenty-four sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one twentieth of a ream.
Quirinal
Of, pertaining to, or designating, the hill , now (one of the seven hills of Rome), or a modern royal place situated upon it. Also used substantively.
Quirk
A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; .
Quitclaim
To release or relinquish a claim to; to release a claim to by deed, without covenants of warranty against adverse and paramount titles.
Quitrent
A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service.
Quitter
One who quits.
Quivered
Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver.
Quod
To put in quod, or prison; to lock up; to jug.
Quoin
Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked.
Quotable
Capable or worthy of being quoted;
Quotation
The act of quoting or citing.
Quotidian
Occurring or returning daily; .
Quotiety
The relation of an object to number.