Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter Q - Page 11

Quoin (n.) To support the breech of a cannon.

Quoin (n.) To wedge or lock up a form within a chase.

Quoin (n.) To prevent casks from rolling.

Quoit (n.) A flattened ring-shaped piece of iron, to be pitched at a fixed object in play; hence, any heavy flat missile used for the same purpose, as a stone, piece of iron, etc.

Quoit (n.) A game played with quoits.

Quoit (n.) The discus of the ancients. See Discus.

Quoit (n.) A cromlech.

Quoit (v. i.) To throw quoits; to play at quoits.

Quoit (v. t.) To throw; to pitch.

Quoke () imp. of Quake.

Quoll (n.) A marsupial of Australia (Dasyurus macrurus), about the size of a cat.

Quondam (a.) Having been formerly; former; sometime.

Quondam (n.) A person dismissed or ejected from a position.

Quook () imp. of Quake.

Quop (v. i.) See Quob.

Quorum (n.) Such a number of the officers or members of any body as is competent by law or constitution to transact business; as, a quorum of the House of Representatives; a constitutional quorum was not present.

Quota (n.) A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.

Quotable (a.) Capable or worthy of being quoted; as, a quotable writer; a quotable sentence.

Quotation (n.) The act of quoting or citing.

Quotation (n.) That which is quoted or cited; a part of a book or writing named, repeated, or adduced as evidence or illustration.

Quotation (n.) The naming or publishing of the current price of stocks, bonds, or any commodity; also the price named.

Quotation (n.) Quota; share.

Quotation (n.) A piece of hollow type metal, lower than type, and measuring two or more pica ems in length and breadth, used in the blank spaces at the beginning and end of chapters, etc.

Quotationist (n.) One who makes, or is given to making, quotations.

Quoted (imp. & p. p.) of Quote

Quoting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quote

Quote (v. t.) To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as, to quote a passage from Homer.

Quote (v. t.) To cite a passage from; to name as the authority for a statement or an opinion; as, to quote Shakespeare.

Quote (v. t.) To name the current price of.

Quote (v. t.) To notice; to observe; to examine.

Quote (v. t.) To set down, as in writing.

Quote (n.) A note upon an author.

Quoter (n.) One who quotes the words of another.

Quoth (v. t.) Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object; as, quoth I. quoth he.

Quotha (interj.) Indeed; forsooth.

Quotidian (a.) Occurring or returning daily; as, a quotidian fever.

Quotidian (n.) Anything returning daily; especially (Med.), an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day.

Quotient (n.) The number resulting from the division of one number by another, and showing how often a less number is contained in a greater; thus, the quotient of twelve divided by four is three.

Quotient (n.) The result of any process inverse to multiplication. See the Note under Multiplication.

Quotiety (n.) The relation of an object to number.

Quotum (n.) Part or proportion; quota.

Quo warranto () A writ brought before a proper tribunal, to inquire by what warrant a person or a corporation acts, or exercises certain powers.

Quran (n.) See Koran.

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