Quarter round () An ovolo.
Quarterstaves (pl. ) of Quarterstaff
Quarterstaff (n.) A long and stout staff formerly used as a weapon of defense and offense; -- so called because in holding it one hand was placed in the middle, and the other between the middle and the end.
Quartet (n.) Alt. of Quartette
Quartette (n.) A composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument.
Quartette (n.) The set of four person who perform a piece of music in four parts.
Quartette (n.) A stanza of four lines.
Quartic (a.) Of the fourth degree.
Quartic (n.) A quantic of the fourth degree. See Quantic.
Quartic (n.) A curve or surface whose equation is of the fourth degree in the variables.
Quartile (n.) Same as Quadrate.
Quartine (n.) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.
Quarto (a.) Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto.
Quartos (pl. ) of Quarto
Quarto (n.) 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.
Quartridge (n.) Quarterage.
Quartz (n.) A form of silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2), occurring in hexagonal crystals, which are commonly colorless and transparent, but sometimes also yellow, brown, purple, green, and of other colors; also in cryptocrystalline massive forms varying in color and degree of transparency, being sometimes opaque.
Quartziferous (a.) Consisting chiefly of quartz; containing quartz.
Quartzite (n.) Massive quartz occurring as a rock; a metamorphosed sandstone; -- called also quartz rock.
Quartzoid (n.) A form of crystal common with quartz, consisting of two six-sided pyramids, base to base.
Quartzose (a.) Containing, or resembling, quartz; partaking of the nature or qualities of quartz.
quartzous (a.) Quarzose.
Quartzy (a.) Quartzose.
Quas (n.) A kind of beer. Same as Quass.
Quaschi (n.) Alt. of Quasje
Quasje (n.) The brown coati. See Coati.
Quash (n.) Same as Squash.
Quashed (imp. & p. p.) of Quash
Quashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quash
Quash (v. t.) To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment.
Quash (v. t.) To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to crush.
Quash (v. t.) To crush; to subdue; to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely; as, to quash a rebellion.
Quash (v. i.) To be shaken, or dashed about, with noise.
Quashee (n.) A negro of the West Indies.
Quasi () As if; as though; as it were; in a manner sense or degree; having some resemblance to; qualified; -- used as an adjective, or a prefix with a noun or an adjective; as, a quasi contract, an implied contract, an obligation which has arisen from some act, as if from a contract; a quasi corporation, a body that has some, but not all, of the peculiar attributes of a corporation; a quasi argument, that which resembles, or is used as, an argument; quasi historical, apparently historical, seeming to be historical.
Quasimodo (n.) The first Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.
Quass (n.) A thin, sour beer, made by pouring warm water on rye or barley meal and letting it ferment, -- much used by the Russians.
Quassation (n.) The act of shaking, or the state of being shaken.
Quassia (n.) The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarubeae, as Quassia amara, Picraena excelsa, and Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer.
Quassin (n.) The bitter principle of quassia, extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called quassite.
Quat (n.) A pustule.
Quat (n.) An annoying, worthless person.
Quat (v. t.) To satiate; to satisfy.
Quata (n.) The coaita.
Quatch (a.) Squat; flat.
Quater-cousin (n.) A cousin within the first four degrees of kindred.
Quaternary (a.) Consisting of four; by fours, or in sets of four.
Quaternary (a.) Later than, or subsequent to, the Tertiary; Post-tertiary; as, the Quaternary age, or Age of man.
Quaternary (n.) The number four.
Quaternary (n.) The Quaternary age, era, or formation. See the Chart of Geology.
Quaternate (a.) Composed of, or arranged in, sets of four; quaternary; as, quaternate leaves.
Quaternion (n.) The number four.
Quaternion (n.) A set of four parts, things, or person; four things taken collectively; a group of four words, phrases, circumstances, facts, or the like.
Quaternion (n.) A word of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.
Quaternion (n.) The quotient of two vectors, or of two directed right lines in space, considered as depending on four geometrical elements, and as expressible by an algebraic symbol of quadrinomial form.
Quaternion (v. t.) To divide into quaternions, files, or companies.
Quaternity (n.) The number four.
Quaternity (n.) The union of four in one, as of four persons; -- analogous to the theological term trinity.
Quateron (n.) See 2d Quarteron.
Quatorzain (n.) A poem of fourteen lines; a sonnet.
Quatorze (n.) The four aces, kings, queens, knaves, or tens, in the game of piquet; -- so called because quatorze counts as fourteen points.
Quatrain (n.) A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately.
Quatre (n.) A card, die. or domino, having four spots, or pips
Quatrefeuille (n.) Alt. of Quatrefoil
Quatrefoil (n.) Same as Quarterfoil.
Quatuor (n.) A quartet; -- applied chiefly to instrumental compositions.
Quave (n.) See Quaver.
Quave (v. i.) To quaver.
Quavemire (n.) See Quagmire.
Quavered (imp. & p. p.) of Quaver
Quavering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quaver
Quaver (v. i.) To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.
Quaver (v. i.) Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument
Quaver (v. t.) To utter with quavers.
Quaver (n.) A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music.
Quaver (n.) An eighth note. See Eighth.
Quaverer (n.) One who quavers; a warbler.
Quay (n.) A mole, bank, or wharf, formed toward the sea, or at the side of a harbor, river, or other navigable water, for convenience in loading and unloading vessels.
Quay (v. t.) To furnish with quays.
Quayage (n.) Wharfage.
Quayd () p. p. of Quail.
Que (n.) A half farthing.
Queach (n.) A thick, bushy plot; a thicket.
Queach (v. i.) To stir; to move. See Quick, v. i.
Queachy (a.) Yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy ground; shaking; moving.
Queachy (a.) Like a queach; thick; bushy.
Quean (n.) A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl.
Quean (n.) A low woman; a wench; a slut.
Queasily (adv.) In a queasy manner.
Queasiness (n.) The state of being queasy; nausea; qualmishness; squeamishness.
Queasy (a.) Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; qualmish.
Queasy (a.) Fastidious; squeamish; delicate; easily disturbed; unsettled; ticklish.
Quebec group () The middle of the three groups into which the rocks of the Canadian period have been divided in the American Lower Silurian system. See the Chart of Geology.
Quebracho (n.) A Chilian apocynaceous tree (Aspidosperma Quebracho); also, its bark, which is used as a febrifuge, and for dyspn/a of the lung, or bronchial diseases; -- called also white quebracho, to distinguish it from the red quebracho, a Mexican anacardiaceous tree (Loxopterygium Lorentzii) whose bark is said to have similar properties.
Quebrith (n.) Sulphur.
Quech (v. i.) Alt. of Queck
Queck (v. i.) A word occurring in a corrupt passage of Bacon's Essays, and probably meaning, to stir, to move.
Queen (n.) The wife of a king.
Queen (n.) A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots.
Queen (n.) A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind; as, a queen in society; -- also used figuratively of cities, countries, etc.