Question (n.) The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.
Question (n.) Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as, the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question.
Question (n.) Examination with reference to a decisive result; investigation; specifically, a judicial or official investigation; also, examination under torture.
Question (n.) That which is asked; inquiry; interrogatory; query.
Question (n.) Hence, a subject of investigation, examination, or debate; theme of inquiry; matter to be inquired into; as, a delicate or doubtful question.
Question (n.) Talk; conversation; speech; speech.
Questioned (imp. & p. p.) of Question
Questioning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Question
Question (n.) To ask questions; to inquire.
Question (n.) To argue; to converse; to dispute.
Question (v. t.) To inquire of by asking questions; to examine by interrogatories; as, to question a witness.
Question (v. t.) To doubt of; to be uncertain of; to query.
Question (v. t.) To raise a question about; to call in question; to make objection to.
Question (v. t.) To talk to; to converse with.
Questionability (n.) The state or condition of being questionable.
Questionable (a.) Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry.
Questionable (a.) Liable to question; subject to be doubted or called in question; problematical; doubtful; suspicious.
Questionableness (n.) The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious.
Questionably (adv.) In a questionable manner.
Questionary (a.) Inquiring; asking questions; testing.
Questionary (n.) One who makes it his business to seek after relics and carry them about for sale.
Questioner (n.) One who asks questions; an inquirer.
Questionist (n.) A questioner; an inquirer.
Questionist (n.) A candidate for honors or degrees who is near the time of his examination.
Questionless (a.) Unquestioning; incurious.
Questionless (adv.) Beyond a question or doubt; doubtless; certainly.
Questmen (pl. ) of Questman
Questman (n.) One legally empowered to make quest of certain matters, esp. of abuses of weights and measures.
Questman (n.) A churchwarden's assistant; a sidesman.
Questman (n.) A collector of parish rents.
Questmonger (n.) One who lays informations, and encourages petty lawsuits.
Questor (n.) An officer who had the management of the public treasure; a receiver of taxes, tribute, etc.; treasurer of state.
Questorship (n.) The office, or the term of office, of a questor.
Questrist (n.) A seeker; a pursuer.
Questuary (a.) Studious of profit.
Questuary (n.) One employed to collect profits.
Quet (n.) The common guillemot.
Queue (n.) A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail.
Queue (n.) A line of persons waiting anywhere.
Queue (v. t.) To fasten, as hair, in a queue.
Quey (n.) A heifer.
Quib (n.) A quip; a gibe.
Quibble (n.) A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.
Quibble (n.) A pun; a low conceit.
Quibbled (imp. & p. p.) of Quibble
Quibbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quibble
Quibble (v. i.) To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate.
Quibble (v. i.) To pun; to practice punning.
Quibbler (n.) One who quibbles; a caviler; also, a punster.
Quibblingly (adv.) Triflingly; evasively.
Quica (n.) A small South American opossum (Didelphys quica), native of Guiana and Brazil. It feeds upon insects, small birds, and fruit.
Quice (n.) See Queest.
Quich (v. i.) To stir.
Quick (superl.) Alive; living; animate; -- opposed to dead or inanimate.
Quick (superl.) Characterized by life or liveliness; animated; sprightly; agile; brisk; ready.
Quick (superl.) Speedy; hasty; swift; not slow; as, be quick.
Quick (superl.) Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper.
Quick (superl.) Fresh; bracing; sharp; keen.
Quick (superl.) Sensitive; perceptive in a high degree; ready; as, a quick ear.
Quick (superl.) Pregnant; with child.
Quick (adv.) In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay; as, run quick; get back quick.
Quick (n.) That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge.
Quick (n.) The life; the mortal point; a vital part; a part susceptible of serious injury or keen feeling; the sensitive living flesh; the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached; the tender emotions; as, to cut a finger nail to the quick; to thrust a sword to the quick, to taunt one to the quick; -- used figuratively.
Quick (n.) Quitch grass.
Quick (v. t. & i.) To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive.
Quickbeam (n.) See Quicken tree.
quickened (imp. & p. p.) of Quicken
Quickening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quicken
Quicken (a.) To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite.
Quicken (a.) To make lively, active, or sprightly; to impart additional energy to; to stimulate; to make quick or rapid; to hasten; to accelerate; as, to quicken one's steps or thoughts; to quicken one's departure or speed.
Quicken (a.) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced.
Quicken (v. i.) 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.
Quicken (v. i.) To move with rapidity or activity; to become accelerated; as, his pulse quickened.
Quickener (n.) One who, or that which, quickens.
Quickening (n.) The act or process of making or of becoming quick.
Quickening (n.) The first motion of the fetus in the womb felt by the mother, occurring usually about the middle of the term of pregnancy. It has been popularly supposed to be due to the fetus becoming possessed of independent life.
Quickens (n.) Quitch grass.
Quicken tree () The European rowan tree; -- called also quickbeam, and quickenbeam. See Rowan tree.
Quickhatch (n.) The wolverine.
Quicklime (a.) Calcium oxide; unslacked lime; -- so called because when wet it develops great heat. See 4th Lime, 2.
Quickly (adv.) Speedily; with haste or celerity; soon; without delay; quick.
Quickness (n.) The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.
Quickness (n.) Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit.
Quickness (n.) Acuteness of perception; keen sensibility.
Quickness (n.) Sharpness; pungency of taste.
Quicksand (n.) Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it.
Quick-scented (a.) Acute of smell.
Quickset (n.) A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn.
Quickset (a.) Made of quickset.
Quickset (v. t.) To plant with living shrubs or trees for a hedge; as, to quickset a ditch.
Quick-sighted (a.) Having quick sight or acute discernment; quick to see or to discern.
Quicksilver (a.) The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver.
Quicksilvered (a.) Overlaid with quicksilver, or with an amalgam of quicksilver and tinfoil.
Quicksilvering (n.) The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.
Quickstep (n.) A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of dancing.
Quick-witted (a.) Having ready wit
Quick-wittedness (n.) Readiness of wit.
Quickwork (n.) All the submerged section of a vessel's planking.
Quickwork (n.) The planking between the spirketing and the clamps.
Quickwork (n.) The short planks between the portholes.