Dictionary Q

• Qua Dictionary Q - conjecture In so far as; in the capacity or character of; as.
• Quab Dictionary Q - noun An unfledged bird; hence, something immature or unfinished.
• Qua-bird Dictionary Q - noun The American night heron. See under Night.
• Quacha Dictionary Q - noun The quagga.
• Qvacked Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quack.
• Quacking Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quack.
• Quack Dictionary Q - intransitive verb To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
• Quackeries Dictionary Q - pleural of Quackery.
• Quackery Dictionary Q - noun The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism.
• Quack grass Dictionary Q - See Quitch grass.
• Quackish Dictionary Q - adjective Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery.
• Quackism Dictionary Q - noun Quackery.
• Quackled Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quackle.
• Quackling Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quackle.
• Quackle Dictionary Q - verb intransitive & transitive To suffocate; to choke.
• Quacksalver Dictionary Q - noun One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank.
• Quad Dictionary Q - adjective Alt. of Quade.
• Quade Dictionary Q - adjective Evil; bad; baffling; as, a quade wind.
• Quadrae Dictionary Q - pleural of Quadra.
• Quadra Dictionary Q - noun The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like.
• Quadrable Dictionary Q - adjective That may be sqyared, or reduced to an equivalent square; - said of a surface when the area limited by a curve can be exactly found, and expressed in a finite number of algebraic terms.
• Quadragenarious Dictionary Q - adjective Consisting of forty; forty years old.
• Quadragene Dictionary Q - noun An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance.
• Quadragesima Dictionary Q - noun The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent.
• Quadragesimal Dictionary Q - adjective Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten.
• Quadragesimals Dictionary Q - noun plural Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.
• Quadrangle Dictionary Q - noun A plane figure having four angles, and consequently four sides; any figure having four angles.
• Quadrangular Dictionary Q - adjective Having four angles, and consequently four sides; tetragonal.
• Quadrantes Dictionary Q - pleural of Quadrans.
• Quadrans Dictionary Q - noun A fourth part of the coin called an as. See 3d As, 2.
• Quadrant Dictionary Q - noun The fourth part; the quarter.
• Quadrantal Dictionary Q - adjective Of or pertaining to a quadrant; also, included in the fourth part of a circle; as, quadrantal space.
• Quadrat Dictionary Q - noun A block of type metal lower than the letters, - used in spacing and in blank lines.
• Quadrate Dictionary Q - adjective Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
• Quadrated Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quadrate.
• Quadrating Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quadrate.
• Quadratic Dictionary Q - adjective Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square.
• Quadratics Dictionary Q - noun That branch of algebra which treats of quadratic equations.
• Quadratojugal Dictionary Q - adjective Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones.
• Quadratrix Dictionary Q - noun A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves; as the quadratrix, of Dinostratus, or of Tschirnhausen.
• Quadrature Dictionary Q - adjective The act of squaring; the finding of a square having the same area as some given curvilinear figure; as, the quadrature of a circle; 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.
• Quadrel Dictionary Q - noun A square piece of turf or peat.
• Quadrennial Dictionary Q - adjective Comprising four years; as, a quadrennial period.
• Quadrennially Dictionary Q - adverb Once in four years.
• Quadrennium Dictionary Q - noun A space or period of four years.
• Quadri- Dictionary Q - A combining form meaning four, four times, fourfold; as, quadricapsular, having four capsules.
• Quadribasic Dictionary Q - adjective Same as Tetrabasic.
• Quadrible Dictionary Q - adjective Quadrable.
• Quadric Dictionary Q - adjective Of or pertaining to the second degree.
• Quadricapsular Dictionary Q - adjective Having four capsules.
• Quadriceps Dictionary Q - noun The great extensor muscle of the knee, divided above into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee.
• Quadricipital Dictionary Q - noun Of or pertaining to the quadriceps.
• Quadricorn Dictionary Q - noun Any quadricornous animal.
• Quadricornous Dictionary Q - adjective Having four horns, or hornlike organs; as, a quadricornous beetle.
• Quadricostate Dictionary Q - adjective Having four ribs.
• Quadridentate Dictionary Q - adjective Having four teeth; as, a quadridentate leaf.
• Quadriennial Dictionary Q - adjective Same as Quadrennial.
• Quadrifarious Dictionary Q - adjective Arranged in four rows or ranks; as, quadrifarious leaves.
• Quadrifid Dictionary Q - adjective Divided, or deeply cleft, into four parts; as, a quadrifid perianth; a quadrifid leaf.
• Quadrifoil Dictionary Q - adjective Alt. of Quadrifoliate.
• Quadrifoliate Dictionary Q - adjective Four-leaved; having the leaves in whorls of four.
• Quadrifurcated Dictionary Q - adjective Having four forks, or branches.
• Quadrigae Dictionary Q - pleural of Quadriga.
• Quadriga Dictionary Q - noun A car or chariot drawn by four horses abreast.
• Quadrigeminal Dictionary Q - adjective Alt. of Quadrigeminous.
• Quadrigeminous Dictionary Q - adjective Fourfold; having four similar parts, or two pairs of similar parts.
• Quadrigenarious Dictionary Q - adjective Consisting of four hundred.
• Quadrijugate Dictionary Q - adjective Same as Quadrijugous.
• Quadrijugous Dictionary Q - adjective Pinnate, with four pairs of leaflets; as, a quadrijugous leaf.
• Quadrilateral Dictionary Q - adjective Having four sides, and consequently four angles; quadrangular.
• Quadrilateralness Dictionary Q - noun The property of being quadrilateral.
• Quadriliteral Dictionary Q - adjective Consisting of four letters.
• Quadrille Dictionary Q - noun A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set.
• Quadrillion Dictionary Q - noun According to the French notation, which is followed also upon the Continent and in the United States, a unit with fifteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the fourth power, or the number represented by a unit with twenty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.
• Quadrilobate Dictionary Q - adjective Alt. of Quadrilobed.
• Quadrilobed Dictionary Q - adjective Having four lobes; as, a quadrilobate leaf.
• Quadrilocular Dictionary Q - adjective Having four cells, or cavities; as, a quadrilocular heart.
• Quadrin Dictionary Q - noun A small piece of money, in value about a farthing, or a half cent.
• Quadrinodal Dictionary Q - adjective Possessing four nodes; as, quadrinodal curves.
• Quadrinomial Dictionary Q - noun A polynomial of four terms connected by the signs plus or minus.
• Quadrinomical Dictionary Q - adjective Quadrinomial.
• Quadrinominal Dictionary Q - adjective Quadrinomial.
• Quadripartite Dictionary Q - adjective Divided into four parts.
• Quadripartitely Dictionary Q - adverb In four parts.
• Quadripartition Dictionary Q - noun A division or distribution by four, or into four parts; also, a taking the fourth part of any quantity or number.
• Quadripennate Dictionary Q - adjective Having four wings; - said of insects.
• Quadriphyllous Dictionary Q - adjective Having four leaves; quadrifoliate.
• Quadrireme Dictionary Q - noun A galley with four banks of oars or rowers.
• Quadrisection Dictionary Q - noun A subdivision into four parts.
• Quadrisulcate Dictionary Q - adjective Having four hoofs; as, a quadrisulcate foot; a quadrisulcate animal.
• Quadrisyllabic Dictionary Q - Alt. of Quadri-syllabical.
• Quadri-syllabical Dictionary Q - Having four syllables; of or pertaining to quadrisyllables; as, a quadrisyllabic word.
• Quadrisyllable Dictionary Q - noun A word consisting of four syllables.
• Quadrivalence Dictionary Q - noun The quality or state of being quadrivalent; tetravalence.
• Quadrivalent Dictionary Q - adjective Having a valence of four; capable of combining with, being replaced by, or compared with, four monad atoms; tetravalent; - said of certain atoms and radicals; thus, carbon and silicon are quadrivalent elements.
• Quadrivalve Dictionary Q - adjective Dehiscent into four similar parts; four-valved; as, a quadrivalve pericarp.
• Quadrivalvular Dictionary Q - adjective Having four valves; quadrivalve.
• Quadrivial Dictionary Q - adjective Having four ways meeting in a point.
• Quadrivium Dictionary Q - noun The four "liberal arts," arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; - so called by the schoolmen. See Trivium.
• Quadroon Dictionary Q - noun The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person quarter-blooded.
• Quadroxide Dictionary Q - noun A tetroxide.
• Quadrumana Dictionary Q - noun plural A division of the Primates comprising the apes and monkeys; - so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb. Formerly the Quadrumana were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included man alone.
• Quadrumane Dictionary Q - noun One of the Quadrumana.
• Quadrumanous Dictionary Q - adjective Having four hands; of or pertaining to the Quadrumana.
• Quadruped Dictionary Q - adjective Having four feet.
• Quadrupedal Dictionary Q - adjective Having four feet; of or pertaining to a quadruped.
• Quadruple Dictionary Q - adjective Fourfold; as, to make quadruple restitution; a quadruple alliance.
• Quadrupled Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quadruple.
• Quadrupling Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quadruple.
• Quadruplex Dictionary Q - adjective Fourfold; folded or doubled twice.
• Quadruplicated Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quadruplicate.
• Quadruplicating Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quadruplicate.
• Quadruplicate Dictionary Q - verb transitive To make fourfold; to double twice; to quadruple.
• Quadruplication Dictionary Q - noun The act of making fourfold; a taking four times the simple sum or amount.
• Quadruply Dictionary Q - adverb To a fourfold quantity; so as to be, or cause to be, quadruple; as, to be quadruply recompensed.
• Quaere Dictionary Q - v. imperative. Inquire; question; see; - used to signify doubt or to suggest investigation.
• Quaestor Dictionary Q - noun Same as Questor.
• Quaffed Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quaff.
• Quaffing Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quaff.
• Quaff Dictionary Q - verb transitive To drink with relish; to drink copiously of; to swallow in large draughts.
• Quaffer Dictionary Q - noun One who quaffs, or drinks largely.
• Quag Dictionary Q - noun A quagmire.
• Quagga Dictionary Q - noun A South African wild ass (Equus, / Hippotigris, quagga). The upper parts are reddish brown, becoming paler behind and behind and beneath, with dark stripes on the face, neck, and fore part of the body.
• Quaggy Dictionary Q - adjective Of the nature of a quagmire; yielding or trembling under the foot, as soft, wet earth; spongy; boggy.
• Quagmire Dictionary Q - noun Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet.
• Quahog Dictionary Q - noun Alt. of Quahaug.
• Quahaug Dictionary Q - noun An American market clam (Venus mercenaria). It is sold in large quantities, and is highly valued as food. Called also round clam, and hard clam.
• Quaigh Dictionary Q - noun Alt. of Quaich.
• Quaich Dictionary Q - noun A small shallow cup or drinking vessel.
• Qualled Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quail.
• Qualling Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quail.
• Quail Dictionary Q - intransitive verb To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade.
• Quaily Dictionary Q - noun The upland plover.
• Quaint Dictionary Q - adjective Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily.
• Quaintise Dictionary Q - noun Craft; subtlety; cunning.
• Quaintly Dictionary Q - adverb In a quaint manner.
• Quaintness Dictionary Q - noun The quality of being quaint.
• Quair Dictionary Q - noun A quire; a book.
• Quaked Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quake.
• Quaking Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quake.
• Quake Dictionary Q - intransitive verb To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble.
• Quaker Dictionary Q - noun One who quakes.
• Quakeress Dictionary Q - noun A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends.
• Quakerish Dictionary Q - adjective Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.
• Quakerism Dictionary Q - noun The peculiar character, manners, tenets, etc., of the Quakers.
• Quakerlike Dictionary Q - adjective Like a Quaker.
• Quakerly Dictionary Q - adjective Resembling Quakers; Quakerlike; Quakerish.
• Quakery Dictionary Q - noun Quakerism.
• Quaketail Dictionary Q - noun A wagtail.
• Quakness Dictionary Q - noun The state of being quaky; liability to quake.
• Quakingly Dictionary Q - adverb In a quaking manner; fearfully.
• Quaky Dictionary Q - adjective Shaky, or tremulous; quaking.
• Qualifiable Dictionary Q - adjective Capable of being qualified; abatable; modifiable.
• Qualification Dictionary Q - noun The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified.
• Qualificative Dictionary Q - noun That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term or statement.
• Qualificator Dictionary Q - noun An officer whose business it is to examine and prepare causes for trial in the ecclesiastical courts.
• Qualified Dictionary Q - adjective Fitted by accomplishments or endowments.
• Qualifiedly Dictionary Q - adverb In the way of qualification; with modification or qualification.
• Qualifiedness Dictionary Q - noun The state of being qualified.
• Qualifier Dictionary Q - noun One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains.
• Qualifying Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Qualify.
• Qualify Dictionary Q - verb transitive To make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the knowledge, skill, or other accomplishment necessary for a purpose; to make capable, as of an employment or privilege; to supply with legal power or capacity.
• Qualitative Dictionary Q - adjective Relating to quality; having the character of quality.
• Qualitied Dictionary Q - adjective Furnished with qualities; endowed.
• Qualities Dictionary Q - pleural of Quality.
• Quality Dictionary Q - noun The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank.
• Qualm Dictionary Q - noun Sickness; disease; pestilence; death.
• Qualmish Dictionary Q - adjective Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea or sickly languor; inclined to vomit.
• Quamash Dictionary Q - noun See Camass.
• Quamoclit Dictionary Q - noun Formerly, a genus of plants including the cypress vine (Quamoclit vulgaris, now called Ipomoea Quamoclit). The genus is now merged in Ipomoea.
• Quandaries Dictionary Q - pleural of Quandary.
• Quandary Dictionary Q - noun A state of difficulty or perplexity; doubt; uncertainty.
• Quandong Dictionary Q - noun The edible drupaceous fruit of an Australian tree (Fusanus acuminatus) of the Sandalwood family; - called also quandang.
• Quandy Dictionary Q - noun The old squaw.
• Quannet Dictionary Q - noun A flat file having the handle at one side, so as to be used like a plane.
• Quant Dictionary Q - noun A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.
• Quantic Dictionary Q - noun A homogeneous algebraic function of two or more variables, in general containing only positive integral powers of the variables, and called quadric, cubic, quartic, etc., according as it is of the second, third, fourth, fifth, or a higher degree. These are further called binary, ternary, quaternary, etc., according as they contain two, three, four, or more variables; thus, the quantic / is a binary cubic.
• Quantification Dictionary Q - noun Modification by a reference to quantity; the introduction of the element of quantity.
• Quantity Dictionary Q - verb transitive To modify or qualify with respect to quantity; to fix or express the quantity of; to rate.
• Quantitative Dictionary Q - adjective Relating to quantity.
• Quantitive Dictionary Q - adjective Estimable according to quantity; quantitative.
• Quantitively Dictionary Q - adverb So as to be measurable by quantity; quantitatively.
• Quantities Dictionary Q - pleural of Quantity.
• Quantivalence Dictionary Q - noun Valence.
• Quantivalent Dictionary Q - adjective Of or pertaining to quantivalence.
• Quanta Dictionary Q - pleural of Quantum.
• Quantum Dictionary Q - noun Quantity; amount.
• Quap Dictionary Q - intransitive verb To quaver.
• Quaquaversal Dictionary Q - adjective Turning or dipping in any or every direction.
• Quar Dictionary Q - noun A quarry.
• Quarantine Dictionary Q - noun A space of forty days; - used of Lent.
• Quarantined Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quarantine.
• Quarantining Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quarantine.
• Quarl Dictionary Q - noun A medusa, or jellyfish.
• Quarrel Dictionary Q - noun An arrow for a crossbow; - so named because it commonly had a square head.
• Quarreled Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quarrel.
• Quarrelled Dictionary Q - of Quarrel.
• Quarreling Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quarrel.
• Quarrelling Dictionary Q - of Quarrel.
• Quarrelet Dictionary Q - noun A little quarrel. See 1st Quarrel, 2.
• Quarrellous Dictionary Q - adjective Quarrelsome.
• Quarrelsome Dictionary Q - adjective Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.
• Quarried Dictionary Q - adjective Provided with prey.
• Quarrier Dictionary Q - noun A worker in a stone quarry.
• Quarry Dictionary Q - noun Same as 1st Quarrel.
• Quarries Dictionary Q - pleural of Quarry.
• Quarrying Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quarry.
• Quarry-faced Dictionary Q - adjective Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point; - said of stones.
• Quarrymen Dictionary Q - pleural of Quarry-man.
• Quarry-man Dictionary Q - noun A man who is engaged in quarrying stones; a quarrier.
• Quart Dictionary Q - noun The fourth part; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
• Quartan Dictionary Q - adjective Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.
• Quartane Dictionary Q - noun Butane, each molecule of which has four carbon atoms.
• Quartation Dictionary Q - noun The act, process, or result (in the process of parting) of alloying a button of nearly pure gold with enough silver to reduce the fineness so as to allow acids to attack and remove all metals except the gold; - called also inquartation. Compare Parting.
• Quartene Dictionary Q - noun Same as Butylene.
• Quartenylic Dictionary Q - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the acrylic acid series, metameric with crotonic acid, and obtained as a colorless liquid; - so called from having four carbon atoms in the molecule. Called also isocrotonic acid.
• Quarter Dictionary Q - noun One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a dollar, of a pound, of a yard, of an hour, etc.
• Quartered Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quartter.
• Quartering Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quartter.
• Quartter Dictionary Q - verb transitive To divide into four equal parts.
• Quarterage Dictionary Q - noun A quarterly allowance.
• Quarter-deck Dictionary Q - noun That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one.
• Quarterfoil Dictionary Q - noun An ornamental foliation having four lobes, or foils.
• Quarterhung Dictionary Q - adjective Having trunnions the axes of which lie below the bore; - said of a cannon.
• Quarterly Dictionary Q - adjective Containing, or consisting of, a fourth part; as, quarterly seasons.
• Quarterlies Dictionary Q - pleural of Quarterly.
• Quartermaster Dictionary Q - noun 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.
• Quartern Dictionary Q - noun A quarter. Specifically: (a) The fourth part of a pint; a gill. (b) The fourth part of a peck, or of a stone (14 ibs.).
• Quarteron Dictionary Q - noun A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred.
• Quarteroon Dictionary Q - noun A quadroon.
• Quarterpace Dictionary Q - noun A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only. See Halfpace.
• Quarter round Dictionary Q - An ovolo.
• Quarterstaves Dictionary Q - pleural of Quarterstaff.
• Quarterstaff Dictionary Q - noun 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 Dictionary Q - noun Alt. of Quartette.
• Quartette Dictionary Q - noun A composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument.
• Quartic Dictionary Q - adjective Of the fourth degree.
• Quartile Dictionary Q - noun Same as Quadrate.
• Quartine Dictionary Q - noun A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.
• Quarto Dictionary Q - adjective Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto.
• Quartos Dictionary Q - pleural of Quarto.
• Quartridge Dictionary Q - noun Quarterage.
• Quartz Dictionary Q - noun 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 Dictionary Q - adjective Consisting chiefly of quartz; containing quartz.
• Quartzite Dictionary Q - noun Massive quartz occurring as a rock; a metamorphosed sandstone; - called also quartz rock.
• Quartzoid Dictionary Q - noun A form of crystal common with quartz, consisting of two six-sided pyramids, base to base.
• Quartzose Dictionary Q - adjective Containing, or resembling, quartz; partaking of the nature or qualities of quartz.
• quartzous Dictionary Q - adjective Quarzose.
• Quartzy Dictionary Q - adjective Quartzose.
• Quas Dictionary Q - noun A kind of beer. Same as Quass.
• Quaschi Dictionary Q - noun Alt. of Quasje.
• Quasje Dictionary Q - noun The brown coati. See Coati.
• Quash Dictionary Q - noun Same as Squash.
• Quashed Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quash.
• Quashing Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quash.
• Quashee Dictionary Q - noun A negro of the West Indies.
• Quasi Dictionary Q - 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 Dictionary Q - noun The first Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.
• Quass Dictionary Q - noun A thin, sour beer, made by pouring warm water on rye or barley meal and letting it ferment, - much used by the Russians.
• Quassation Dictionary Q - noun The act of shaking, or the state of being shaken.
• Quassia Dictionary Q - noun 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 Dictionary Q - noun The bitter principle of quassia, extracted as a white crystalline substance; - formerly called quassite.
• Quat Dictionary Q - noun A pustule.
• Quata Dictionary Q - noun The coaita.
• Quatch Dictionary Q - adjective Squat; flat.
• Quater-cousin Dictionary Q - noun A cousin within the first four degrees of kindred.
• Quaternary Dictionary Q - adjective Consisting of four; by fours, or in sets of four.
• Quaternate Dictionary Q - adjective Composed of, or arranged in, sets of four; quaternary; as, quaternate leaves.
• Quaternion Dictionary Q - noun The number four.
• Quaternity Dictionary Q - noun The number four.
• Quateron Dictionary Q - noun See 2d Quarteron.
• Quatorzain Dictionary Q - noun A poem of fourteen lines; a sonnet.
• Quatorze Dictionary Q - noun The four aces, kings, queens, knaves, or tens, in the game of piquet; - so called because quatorze counts as fourteen points.
• Quatrain Dictionary Q - noun A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately.
• Quatre Dictionary Q - noun A card, die. or domino, having four spots, or pips.
• Quatrefeuille Dictionary Q - noun Alt. of Quatrefoil.
• Quatrefoil Dictionary Q - noun Same as Quarterfoil.
• Quatuor Dictionary Q - noun A quartet; - applied chiefly to instrumental compositions.
• Quave Dictionary Q - noun See Quaver.
• Quavemire Dictionary Q - noun See Quagmire.
• Quavered Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quaver.
• Quavering Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quaver.
• Quaver Dictionary Q - intransitive verb To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.
• Quaverer Dictionary Q - noun One who quavers; a warbler.
• Quay Dictionary Q - noun 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.
• Quayage Dictionary Q - noun Wharfage.
• Quayd Dictionary Q - p. p. of Quail.
• Que Dictionary Q - noun A half farthing.
• Queach Dictionary Q - noun A thick, bushy plot; a thicket.
• Queachy Dictionary Q - adjective Yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy ground; shaking; moving.
• Quean Dictionary Q - noun A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl.
• Queasily Dictionary Q - adverb In a queasy manner.
• Queasiness Dictionary Q - noun The state of being queasy; nausea; qualmishness; squeamishness.
• Queasy Dictionary Q - adjective Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; qualmish.
• Quebec group Dictionary Q - 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 Dictionary Q - noun 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 Dictionary Q - noun Sulphur.
• Quech Dictionary Q - intransitive verb Alt. of Queck.
• Queck Dictionary Q - intransitive verb A word occurring in a corrupt passage of Bacon's Essays, and probably meaning, to stir, to move.
• Queen Dictionary Q - noun The wife of a king.
• Queened Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Queen.
• Queening Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Queen.
• Queencraft Dictionary Q - noun Craft or skill in policy on the part of a queen.
• Queendom Dictionary Q - noun The dominion, condition, or character of a queen.
• Queenfish Dictionary Q - noun A California sciaenoid food fish (Seriphys politus). The back is bluish, and the sides and belly bright silvery. Called also kingfish.
• Queenhood Dictionary Q - noun The state, personality, or character of a queen; queenliness.
• Queenliness Dictionary Q - noun The quality of being queenly; the; characteristic of a queen; stateliness; eminence among women in attractions or power.
• Queenly Dictionary Q - adjective Like, becoming, or suitable to, a queen.
• Oueen-post Dictionary Q - noun One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post.
• Queenship Dictionary Q - noun The state, rank, or dignity of a queen.
• Queensland nut Dictionary Q - The nut of an Australian tree (Macadamia ternifolia). It is about an inch in diameter, and contains a single round edible seed, or sometimes two hemispherical seeds. So called from Queensland in Australia.
• Queen truss Dictionary Q - A truss framed with queen-posts; a queen-post truss.
• Queer Dictionary Q - adjective At variance with what is usual or normal; differing in some odd way from what is ordinary; odd; singular; strange; whimsical; as, a queer story or act.
• Queerish Dictionary Q - adjective Rather queer; somewhat singular.
• Queerly Dictionary Q - adverb In a queer or odd manner.
• Queerness Dictionary Q - noun The quality or state of being queer.
• Queest Dictionary Q - noun The European ringdove (Columba palumbus); the cushat.
• Quegh Dictionary Q - noun A drinking vessel. See Quaich.
• Queint Dictionary Q - adjective See Quaint.
• Queintise Dictionary Q - noun See Quaintise.
• Quelled Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quell.
• Quelling Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quell.
• Quell Dictionary Q - intransitive verb To die.
• Queller Dictionary Q - noun A killer; as, Jack the Giant Queller.
• Quellio Dictionary Q - noun A ruff for the neck.
• Quelquechose Dictionary Q - noun A trifle; a kickshaw.
• Queme Dictionary Q - verb transitive & intransitive To please.
• Quemeful Dictionary Q - adjective Kindly; merciful.
• Quenched Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quench.
• Quenching Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quench.
• Quench Dictionary Q - verb transitive To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; - said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle; to quench thirst, love, hate, etc.
• Quenchable Dictionary Q - adjective Capable of being quenched.
• Quencher Dictionary Q - noun One who, or that which, quenches.
• Quenchless Dictionary Q - adjective Incapable of being quenched; inextinguishable; as, quenchless fire or fury.
• Quenelle Dictionary Q - noun A kind of delicate forcemeat, commonly poached and used as a dish by itself or for garnishing.
• Quenouille training Dictionary Q - A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.
• Quercitannic Dictionary Q - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, a tannic acid found in oak bark and extracted as a yellowish brown amorphous substance.
• Quercite Dictionary Q - noun A white crystalline substance, C6H7(OH)5, found in acorns, the fruit of the oak (Quercus). It has a sweet taste, and is regarded as a pentacid alcohol.
• Quercitin Dictionary Q - noun A yellow crystalline substance, occurring quite widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, as is apple-tree bark, horse-chestnut leaves, etc., but originally obtained by the decomposition of quercitrin. Called also meletin.
• Quercitrin Dictionary Q - noun A glucoside extracted from the bark of the oak (Quercus) as a bitter citron-yellow crystalline substance, used as a pigment and called quercitron.
• Quercitron Dictionary Q - noun The yellow inner bark of the Quercus tinctoria, the American black oak, yellow oak, dyer's oak, or quercitron oak, a large forest tree growing from Maine to eastern Texas.
• Quercus Dictionary Q - noun A genus of trees constituted by the oak. See Oak.
• Querele Dictionary Q - noun A complaint to a court. See Audita Querela.
• Querent Dictionary Q - noun A complainant; a plaintiff.
• Quermonious Dictionary Q - adjective Complaining; querulous; apt to complain.
• Querimony Dictionary Q - noun A complaint or complaining.
• Querist Dictionary Q - noun One who inquires, or asks questions.
• Querken Dictionary Q - verb transitive To stifle or choke.
• Querl Dictionary Q - verb transitive To twirl; to turn or wind round; to coil; as, to querl a cord, thread, or rope.
• Quern Dictionary Q - noun A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; - used before the invention of windmills and watermills.
• Querpo Dictionary Q - noun The inner or body garments taken together. See Cuerpo.
• Querquedule Dictionary Q - noun A teal.
• Querry Dictionary Q - noun A groom; an equerry.
• Querulential Dictionary Q - adjective Querulous.
• Querulous Dictionary Q - verb Given to quarreling; quarrelsome.
• Queries Dictionary Q - pleural of Query.
• Query Dictionary Q - noun A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.
• Queried Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Query.
• Querying Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Query.
• Quesal Dictionary Q - noun The long-tailed, or resplendent, trogon (Pharomachus mocinno, formerly Trogon resplendens), native of Southern Mexico and Central America. Called also quetzal, and golden trogon.
• Quest Dictionary Q - noun The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.
• Questant Dictionary Q - noun One who undertakes a quest; a seeker.
• Quester Dictionary Q - noun One who seeks; a seeker.
• Question Dictionary Q - noun The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.
• Questioned Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Question.
• Questioning Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Question.
• Questionability Dictionary Q - noun The state or condition of being questionable.
• Questionable Dictionary Q - adjective Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry.
• Questionableness Dictionary Q - noun The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious.
• Questionably Dictionary Q - adverb In a questionable manner.
• Questionary Dictionary Q - adjective Inquiring; asking questions; testing.
• Questioner Dictionary Q - noun One who asks questions; an inquirer.
• Questionist Dictionary Q - noun A questioner; an inquirer.
• Questionless Dictionary Q - adjective Unquestioning; incurious.
• Questmen Dictionary Q - pleural of Questman.
• Questman Dictionary Q - noun One legally empowered to make quest of certain matters, esp. of abuses of weights and measures.
• Questmonger Dictionary Q - noun One who lays informations, and encourages petty lawsuits.
• Questor Dictionary Q - noun An officer who had the management of the public treasure; a receiver of taxes, tribute, etc.; treasurer of state.
• Questorship Dictionary Q - noun The office, or the term of office, of a questor.
• Questrist Dictionary Q - noun A seeker; a pursuer.
• Questuary Dictionary Q - adjective Studious of profit.
• Quet Dictionary Q - noun The common guillemot.
• Queue Dictionary Q - noun A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail.
• Quey Dictionary Q - noun A heifer.
• Quib Dictionary Q - noun A quip; a gibe.
• Quibble Dictionary Q - noun A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.
• Quibbled Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quibble.
• Quibbling Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quibble.
• Quibbler Dictionary Q - noun One who quibbles; a caviler; also, a punster.
• Quibblingly Dictionary Q - adverb Triflingly; evasively.
• Quica Dictionary Q - noun A small South American opossum (Didelphys quica), native of Guiana and Brazil. It feeds upon insects, small birds, and fruit.
• Quice Dictionary Q - noun See Queest.
• Quich Dictionary Q - intransitive verb To stir.
• Quick Dictionary Q - superlative Alive; living; animate; - opposed to dead or inanimate.
• Quickbeam Dictionary Q - noun See Quicken tree.
• quickened Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quicken.
• Quickening Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quicken.
• Quicken Dictionary Q - adjective To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite.
• Quickener Dictionary Q - noun One who, or that which, quickens.
• Quickens Dictionary Q - noun Quitch grass.
• Quicken tree Dictionary Q - The European rowan tree; - called also quickbeam, and quickenbeam. See Rowan tree.
• Quickhatch Dictionary Q - noun The wolverine.
• Quicklime Dictionary Q - adjective Calcium oxide; unslacked lime; - so called because when wet it develops great heat. See 4th Lime, 2.
• Quickly Dictionary Q - adverb Speedily; with haste or celerity; soon; without delay; quick.
• Quickness Dictionary Q - noun The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.
• Quicksand Dictionary Q - noun 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 Dictionary Q - adjective Acute of smell.
• Quickset Dictionary Q - noun A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn.
• Quick-sighted Dictionary Q - adjective Having quick sight or acute discernment; quick to see or to discern.
• Quicksilver Dictionary Q - adjective The metal mercury; - so called from its resemblance to liquid silver.
• Quicksilvered Dictionary Q - adjective Overlaid with quicksilver, or with an amalgam of quicksilver and tinfoil.
• Quicksilvering Dictionary Q - noun The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.
• Quickstep Dictionary Q - noun A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of dancing.
• Quick-witted Dictionary Q - adjective Having ready wit.
• Quick-wittedness Dictionary Q - noun Readiness of wit.
• Quickwork Dictionary Q - noun All the submerged section of a vessel's planking.
• Quid Dictionary Q - noun A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco.
• Quidam Dictionary Q - noun Somebody; one unknown.
• Quiddany Dictionary Q - noun A confection of quinces, in consistency between a sirup and marmalade.
• Quiddative Dictionary Q - adjective Constituting, or containing, the essence of a thing; quidditative.
• Quiddit Dictionary Q - noun A subtilty; an equivocation.
• Quidditative Dictionary Q - adjective Quiddative.
• Quiddities Dictionary Q - pleural of Quiddity.
• Quiddity Dictionary Q - noun The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or, What is it?.
• Quiddled Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quiddle.
• Quiddling Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quiddle.
• Quiddle Dictionary Q - intransitive verb To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.
• Quiddler Dictionary Q - noun One who wastes his energy about trifles.
• Quidnunc Dictionary Q - noun One who is curious to know everything that passes; one who knows, or pretends to know, all that is going on.
• Quiesced Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quiesce.
• Quiescing Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quiesce.
• Quiesce Dictionary Q - adjective & noun To be silent, as a letter; to have no sound.
• Quiescence Dictionary Q - noun Alt. of Quiescency.
• Quiescency Dictionary Q - noun The state or quality of being quiescent.
• Quiescent Dictionary Q - adjective Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; not moving; as, a quiescent body or fluid.
• Quiescently Dictionary Q - adverb In a quiescent manner.
• Quiet Dictionary Q - adjective In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air.
• Quieted Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quiet.
• Quieting Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quiet.
• Quietage Dictionary Q - noun Quietness.
• Quieter Dictionary Q - noun One who, or that which, quiets.
• Quietism Dictionary Q - noun Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction.
• Quietist Dictionary Q - noun One of a sect of mystics originated in the seventeenth century by Molinos, a Spanish priest living in Rome. See Quietism.
• Quietistic Dictionary Q - adjective Of or pertaining to the Quietists, or to Quietism.
• Quietly Dictionary Q - adverb In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly.
• Quietness Dictionary Q - noun The quality or state of being quiet; freedom from noise, agitation, disturbance, or excitement; stillness; tranquillity; calmness.
• Quietsome Dictionary Q - adjective Calm; still.
• Quietude Dictionary Q - noun Rest; repose; quiet; tranquillity.
• Quietus Dictionary Q - adjective Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.
• Quill Dictionary Q - noun One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather.
• Quilled Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quill.
• Quilling Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quill.
• Quillaia bark Dictionary Q - The bark of a rosaceous tree (Quillaja Saponaria), native of Chili. The bark is finely laminated, and very heavy with alkaline substances, and is used commonly by the Chilians instead of soap. Also called soap bark.
• Quillback Dictionary Q - noun An American fresh-water fish (Ictiobus, / Carpiodes, cyprinus); - called also carp sucker, sailfish, spearfish, and skimback.
• Quillet Dictionary Q - noun Subtilty; nicety; quibble.
• Quillwort Dictionary Q - noun Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes, 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.
• Quilt Dictionary Q - noun Anything that is quilted; esp., a quilted bed cover, or a skirt worn by women; any cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton, etc., between two cloths and stitching them together; also, any outer bed cover.
• Quilted Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quilt.
• Quilting Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quilt.
• Quilter Dictionary Q - noun One who, or that which, quilts.
• Quin Dictionary Q - noun A European scallop (Pecten opercularis), used as food.
• Quinaldine Dictionary Q - noun A colorless liquid of a slightly pungent odor, C9H6N.CH3, first obtained as a condensation product of aldehyde and aniline, and regarded as a derivative of quinoline; - called also methyl quinoline.
• Quinary Dictionary Q - adjective Consisting of five; arranged by fives.
• Quiname Dictionary Q - adjective Growing in sets of five; - said especially of leaves composed of five leaflets set at the end of a common petiole.
• Quinate Dictionary Q - noun A salt of quinic acid.
• Quinazol Dictionary Q - noun A complex nitrogenous base related to cinnoline.
• Quince Dictionary Q - noun The fruit of a shrub (Cydonia vulgaris) belonging to the same tribe as the apple. It somewhat resembles an apple, but differs in having many seeds in each carpel. It has hard flesh of high flavor, but very acid, and is largely used for marmalade, jelly, and preserves.
• Quincewort Dictionary Q - noun The squinancy. Called also quinsywort.
• Quinch Dictionary Q - intransitive verb To stir; to wince.
• Quincuncial Dictionary Q - Having the form of a quincunx.
• Quincuncially Dictionary Q - adverb In the manner or order of a quincunx.
• Quincunx Dictionary Q - noun An arrangement of things by fives in a square or a rectangle, one being placed at each corner and one in the middle; especially, such an arrangement of trees repeated indefinitely, so as to form a regular group with rows running in various directions.
• Quindecagon Dictionary Q - noun A plane figure with fifteen angles, and consequently fifteen sides.
• Quindecemvirs Dictionary Q - pleural of Quindecemvir.
• Quindecemviri Dictionary Q - pleural of Quindecemvir.
• Quindecemvir Dictionary Q - noun One of a sacerdotal college of fifteen men whose chief duty was to take care of the Sibylline books.
• Quindecemvirate Dictionary Q - noun The body or office of the quindecemviri.
• Quindecone Dictionary Q - noun An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C15H26, of the valylene series, produced artificially as an oily liquid.
• Quindecylic Dictionary Q - noun Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the fatty acid series, containing fifteen atoms of carbon; called also pentadecylic acid.
• Quindem Dictionary Q - noun A fifteenth part.
• Quindism Dictionary Q - noun A fifteenth.
• Quinhydrone Dictionary Q - noun A green crystalline substance formed by the union of quinone with hydroquinone, or as an intermediate product in the oxidation of hydroquinone or the reduction of quinone.
• Quinia Dictionary Q - noun Quinine.
• Quinible Dictionary Q - noun An interval of a fifth; also, a part sung with such intervals.
• Quinic Dictionary Q - adjective 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 Dictionary Q - noun An uncrystallizable alkaloid obtained by the action of heat from quinine, with which it is isomeric.
• Quinidine Dictionary Q - noun 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.
• Quinine Dictionary Q - noun An alkaloid extracted from the bark of several species of cinchona (esp. Cinchona Calisaya) as a bitter white crystalline substance, C20H24N2O2. Hence, by extension (Med.), any of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc.
• Quininic Dictionary Q - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid obtained as a yellow crystalline substance by the oxidation of quinine.
• Quininism Dictionary Q - noun Alt. of Quinism.
• Quinism Dictionary Q - noun See Cinchonism.
• Quinizarin Dictionary Q - A yellow crystalline substance produced artificially. It is isomeric with alizarin.
• Quinizine Dictionary Q - noun any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, certain of which are used as antipyretics.
• Quinnat Dictionary Q - noun The California salmon (Oncorhynchus choicha); - called also chouicha, king salmon, chinnook salmon, and Sacramento salmon. It is of great commercial importance.
• Quinoa Dictionary Q - noun The seeds of a kind of goosewort (Chenopodium Quinoa), used in Chili and Peru for making porridge or cakes; also, food thus made.
• Quinogen Dictionary Q - noun A hypothetical radical of quinine and related alkaloids.
• Quinoidine Dictionary Q - noun A brownish resinous substance obtained as a by-product in the treatment of cinchona bark. It consists of a mixture of several alkaloids.
• Quinoline Dictionary Q - noun A nitrogenous base, C9H7N obtained as a pungent colorless liquid by the distillation of alkaloids, bones, coal tar, etc. It the nucleus of many organic bodies, especially of certain alkaloids and related substances; hence, by extension, any one of the series of alkaloidal bases of which quinoline proper is the type.
• Quinologist Dictionary Q - noun One who is versed in quinology.
• Quinology Dictionary Q - noun The science which treats of the cultivation of the cinchona, and of its use in medicine.
• Quinone Dictionary Q - noun A crystalline substance, C6H4O2 (called also benzoketone), first obtained by the oxidation of quinic acid and regarded as a double ketone; also, by extension, any one of the series of which quinone proper is the type.
• Quinovic Dictionary Q - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline acid obtained from some varieties of cinchona bark.
• Quinovin Dictionary Q - noun An amorphous bitter glucoside derived from cinchona and other barks. Called also quinova bitter, and quinova.
• Quinoxaline Dictionary Q - noun Any one of a series of complex nitrogenous bases obtained by the union of certain aniline derivatives with glyoxal or with certain ketones.
• Quinoxyl Dictionary Q - noun The hypothetical radical of certain quinone derivatives related to rhodizonic acid.
• Quinoyl Dictionary Q - noun A radical of which quinone is the hydride, analogous to phenyl.
• Quinquagesima Dictionary Q - adjective Fiftieth.
• Quinquangular Dictionary Q - adjective Having five angles or corners.
• Quinquarticular Dictionary Q - adjective Relating to the five articles or points; as, the quinquarticular controversy between Arminians and Calvinists.
• Quinque- Dictionary Q - A combining form meaning five, five times, fivefold; as, quinquefid, five-cleft; quinquedentate, five-toothed.
• Quinqueangled Dictionary Q - adjective Having five angles; quinquangular.
• Quinquedentate Dictionary Q - adjective Alt. of Quinquedentated.
• Quinquedentated Dictionary Q - adjective Five-toothed; as, a quinquedentate leaf.
• Quinquefarious Dictionary Q - adjective Arranged in five vertical rows; pentastichous.
• Quinquefid Dictionary Q - adjective Sharply cut about halfway to the middle or base into five segments; as, a quinquefid leaf or corolla.
• Quinquefoliate Dictionary Q - adjective Alt. of Quinquefoliated.
• Quinquefoliated Dictionary Q - adjective Having five leaves or leaflets.
• Quinque foliolate Dictionary Q - adjective Having five leaflets.
• Quinqueliteral Dictionary Q - adjective Consisting of five letters.
• Quinquelobate Dictionary Q - adjective Alt. of Quinquelobared.
• Quinquelobared Dictionary Q - adjective Cut less than halfway into portions, usually somewhat rounded; five-lobed; as, a quinquelobate leaf or corolla.
• Quinquelobed Dictionary Q - adjective Same as Quinquelobate.
• Quinquelocular Dictionary Q - adjective Having five cells or loculi; five-celled; as, a quinquelocular pericarp.
• Quinquenerved Dictionary Q - adjective Having five nerves; - said of a leaf with five nearly equal nerves or ribs rising from the end of the petiole.
• Quinquennalia Dictionary Q - noun plural Public games celebrated every five years.
• Quinquennial Dictionary Q - adjective Occurring once in five years, or at the end of every five years; also, lasting five years. A quinquennial event.
• Quinquennium Dictionary Q - noun Space of five years.
• Quinquepartite Dictionary Q - adjective Consisting of five parts.
• Quinquereme Dictionary Q - noun A galley having five benches or banks of oars; as, an Athenian quinquereme.
• Quinquesyllable Dictionary Q - noun A word of five syllables.
• Quinquevalve Dictionary Q - adjective Alt. of Quinquevalvular.
• Quinquevalvular Dictionary Q - adjective Having five valves, as a pericarp.
• Quinquevirs Dictionary Q - pleural of Quinquevir.
• Quinqueviri Dictionary Q - pleural of Quinquevir.
• Quinquevir Dictionary Q - noun One of five commissioners appointed for some special object.
• Quinquina Dictionary Q - noun Peruvian bark.
• Quinquivalent Dictionary Q - adjective Same as Pentavalent.
• Quinsy Dictionary Q - noun An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; - called also squinancy, and squinzey.
• Quint Dictionary Q - noun A set or sequence of five, as in piquet.
• Quintain Dictionary Q - noun An object to be tilted at; - called also quintel.
• Quintal Dictionary Q - noun A hundredweight, either 112 or 100 pounds, according to the scale used. Cf. Cental.
• Quintan Dictionary Q - adjective Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever.
• Quintel Dictionary Q - noun See Quintain.
• Quintessence Dictionary Q - noun The fifth or last and highest essence or power in a natural body. See Ferment oils, under Ferment.
• Quintessential Dictionary Q - adjective Of the nature of a quintessence; purest.
• Quintet Dictionary Q - noun Alt. of Quintette.
• Quintette Dictionary Q - noun A composition for five voices or instruments; also, the set of five persons who sing or play five-part music.
• Quintic Dictionary Q - adjective Of the fifth degree or order.
• Quintile Dictionary Q - noun The aspect of planets when separated the fifth part of the zodiac, or 72.
• Quintilllion Dictionary Q - noun According to the French notation, which is used on the Continent and in America, the cube of a million, or a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a number produced by involving a million to the fifth power, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.
• Quintin Dictionary Q - noun See Quintain.
• Quintine Dictionary Q - noun The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument. Cf. Quartine, and Tercine.
• Quintole Dictionary Q - noun A group of five notes to be played or sung in the time of four of the same species.
• Quintuple Dictionary Q - adjective Multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount; fivefold.
• Quintupled Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quintuple.
• Quintupling Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quintuple.
• Quittuple-nerved Dictionary Q - adjective Alt. of Quintuple-ribbed.
• Quintuple-ribbed Dictionary Q - adjective The same as Quinquenerved.
• Quinzaine Dictionary Q - noun The fifteenth day after a feast day, including both in the reckoning.
• Quinze Dictionary Q - noun A game at cards in which the object is to make fifteen points.
• Quip Dictionary Q - noun A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a gibe.
• Quipped Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quip.
• Quipping Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quip.
• Quipo Dictionary Q - noun Same as Quipu.
• Quipus Dictionary Q - pleural of Quipu.
• Quipu Dictionary Q - noun A contrivance employed by the ancient Peruvians, Mexicans, etc., as a substitute for writing and figures, consisting of a main cord, from which hung at certain distances smaller cords of various colors, each having a special meaning, as silver, gold, corn, soldiers. etc. Single, double, and triple knots were tied in the smaller cords, representing definite numbers. It was chiefly used for arithmetical purposes, and to register important facts and events.
• Quirboilly Dictionary Q - noun Leather softened by boiling so as to take any required shape. Upon drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor.
• Quire Dictionary Q - noun See Choir.
• Quirister Dictionary Q - noun A chorister. See Chorister.
• Quiritation Dictionary Q - noun A crying for help.
• Quirite Dictionary Q - noun One of the Quirites.
• Quirites Dictionary Q - noun plural Roman citizens.
• Quirk Dictionary Q - noun A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger.
• Quirked Dictionary Q - adjective Having, or formed with, a quirk or quirks.
• Quirkish Dictionary Q - adjective Consisting of quirks; resembling a quirk.
• Quirky Dictionary Q - adjective Full of quirks; tricky; as, a quirky lawyer.
• Quirl Dictionary Q - noun & verb See Querl.
• Quirpele Dictionary Q - noun The Indian ferret.
• Quirt Dictionary Q - noun A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.
• Quish Dictionary Q - noun See Cuish.
• Quit Dictionary Q - noun Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.
• Quitted Dictionary Q - of Quit.
• Quitting Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quit.
• Quitch Dictionary Q - noun Same as Quitch grass.
• Quitch grass Dictionary Q - A perennial grass (Agropyrum repens) having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called couch grass, quick grass, quick grass, twitch grass. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Quitclaim Dictionary Q - noun A release or relinquishment of a claim; a deed of release; an instrument by which some right, title, interest, or claim, which one person has, or is supposed to have, in or to an estate held by himself or another, is released or relinquished, the grantor generally covenanting only against persons who claim under himself.
• Quitclaimed Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quitclaim.
• Quitclaiming Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quitclaim.
• Quite Dictionary Q - verb transitive & intransitive See Quit.
• Quitly Dictionary Q - adverb Quite.
• Quitrent Dictionary Q - noun A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service.
• Quits Dictionary Q - interjection See the Note under Quit, a.
• Quittable Dictionary Q - adjective Capable of being quitted.
• Quittal Dictionary Q - noun Return; requital; quittance.
• Quittance Dictionary Q - verb transitive Discharge from a debt or an obligation; acquittance.
• Quitter Dictionary Q - noun One who quits.
• Quittor Dictionary Q - noun A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone.
• Quitture Dictionary Q - noun A discharge; an issue.
• Quiver Dictionary Q - adjective Nimble; active.
• Quivered Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quiver.
• Quivering Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quiver.
• Quiveringly Dictionary Q - adverb With quivering motion.
• Qui vive Dictionary Q - The challenge of a French sentinel, or patrol; - used like the English challenge: "Who comes there?".
• Quixotic Dictionary Q - adjective Like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded.
• Quixotically Dictionary Q - adverb In a quixotic way.
• Quixotism Dictionary Q - noun 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 Don Quixote in knight-errantry.
• Quixotry Dictionary Q - noun Quixotism; visionary schemes.
• Quiz Dictionary Q - noun A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.
• Quizzed Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quiz.
• Quizzing Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quiz.
• Quizzer Dictionary Q - noun One who quizzes; a quiz.
• Quizzical Dictionary Q - adjective Relating to quizzing: given to quizzing; of the nature of a quiz; farcical; sportive.
• Quizzism Dictionary Q - noun The act or habit of quizzing.
• Quob Dictionary Q - intransitive verb To throb; to quiver.
• Quod Dictionary Q - noun A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; hence, a prison.
• Quoddies Dictionary Q - noun plural Herring taken and cured or smoked near Quoddy Head, Maine, or near the entrance of Passamaquoddy Ray.
• Quodlibet Dictionary Q - noun A nice point; a subtilty; a debatable point.
• Quodlibetarian Dictionary Q - noun One who discusses any subject at pleasure.
• Quodlibetical Dictionary Q - adjective Not restricted to a particular subject; discussed for curiosity or entertainment.
• Quoif Dictionary Q - noun & transitive verb See Coif.
• Quoifffure Dictionary Q - noun See Coiffure.
• Quoil Dictionary Q - noun See Coil.
• Quoin Dictionary Q - noun Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked.
• Quoit Dictionary Q - noun 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.
• Quoke Dictionary Q - imp. of Quake.
• Quoll Dictionary Q - noun A marsupial of Australia (Dasyurus macrurus), about the size of a cat.
• Quondam Dictionary Q - adjective Having been formerly; former; sometime.
• Quook Dictionary Q - imp. of Quake.
• Quop Dictionary Q - intransitive verb See Quob.
• Quorum Dictionary Q - noun 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 Dictionary Q - noun A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.
• Quotable Dictionary Q - adjective Capable or worthy of being quoted; as, a quotable writer; a quotable sentence.
• Quotation Dictionary Q - noun The act of quoting or citing.
• Quotationist Dictionary Q - noun One who makes, or is given to making, quotations.
• Quoted Dictionary Q - imperative & past particle of Quote.
• Quoting Dictionary Q - past particle & verb noun of Quote.
• Quote Dictionary Q - verb transitive 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.
• Quoter Dictionary Q - noun One who quotes the words of another.
• Quoth Dictionary Q - verb transitive 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 Dictionary Q - interjection Indeed; forsooth.
• Quotidian Dictionary Q - adjective Occurring or returning daily; as, a quotidian fever.
• Quotient Dictionary Q - noun 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.
• Quotiety Dictionary Q - noun The relation of an object to number.
• Quotum Dictionary Q - noun Part or proportion; quota.
• Quo warranto Dictionary Q - A writ brought before a proper tribunal, to inquire by what warrant a person or a corporation acts, or exercises certain powers.
• Quran Dictionary Q - noun See Koran.

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