A word consisting of four syllables.

The quality or state of being quadrivalent; tetravalence.

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.

A door, shutter, or the like, having four folds.

Having four valves; quadrivalve.

One of the four /liberal arts/ making up the quadrivium.

The four /liberal arts,/ arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- so called by the schoolmen. See Trivium.

The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person quarter-blooded.

A tetroxide.

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.

One of the Quadrumana.

Having four hands; of or pertaining to the Quadrumana.

An animal having four feet, as most mammals and reptiles; -- often restricted to the mammals.

Having four feet; of or pertaining to a quadruped.

An airplane with four superposed main supporting surfaces. Contrasted with triplane biplane and monoplane. They are now used only for hobbyist or historical activities.

To be multiplied by four; to increase fourfold; to become four times as much.

A collection or combination of four of a kind.

Fourfold; folded or doubled twice.

To make fourfold; to double twice; to quadruple.

The act of making fourfold; a taking four times the simple sum or amount.

To a fourfold quantity; so as to be, or cause to be, quadruple; as, to be quadruply recompensed.

Inquire; question; see; -- used to signify doubt or to suggest investigation.

Same as Questor.

To drink largely or luxuriously.

One who quaffs, or drinks largely.

A quagmire.

A South African wild ass (Equus quagga syn. 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. The species became extinct in the late 1800's, largely due to excessive hunting.

Of the nature of a quagmire; yielding or trembling under the foot, as soft, wet earth; spongy; boggy.

Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet.

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.

A small shallow cup or drinking vessel.

To curdle; to coagulate, as milk.

The upland plover.

Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily.

Craft; subtlety; cunning.

In a quaint manner.

The quality of being quaint.

A quire; a book.

A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.

One who quakes.

A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends.

Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.

The peculiar character, manners, tenets, etc., of the Quakers.

Like a Quaker.

Resembling Quakers; Quakerlike; Quakerish.

Quakerism.

A wagtail.

The state of being quaky; liability to quake.

a. n. from Quake, v.

In a quaking manner; fearfully.

Shaky, or tremulous; quaking.

Capable of being qualified; abatable; modifiable.

The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified.

That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term or statement.

An officer whose business it is to examine and prepare causes for trial in the ecclesiastical courts.

Fitted by accomplishments or endowments.

In the way of qualification; with modification or qualification.

The state of being qualified.

One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains.

To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment.

Furnished with qualities; endowed.

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.

Sickness; disease; pestilence; death.

Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea or sickly languor; inclined to vomit.

See Camass.

Formerly, a genus of plants including the cypress vine (Quamoclit vulgaris, now called Ipom/a Quamoclit). The genus is now merged in Ipom/a.

To bring into a state of uncertainty, perplexity, or difficulty.

The edible drupaceous fruit of an Australian tree (Fusanus acuminatus) of the Sandalwood family; -- called also quandang.

The old squaw.

A flat file having the handle at one side, so as to be used like a plane.

A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.

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.

Modification by a reference to quantity; the introduction of the element of quantity.

To modify or qualify with respect to quantity; to determine, fix or express the quantity of; to rate.

Relating to quantity.

Estimable according to quantity; quantitative.

So as to be measurable by quantity; quantitatively.

Valence.

Of or pertaining to quantivalence.

Quantity; amount.

To quaver.

Turning or dipping in any or every direction.

A quarry.

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.

A medusa, or jellyfish.

One who quarrels or wrangles; one who is quarrelsome.

A little quarrel. See 1st Quarrel, 2.

Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood.

Quarrelsome.

Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.

Provided with prey.

A worker in a stone quarry.

To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.

Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point; -- said of stones.

A man who is engaged in quarrying stones; a quarrier.

In cards, four successive cards of the same suit. Cf. Tierce, 4.

An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days.

Butane, each molecule of which has four carbon atoms.

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.

Same as 2d Carte.

Same as Butylene.

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.

To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels.

That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one.

To saw (a log) into quarters; specif., to saw into quarters and then into boards, as by cutting alternately from each face of a quarter, to secure lumber that will warp relatively little or show the grain advantageously.

A quarterly allowance.

To play the position of quarterback, in a football game.

A play in football in which the quarterback carries the ball directly ahead, immediately or shortly after receiving the snap, sometimes after faking a handoff.

Divided into four equal parts or quarters; separated into four parts or regions.

An ornamental foliation having four lobes, or foils.

Having trunnions the axes of which lie below the bore; -- said of a cannon.

A station.

By quarters; once in a quarter of a year; as, the returns are made quarterly.

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.

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.).

A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred.

A quadroon.

A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only. See Halfpace.

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.

A composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument. The set of four person who perform a piece of music in four parts.