Relating to quality; having the character of quality.

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 quantic of the fourth degree. See Quantic. A curve or surface whose equation is of the fourth degree in the variables.

Same as Quadrate.

A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.

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.

Quarterage.

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.

Consisting chiefly of quartz; containing quartz.

Massive quartz occurring as a rock; a metamorphosed sandstone; -- called also quartz rock.

A form of crystal common with quartz, consisting of two six-sided pyramids, base to base.

Containing, or resembling, quartz; partaking of the nature or qualities of quartz.

Quarzose.

Quartzose.

A kind of beer. Same as Quass.

To be shaken, or dashed about, with noise.

A negro of the West Indies.

The main character in Victor Hugo's novel /The Hunchback of Notre Dame/. The novel was first published in French under the title /Notre Dame de Paris/. Quasimodo is a deformed and ugly hunchback who is bellringer at the cathedral of Notre Dame during the reign of Louis XI. He rescues a gypsy girl Esmeralda, falsely convicted of a crime and about to be excuted, and carries her to sanctuary in the cathedral. Near the end of the book he dies while again rescuing her from an abductor. In a movie made in 1923 Quasimodo was portrayed by the actor Lon Chaney, whose impressive makeup and superb acting drew many plaudits. His shout of /Sanctuary! Sanctuary!/ when rescuing Esmeralda is still sometimes imitated for humorous or dramatic effect.

The brown coati. See Coati.

A thin, sour beer, made by pouring warm water on rye or barley meal and letting it ferment, -- much used by the Russians. Called also kvass.

The act of shaking, or the state of being shaken.

The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarube/, as Quassia amara, Picr/na excelsa, and Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer.

The bitter principle of quassia, extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called quassite.

To satiate; to satisfy.

The coaita.

Squat; flat.

A cousin within the first four degrees of kindred.

The number four.

Composed of, or arranged in, sets of four; quaternary; as, quaternate leaves.

To divide into quaternions, files, or companies.

The number four.

See 2d Quarteron.

A poem of fourteen lines; a sonnet.

The four aces, kings, queens, knaves, or tens, in the game of piquet; -- so called because quatorze counts as fourteen points.

A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately.

A card, die. or domino, having four spots, or pips

Same as Quarterfoil.

The fifteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the quattrocento; quattrocento style.

A quartet; -- applied chiefly to instrumental compositions.

To quaver.

See Quagmire.

A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music.

One who quavers; a warbler.

To furnish with quays.

Wharfage.

p. p. of Quail.

A measure of information, being the information that can be stored in one object that can take a quantum state of 0 or 1. It differs from the classical bit of information theory in that quantum states may assume many intermediate states that are superpositions of the individual discrete states; the quantum states of multiple quantum systems may also be correlated by a phenomenon called entanglement, increasing the complexity of the information storage and retrieval process. See 4th bit, n.

A half farthing.

To stir; to move. See Quick, v. i.

Yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy ground; shaking; moving.

A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl.

In a queasy manner.

The state of being queasy; nausea; qualmishness; squeamishness.

Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; qualmish.

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.

Sulphur.

A word occurring in a corrupt passage of Bacon's Essays, and probably meaning, to stir, to move.

To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn.

One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post.

Craft or skill in policy on the part of a queen.

The dominion, condition, or character of a queen.

A California sci/noid food fish (Seriphys politus). The back is bluish, and the sides and belly bright silvery. Called also kingfish.