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.

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.

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.

The state, personality, or character of a queen; queenliness.

Any one of several kinds of apples, as summer queening, scarlet queening, and early queening. An apple called the queening was cultivated in England two hundred years ago.

The quality of being queenly; the; characteristic of a queen; stateliness; eminence among women in attractions or power.

Like, becoming, or suitable to, a queen.

The state, rank, or dignity of a queen.

To puzzle.

Rather queer; somewhat singular.

In a queer or odd manner.

The quality or state of being queer.

The European ringdove (Columba palumbus); the cushat.

A drinking vessel. See Quaich.

imp. p. p. of Quench.

See Quaintise.

Murder.

A killer; as, Jack the Giant Queller.

A ruff for the neck.

A trifle; a kickshaw.

To please.

Kindly; merciful.

To become extinguished; to go out; to become calm or cool.

Capable of being quenched.

One who, or that which, quenches.

Incapable of being quenched; inextinguishable; as, quenchless fire or fury.

A kind of delicate forcemeat, commonly poached and used as a dish by itself or for garnishing.

Pertaining to, or designating, a tannic acid found in oak bark and extracted as a yellowish brown amorphous substance.

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.

A yellow crystalline substance, occurring quite widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, as in apple-tree bark, horse-chestnut leaves, etc., but originally obtained by the decomposition of quercitrin. Called also meletin.

A glucoside extracted from the bark of the oak (Quercus) as a bitter citron-yellow crystalline substance, used as a pigment and called quercitron.

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.

A genus of trees constituted by the oak. See Oak.

A complaint to a court. See Audita Querela.

An inquirer.

Complaining; querulous; apt to complain.

A complaint or complaining.

One who inquires, or asks questions.

To stifle or choke.

A coil; a twirl; as, the qwerl of hair on the fore leg of a blooded horse.

A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills.

The inner or body garments taken together. See Cuerpo.

A teal. The pintail duck.

A groom; an equerry.

Querulous.

Given to quarreling; quarrelsome.

To put questions about; to elicit by questioning; to inquire into; as, to query the items or the amount; to query the motive or the fact.

The long-tailed, or resplendent, trogon (Pharomachus mocinno, formerly Trogon resplendens), native of Southern Mexico and Central America. Called also quetzal, and golden trogon.

To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg.

One who undertakes a quest; a seeker.