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.

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

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.

One who seeks; a seeker.

To inquire of by asking questions; to examine by interrogatories; as, to question a witness.

The state or condition of being questionable.

Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry.

The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious.

In a questionable manner.

One who makes it his business to seek after relics and carry them about for sale.

One who asks questions; an inquirer.

A questioner; an inquirer.

Unquestioning; incurious.

Beyond a question or doubt; doubtless; certainly.

same as Questionary.

One legally empowered to make quest of certain matters, esp. of abuses of weights and measures. A churchwarden's assistant; a sidesman. A collector of parish rents.

One who lays informations, and encourages petty lawsuits.

An officer who had the management of the public treasure; a receiver of taxes, tribute, etc.; treasurer of state.