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.

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.

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.

The office, or the term of office, of a questor.

A seeker; a pursuer.

One employed to collect profits.

The common guillemot.

To fasten, as hair, in a queue.

A heifer.

A quip; a gibe.

To evade the point in question by artifice, play upon words, caviling, or by raising any insignificant or impertinent question or point; to trifle in argument or discourse; to equivocate.

One who quibbles; a caviler; also, a punster.

Triflingly; evasively.

A small South American opossum (Didelphys quica), native of Guiana and Brazil. It feeds upon insects, small birds, and fruit.

See Queest.

To stir.

Designating, or pertaining to, a linguistic stock of South American Indians, including the majority of the civilized tribes of the ancient Peruvian Empire with some wild tribes never subjugated by the Incas. Most of these Indians are short, but heavy and strong. They are brachycephalic and of remarkably low cranial capacity. Nevertheless, they represent one of the highest of native American civilizations, characterized by agricultural, military, and administrative skill rather than by science or literature, although they were adept potters, weavers, and goldsmiths, and preserved by the aid of the mnemonic quipu a body of legendary lore in part written down since the introduction of writing.

To revive; to quicken; to be or become alive.