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.

To freeze rapidly so as to preserve the natural juices and flavors; -- usually used of food or other biologicql matter.

Acute of smell.

Having quick sight or acute discernment; quick to see or to discern.

Having ready wit

Readiness of wit.

See Quicken tree.

To come to life; to become alive; to become vivified or enlivened; hence, to exhibit signs of life; to move, as the fetus in the womb.

The act or process of making or of becoming quick.

Quitch grass.

The wolverine.

Calcium oxide; unslacked lime; -- so called because when wet it develops great heat. See 4th Lime, 2.

Speedily; with haste or celerity; soon; without delay; quick.

The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.

Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure; especially, a deep mass of loose or moving sand mixed with water, sometimes found at the mouth of a river or along some coasts, and very dangerous, from the difficulty of extricating a person who begins sinking into it.

To plant with living shrubs or trees for a hedge; as, to quickset a ditch.

The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver.

Overlaid with quicksilver, or with an amalgam of quicksilver and tinfoil.

The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.

A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of dancing.

All the submerged section of a vessel's planking. The planking between the spirketing and the clamps. The short planks between the portholes.

To drop from the mouth, as food when partially chewed; -- said of horses.

Somebody; one unknown.

A confection of quinces, in consistency between a sirup and marmalade.

Constituting, or containing, the essence of a thing; quidditative.

A subtilty; an equivocation.

Quiddative.

The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or, What is it?

To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.

One who wastes his energy about trifles.

One who is curious to know everything that passes; one who knows, or pretends to know, all that is going on.

To be silent, as a letter; to have no sound.

The state or quality of being quiescent.

A silent letter.

In a quiescent manner.

To become still, silent, or calm; -- often with down; as, be soon quieted down.

Quietness.

One who, or that which, quiets.

Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction.

One of a sect of mystics originated in the seventeenth century by Molinos, a Spanish priest living in Rome. See Quietism.

Of or pertaining to the Quietists, or to Quietism.

In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly.

The quality or state of being quiet; freedom from noise, agitation, disturbance, or excitement; stillness; tranquillity; calmness.

Calm; still.

Rest; repose; quiet; tranquillity.

Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.

To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle.

An American fresh-water fish (Ictiobus cyprinus syn. Carpiodes cyprinus); -- called also carp sucker, sailfish, spearfish, and skimback.

Furnished with quills; also, shaped like quills.

Subtilty; nicety; quibble.

A band of linen, muslin, or the like, fluted, folded, or plaited so as somewhat to resemble a row of quills. One of the rounded plaits or flutings of such a band.

Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes, cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four-tubed rushlike leaves, rising from a corm, and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves.

To stitch or sew together at frequent intervals, in order to confine in place the several layers of cloth and wadding of which a garment, comforter, etc., may be made; as, to quilt a coat.

One who, or that which, quilts.

The act of stitching or running in patterns, as in making a quilt.

A European scallop (Pecten opercularis), used as food.

A colorless liquid of a slightly pungent odor, C9H6N.CH3, first obtained as a condensation product of aldehyde and aniline, and regarded as a derivative of quinoline; -- called also methyl quinoline.

Consisting of five; arranged by fives.

A salt of quinic acid.

A complex nitrogenous base related to cinnoline.

The fruit of a shrub (Cydonia vulgaris) belonging to the same tribe as the apple. It somewhat resembles an apple, but differs in having many seeds in each carpel. It has hard flesh of high flavor, but very acid, and is largely used for marmalade, jelly, and preserves.

The squinancy. Called also quinsywort.

To stir; to wince.

In the manner or order of a quincunx.

An arrangement of things by fives in a square or a rectangle, one being placed at each corner and one in the middle; especially, such an arrangement of trees repeated indefinitely, so as to form a regular group with rows running in various directions.

A plane figure with fifteen angles, and consequently fifteen sides.

One of a sacerdotal college of fifteen men whose chief duty was to take care of the Sibylline books.

The body or office of the quindecemviri.