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.

One who, or that which, quickens.

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.

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.

An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C15H26, of the valylene series, produced artificially as an oily liquid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the fatty acid series, containing fifteen atoms of carbon; called also pentadecylic acid.

A fifteenth part.

A fifteenth.

A green crystalline substance formed by the union of quinone with hydroquinone, or as an intermediate product in the oxidation of hydroquinone or the reduction of quinone.

Quinine.

An interval of a fifth; also, a part sung with such intervals.

Pertaining to, derived from, or connected with, quinine and related compounds; specifically, designating a nonnitrogenous acid obtained from cinchona bark, coffee, beans, etc., as a white crystalline substance.

An uncrystallizable alkaloid obtained by the action of heat from quinine, with which it is isomeric.

An alkaloid isomeric with, and resembling, quinine, found in certain species of cinchona, from which it is extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance; conchinine. It is used somewhat as a febrifuge.

An alkaloid extracted from the bark of several species of cinchona (esp. Cinchona Calisaya) as a bitter white crystalline substance, C20H24N2O2. Hence, by extension (Med.), any of the salts of this alkaloid, as the acetate, chloride, sulphate, etc., employed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc.

Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid obtained as a yellow crystalline substance by the oxidation of quinine.

See Cinchonism.

any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, certain of which are used as antipyretics.

The California salmon (Oncorhynchus choicha); -- called also chouicha, king salmon, chinnook salmon, and Sacramento salmon. It is of great commercial importance.

The seeds of a kind of goosewort (Chenopodium Quinoa), used in Chili and Peru for making porridge or cakes; also, food thus made.

A hypothetical radical of quinine and related alkaloids.

A brownish resinous substance obtained as a by-product in the treatment of cinchona bark. It consists of a mixture of several alkaloids.

A nitrogenous base, C9H7N obtained as a pungent colorless liquid by the distillation of alkaloids, bones, coal tar, etc. It the nucleus of many organic bodies, especially of certain alkaloids and related substances; hence, by extension, any one of the series of alkaloidal bases of which quinoline proper is the type.

One who is versed in quinology.

The science which treats of the cultivation of the cinchona, and of its use in medicine.

A crystalline substance, C6H4O2 (called also benzoketone), first obtained by the oxidation of quinic acid and regarded as a double ketone; also, by extension, any one of the series of which quinone proper is the type.

Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline acid obtained from some varieties of cinchona bark.

An amorphous bitter glucoside derived from cinchona and other barks. Called also quinova bitter, and quinova.

Any one of a series of complex nitrogenous bases obtained by the union of certain aniline derivatives with glyoxal or with certain ketones.

The hypothetical radical of certain quinone derivatives related to rhodizonic acid.

A radical of which quinone is the hydride, analogous to phenyl.

Fiftieth.

Having five angles or corners.

Relating to the five articles or points; as, the quinquarticular controversy between Arminians and Calvinists.

Having five leaflets.

Having five angles; quinquangular.

Five-toothed; as, a quinquedentate leaf.

Arranged in five vertical rows; pentastichous.

Sharply cut about halfway to the middle or base into five segments; as, a quinquefid leaf or corolla.

Having five leaves or leaflets.

Consisting of five letters.

Cut less than halfway into portions, usually somewhat rounded; five-lobed; as, a quinquelobate leaf or corolla.