One of five commissioners appointed for some special object.

Peruvian bark.

Same as Pentavalent.

An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy, and squinzey.

A set or sequence of five, as in piquet.

An object to be tilted at; -- called also quintel.

A hundredweight, either 112 or 100 pounds, according to the scale used. Cf. Cental.

Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever. An intermittent fever which returns every fifth day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts three days.

See Quintain.

To distil or extract as a quintessence; to reduce to a quintessence.

Of the nature of a quintessence; purest; most characteristic.

A composition for five voices or instruments; also, the set of five persons who sing or play five-part music.

Of the fifth degree or order. A quantic of the fifth degree. See Quantic.

The aspect of planets when separated the fifth part of the zodiac, or 72/.

According to the French notation, which is used on the Continent and in America, the cube of a million, or a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a number produced by involving a million to the fifth power, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.

See Quintain.

The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument. Cf. Quartine, and Tercine.

A group of five notes to be played or sung in the time of four of the same species.

The off-spring of an octoroon and a white person.

To make fivefold, or five times as much or many.

The same as Quinquenerved.

A collection or combination of five of a kind.

five children born from one mother in a single pregnancy.

The fifteenth day after a feast day, including both in the reckoning.

A game at cards in which the object is to make fifteen points.

To scoff; to use taunts.

Same as Quipu.

A person who frequently makes quips.

A contrivance employed by the ancient Peruvians, Mexicans, etc., as a substitute for writing and figures, consisting of a main cord, from which hung at certain distances smaller cords of various colors, each having a special meaning, as silver, gold, corn, soldiers. etc. Single, double, and triple knots were tied in the smaller cords, representing definite numbers. It was chiefly used for arithmetical purposes, and to register important facts and events.

Leather softened by boiling so as to take any required shape. Upon drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor.

A collection of twenty-four sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one twentieth of a ream.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the hill Collis Quirinalis, now Monte Quirinale (one of the seven hills of Rome), or a modern royal place situated upon it. Also used substantively.

A chorister. See Chorister.

A crying for help.

One of the Quirites.

Roman citizens.

A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger.

Having, or formed with, a quirk or quirks.

Consisting of quirks; resembling a quirk.

Full of quirks; tricky; as, a quirky lawyer.

See Querl.

The Indian ferret.

A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.

See Cuish.

To go away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.

Same as Quitch grass.

To release or relinquish a claim to; to release a claim to by deed, without covenants of warranty against adverse and paramount titles.

See Quit.

Quite.

A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service.

See the Note under Quit, a.

Capable of being quitted.

Return; requital; quittance.

To repay; to requite.

One who quits.

A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone.

A discharge; an issue.

A case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person.

Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver.

With quivering motion.

In a quixotic way.

That form of delusion which leads to extravagant and absurd undertakings or sacrifices in obedience to a morbidly romantic ideal of duty or honor, as illustrated by the exploits of Don Quixote in knight-errantry. See quixotic.

Quixotism; visionary schemes.

To conduct a quiz. See Quiz, n., 4.

One who quizzes; a quiz.

Relating to quizzing; given to quizzing; of the nature of a quiz; farcical; sportive.

The act or habit of quizzing.

To throb; to quiver.

To put in quod, or prison; to lock up; to jug.

Herring taken and cured or smoked near Quoddy Head, Maine, or near the entrance of Passamaquoddy Bay.

One who discusses any subject at pleasure.

Not restricted to a particular subject; discussed for curiosity or entertainment.

See Coif.

See Coiffure.

See Coil.

Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked.

To throw; to pitch.

imp. of Quake.

A marsupial of Australia (Dasyurus macrurus), about the size of a cat.

A person dismissed or ejected from a position.

imp. of Quake.

See Quob.

Such a number of the officers or members of any body as is competent by law or constitution to transact business; as, a quorum of the House of Representatives; a constitutional quorum was not present.

A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.

Capable or worthy of being quoted; as, a quotable writer; a quotable sentence.

The act of quoting or citing.

One who makes, or is given to making, quotations.

A note upon an author.

One who quotes the words of another.

Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object; as, quoth I, quoth he.

Indeed; forsooth.

Anything returning daily; especially (Med.), an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day.

The relation of an object to number.

Part or proportion; quota.

See Koran.

Research and development; used mostly to refer to the division of a corporation responsible for performing research and developing new products, or the activitie performed by that division; -- a commonly used abbreviation.

research and development; -- used mostly to refer to the division of a corporation responsible for performing research and developing new products; -- a commonly used abbreviation.

A roe; a deer.

The electric catfish.

A rod or stick used by masons in mixing hair with mortar.

A clerical linen collar. A kind of clerical scarf fitted to a collar; as, a black silk rabat.

To recover to the fist, as a hawk.

A collar or cape.

A kind of ruff for the neck; a turned-down collar; a rebato.

To abate or diminish. Abatement.

To cut a rabbet in; to furnish with a rabbet.

Master; lord; teacher; -- a Jewish title of respect or honor for a teacher or doctor of the law.

Same as Rabbi.

The language or dialect of the rabbins; the later Hebrew.

Of or pertaining to the rabbins or rabbis, or pertaining to the opinions, learning, or language of the rabbins.

In a rabbinical manner; after the manner of the rabbins.

A rabbinic expression or phraseology; a peculiarity of the language of the rabbins.

One among the Jews who adhered to the Talmud and the traditions of the rabbins, in opposition to the Karaites, who rejected the traditions.

Same as Rabbinist.

Any of the smaller species of the genus Lepus, especially the common European species (Lepus cuniculus), which is often kept as a pet, and has been introduced into many countries. It is remarkably prolific, and has become a pest in some parts of Australia and New Zealand.

To hunt rabbits.

The hunting of rabbits.

A place where rabbits are kept; especially, a collection of hutches for tame rabbits.

To insult, or assault, by a mob; to mob; as, to rabble a curate.

A tumultuous crowd; a rabble; a noisy throng.