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Quacksalver
One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank.
Quadragesimal
Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten.
Quadragesimals
Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.
Quadratics
That branch of algebra which treats of quadratic equations.
Quadratojugal
Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones.
Quadrature
The act of squaring; the finding of a square having the same area as some given curvilinear figure; ; the operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure bounded wholly or in part by a curved line, as by a curve, two ordinates, and the axis of abscissas.
Quadricorn
Any quadricornous animal.
Quadrifurcated
Having four forks, or branches.
Quadrilateral
Having four sides, and consequently four angles; quadrangular.
Quadrill
Marked with squares, generally by thin lines crossing at right angles and at equal intervals; .
Quadrille
A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded.
Quadrivalent
Having a valence of four; capable of combining with, being replaced by, or compared with, four monad atoms; tetravalent; -- said of certain atoms and radicals; .
Quadrivalvular
Having four valves; quadrivalve.
Quadrivium
The four liberal arts, arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- so called by the schoolmen. See .
Quadruped
An animal having four feet, as most mammals and reptiles; -- often restricted to the mammals.
Quadrupedal
Having four feet; of or pertaining to a quadruped.
Quaff
To drink largely or luxuriously.
Quakerish
Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.
Quakerlike
Like a Quaker.
Quakiness
The state of being quaky; liability to quake.
Qualification
The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified.
Qualify
To make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the knowledge, skill, or other accomplishment necessary for a purpose; to make capable, as of an employment or privilege; to supply with legal power or capacity.
Qualify
To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment.
Qualitative
Relating to quality; having the character of quality.
Qualitied
Furnished with qualities; endowed.
Quantify
To modify or qualify with respect to quantity; to determine, fix or express the quantity of; to rate.
Quarrel
A breach of concord, amity, or obligation; a falling out; a difference; a disagreement; an antagonism in opinion, feeling, or conduct; esp., an angry dispute, contest, or strife; a brawl; an altercation; .
Quarrellous
Quarrelsome.
Quarried
Provided with prey.
Quart
In cards, four successive cards of the same suit. Cf. , 4.
Quartan
An intermittent fever which returns every fourth day, reckoning inclusively, that is, one in which the interval between paroxysms is two days.
Quarter
To divide into four equal parts.
Quarterage
A quarterly allowance.
Quarter-deck
That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one.
Quarto
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.
Quartzite
Massive quartz occurring as a rock; a metamorphosed sandstone; -- called also .
Quas
A kind of beer. Same as .
Quata
The coaita.
Quater-cousin
A cousin within the first four degrees of kindred.
Quatuor
A quartet; -- applied chiefly to instrumental compositions.
Quayage
Wharfage.
Queach
A thick, bushy plot; a thicket.
Quebracho
A Chilian apocynaceous tree (); also, its bark, which is used as a febrifuge, and for dyspna of the lung, or bronchial diseases; -- called also , to distinguish it from the , a Mexican anacardiaceous tree () whose bark is said to have similar properties.
Queenly
Like, becoming, or suitable to, a queen.
Queest
The European ringdove (); the cushat.
Queint
of .
Querent
A complainant; a plaintiff.
Querimony
A complaint or complaining.
Querl
To twirl; to turn or wind round; to coil; .
Quest
The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit;
Question
The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; .
Questioner
One who asks questions; an inquirer.
Questrist
A seeker; a pursuer.
Quibble
A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.
Quibble
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.
Quick
In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay;
Quick
That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge.
Quickener
One who, or that which, quickens.
Quicken tree
The European rowan tree; -- called also , and . See .
Quicklime
Calcium oxide; unslacked lime; -- so called because when wet it develops great heat. See 4th , 2.
Quickset
A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn.
Quicksilvering
The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.
Quick-wittedness
Readiness of wit.
Quid
A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; .
Quidam
Somebody; one unknown.
Quiddative
Constituting, or containing, the essence of a thing; quidditative.
Quiddity
The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, ? or, What is it?
Quiescent
A silent letter.
Quiet
In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still;
Quietism
Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction.
Quietus
Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; () rest; death.
Quillwort
Any plant or species of the genus , 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.
Quinch
To stir; to wince.
Quindecemvirate
The body or office of the quindecemviri.
Quinqueangled
Having five angles; quinquangular.
Quinque foliolate
Having five leaflets.
Quinquenerved
Having five nerves; -- said of a leaf with five nearly equal nerves or ribs rising from the end of the petiole.
Quinquesyllable
A word of five syllables.
Quintel
See .
Quintuple
To make fivefold, or five times as much or many.
Quinzaine
The fifteenth day after a feast day, including both in the reckoning.
Quiritation
A crying for help.
Quitch grass
A perennial grass () having long running rootstalks, by which it spreads rapidly and pertinaciously, and so becomes a troublesome weed. Also called , , , . See in Appendix.
Quixotic
Like ; romantic to extravagance; prone to pursue unrealizable goals; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded. See also .
Quizzism
The act or habit of quizzing.
Quoif
See .
Quondam
Having been formerly; former; sometime.
Quondam
A person dismissed or ejected from a position.
Quote
To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; .
Quoth
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; .
Quotidian
Occurring or returning daily; .
Quotum
Part or proportion; quota.