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Quack grass
See .
Quadrantal
A cubical vessel containing a Roman cubic foot, each side being a Roman square foot; -- used as a measure.
Quadrate
To adjust (a gun) on its carriage; also, to train (a gun) for horizontal firing.
Quadratrix
A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves; .
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.
Quadrilocular
Having four cells, or cavities; .
Quadrin
A small piece of money, in value about a farthing, or a half cent.
Quadrinomial
A polynomial of four terms connected by the signs plus or minus.
Quadrisyllable
A word consisting of four syllables.
Quadroxide
A tetroxide.
Quaintly
In a quaint manner.
Quake
To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble.
Quakiness
The state of being quaky; liability to quake.
Qualifiedness
The state of being qualified.
Quandary
A state of difficulty or perplexity; doubt; uncertainty.
Quandary
To bring into a state of uncertainty, perplexity, or difficulty.
Quandong
The edible drupaceous fruit of an Australian tree () of the Sandalwood family; -- called also .
Quannet
A flat file having the handle at one side, so as to be used like a plane.
Quantitative
Relating to quantity.
Quantivalence
Valence.
Quaquaversal
Turning or dipping in any or every direction.
Quar
A quarry.
Quarantine
A space of forty days; -- used of Lent.
Quarrel
One who quarrels or wrangles; one who is quarrelsome.
Quarrellous
Quarrelsome.
Quarry
A place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a stone pit. See 5th .
Quarry-man
A man who is engaged in quarrying stones; a quarrier.
Quartation
The act, process, or result (in the of parting) of alloying a button of nearly pure gold with enough silver to reduce the fineness so as to allow acids to attack and remove all metals except the gold; -- called also . Compare .
Quartene
Same as .
Quarter
To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels.
Quartermaster
An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies.
Quash
To be shaken, or dashed about, with noise.
Quasi corporation
A corporation consisting of a person or body of persons invested with some of the qualities of an artificial person, though not expressly incorporated, esp. the official of certain municipal divisions such as counties, schools districts, and the towns of some States of the United States, certain church officials, as a churchwarden, etc.
Quater-cousin
A cousin within the first four degrees of kindred.
Quaternion
To divide into quaternions, files, or companies.
Quaternity
The number four.
Quaver
To utter with quavers.
Quay
To furnish with quays.
Queasy
Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; qualmish.
Queen
The wife of a king.
Queen
To make a queen (or other piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row; .
Queening
Any one of several kinds of apples, as , , and . An apple called the was cultivated in England two hundred years ago.
Queerish
Rather queer; somewhat singular.
Queintise
See .
Quellio
A ruff for the neck.
Quercitannic
Pertaining to, or designating, a tannic acid found in oak bark and extracted as a yellowish brown amorphous substance.
Quercite
A white crystalline substance, , found in acorns, the fruit of the oak (). It has a sweet taste, and is regarded as a pentacid alcohol.
Quercitin
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 .
Quercitrin
A glucoside extracted from the bark of the oak () as a bitter citron-yellow crystalline substance, used as a pigment and called .
Querulous
Given to quarreling; quarrelsome.
Questionary
Inquiring; asking questions; testing.
Questorship
The office, or the term of office, of a questor.
Questuary
Studious of profit.
Quickbeam
See .
Quickening
The act or process of making or of becoming quick.
Quickset
A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn.
Quiet
In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still;
Quiet
To stop motion in; to still; to reduce to a state of rest, or of silence.
Quietly
In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state of rest; .
Quillaia bark
The bark of a rosaceous tree (), native of Chile. The bark is finely laminated, and very heavy with alkaline substances, and is used commonly by the Chileans instead of soap. Also called .
Quinch
To stir; to wince.
Quincuncially
In the manner or order of a quincunx.
Quinia
Quinine.
Quinidine
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.
Quinovin
An amorphous bitter glucoside derived from cinchona and other barks. Called also , and .
Quinquarticular
Relating to the five articles or points; .
Quinquennalia
Public games celebrated every five years.
Quinquennial
Occurring once in five years, or at the end of every five years; also, lasting five years. A quinquennial event.
Quintin
See .
Quipo
Same as .
Quit
To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
Quiver
To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
Quob
To throb; to quiver.
Quoin
Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked.
Quorum
Such a number of the officers or members of any body as is competent by law or constitution to transact business;
Quota
A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.
Quotidian
Anything returning daily; especially , an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day.