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Quadra
The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like.
Quadragesima
The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent.
Quadrantal
Of or pertaining to a quadrant; also, included in the fourth part of a circle; .
Quadrate
Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
Quadrate
To square; to agree; to suit; to correspond; -- followed by .
Quadratrix
A curve made use of in the quadrature of other curves; .
Quadrifurcated
Having four forks, or branches.
Quadrijugous
Pinnate, with four pairs of leaflets; .
Quadrinomical
Quadrinomial.
Quadrireme
A galley with four banks of oars or rowers.
Quadrisulcate
Having four hoofs;
Quadruple
four times the sum or number; a fourfold amount; .
Quadruple
To be multiplied by four; to increase fourfold; to become four times as much.
Quadruplet
A collection or combination of four of a kind.
Quadruplex
Fourfold; folded or doubled twice.
Quag
A quagmire.
Quaggy
Of the nature of a quagmire; yielding or trembling under the foot, as soft, wet earth; spongy; boggy.
Quaily
The upland plover.
Quake
To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble.
Quake
A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.
Quakerish
Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.
Quakery
Quakerism.
Qualificative
That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term or statement.
Qualitied
Furnished with qualities; endowed.
Quandong
The edible drupaceous fruit of an Australian tree () of the Sandalwood family; -- called also .
Quant
A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.
Quantify
To modify or qualify with respect to quantity; to determine, fix or express the quantity of; to rate.
Quaquaversal
Turning or dipping in any or every direction.
Quarl
A medusa, or jellyfish.
Quarrel
To violate concord or agreement; to have a difference; to fall out; to be or become antagonistic.
Quarrel
One who quarrels or wrangles; one who is quarrelsome.
Quarry
Same as 1st .
Quarry
To dig or take from a quarry; .
Quartering
A station.
Quarterly
A periodical work published once a quarter, or four times in a year.
Quash
To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; .
Quass
A thin, sour beer, made by pouring warm water on rye or barley meal and letting it ferment, -- much used by the Russians. Called also .
Quater-cousin
A cousin within the first four degrees of kindred.
Quaternary
The number four.
Quaternity
The number four.
Quatre
A card, die. or domino, having four spots, or pips
Quave
To quaver.
Quavemire
See .
Quaver
A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music.
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.
Queenliness
The quality of being queenly; the; characteristic of a queen; stateliness; eminence among women in attractions or power.
Quelquechose
A trifle; a kickshaw.
Quemeful
Kindly; merciful.
Quench
To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions;
Querimonious
Complaining; querulous; apt to complain.
Querken
To stifle or choke.
Querry
A groom; an equerry.
Query
To put questions about; to elicit by questioning; to inquire into;
Question
To inquire of by asking questions; to examine by interrogatories; .
Queue
A tail-like appendage of hair; a pigtail.
Quick
In a quick manner; quickly; promptly; rapidly; with haste; speedily; without delay;
Quickener
One who, or that which, quickens.
Quicken tree
The European rowan tree; -- called also , and . See .
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.
Quiddit
A subtilty; an equivocation.
Quidditative
Quiddative.
Quidnunc
One who is curious to know everything that passes; one who knows, or pretends to know, all that is going on.
Quiescently
In a quiescent manner.
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.
Quilt
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; .
Quincewort
The squinancy. Called also .
Quindecemvirate
The body or office of the quindecemviri.
Quinologist
One who is versed in quinology.
Quinovic
Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline acid obtained from some varieties of cinchona bark.
Quinquagesima
Fiftieth.
Quinqueangled
Having five angles; quinquangular.
Quinque foliolate
Having five leaflets.
Quinquennalia
Public games celebrated every five years.
Quinquina
Peruvian bark.
Quinquivalent
Same as .
Quintain
An object to be tilted at; -- called also .
Quintin
See .
Quintuple
To make fivefold, or five times as much or many.
Quirboilly
Leather softened by boiling so as to take any required shape. Upon drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor.
Quirky
Full of quirks; tricky; .
Quit
Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See , under , and .
Quitly
Quite.
Quiveringly
With quivering motion.
Quodlibetical
Not restricted to a particular subject; discussed for curiosity or entertainment.
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.
Quondam
Having been formerly; former; sometime.
Quotidian
Anything returning daily; especially , an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day.
Quran
See .