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Q.C.
Quality control.
Quab
An unfledged bird; hence, something immature or unfinished.
Quab
See ,
Quackle
To suffocate; to choke.
Quadragenarious
Consisting of forty; forty years old.
Quadragesimal
Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten.
Quadrant
The fourth part; the quarter.
Quadrate
Having four equal sides, the opposite sides parallel, and four right angles; square.
Quadrennially
Once in four years.
Quadricornous
Having four horns, or hornlike organs; .
Quadrigenarious
Consisting of four hundred.
Quadrilateralness
The property of being quadrilateral.
Quadrille
A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set.
Quadrinodal
Possessing four nodes; .
Quadriphyllous
Having four leaves; quadrifoliate.
Quadroon
The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a person quarter-blooded.
Quadroxide
A tetroxide.
Quadruple
Fourfold;
Quag
A quagmire.
Quail
To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade.
Quaint
Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily.
Quaintise
Craft; subtlety; cunning.
Quake
A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.
Quakiness
The state of being quaky; liability to quake.
Qualifiable
Capable of being qualified; abatable; modifiable.
Qualifiedly
In the way of qualification; with modification or qualification.
Quantify
To modify or qualify with respect to quantity; to determine, fix or express the quantity of; to rate.
Quantitive
Estimable according to quantity; quantitative.
Quar
A quarry.
Quarantine
A space of forty days; -- used of Lent.
Quarrelet
A little quarrel. See 1st , 2.
Quarry
Same as 1st .
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 .
Quart
In cards, four successive cards of the same suit. Cf. , 4.
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 .
Quartered
Divided into four equal parts or quarters; separated into four parts or regions.
Quartering
A station.
Quartern
A quarter. Specifically: The fourth part of a pint; a gill. The fourth part of a peck, or of a stone (14 ibs.).
Quarteron
A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred.
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.
Quartz
A form of silica, or silicon dioxide (), occurring in hexagonal crystals, which are commonly colorless and transparent, but sometimes also yellow, brown, purple, green, and of other colors; also in cryptocrystalline massive forms varying in color and degree of transparency, being sometimes opaque.
Quas
A kind of beer. Same as .
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.
Quassation
The act of shaking, or the state of being shaken.
Quassia
The wood of several tropical American trees of the order , as , , and . It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer.
Quaternity
The number four.
Quaver
To utter with quavers.
Queach
To stir; to move. See ,
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.
Queening
Any one of several kinds of apples, as , , and . An apple called the was cultivated in England two hundred years ago.
Queme
To please.
Quercitrin
A glucoside extracted from the bark of the oak () as a bitter citron-yellow crystalline substance, used as a pigment and called .
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; .
Questman
One legally empowered to make quest of certain matters, esp. of abuses of weights and measures.
Quice
See .
Quicken
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.
Quick-scented
Acute of smell.
Quickset
A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn.
Quiddany
A confection of quinces, in consistency between a sirup and marmalade.
Quiddative
Constituting, or containing, the essence of a thing; quidditative.
Quiesce
To be silent, as a letter; to have no sound.
Quiescent
Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; not moving; .
Quill
To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; .
Quilter
One who, or that which, quilts.
Quinary
Consisting of five; arranged by fives.
Quinate
Growing in sets of five; -- said especially of leaves composed of five leaflets set at the end of a common petiole.
Quindem
A fifteenth part.
Quinic
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.
Quinizine
any one of a series of nitrogenous bases, certain of which are used as antipyretics.
Quinogen
A hypothetical radical of quinine and related alkaloids.
Quinovic
Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline acid obtained from some varieties of cinchona bark.
Quinovin
An amorphous bitter glucoside derived from cinchona and other barks. Called also , and .
Quinquagesima
Fiftieth.
Quinque-
A combining form meaning , , ;
Quinqueliteral
Consisting of five letters.
Quinquelobed
Same as .
Quinquina
Peruvian bark.
Quintuple
To make fivefold, or five times as much or many.
Quirites
Roman citizens.
Quish
See .
Quitch
Same as .
Quitclaim
A release or relinquishment of a claim; a deed of release; an instrument by which some right, title, interest, or claim, which one person has, or is supposed to have, in or to an estate held by himself or another, is released or relinquished, the grantor generally covenanting only against persons who claim under himself.
Quittance
To repay; to requite.
Quitter
One who quits.
Quiver
A case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person.
Quob
To throb; to quiver.
Quodlibetarian
One who discusses any subject at pleasure.
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.
Quoke
of .
Quook
of .
Quotha
Indeed; forsooth.