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2. To divide; to separate into parts or regions.
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Then sailors quartered heaven. Dryden.
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3. To furnish with shelter or entertainment; to supply with the means of living for a time; especially, to furnish shelter to; as, to quarter soldiers.
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They mean this night in Sardis to be quartered. Shak.
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4. To furnish as a portion; to allot. [R.]
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This isle . . .
He quarters to his blue-haired deities. Milton.
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5. (Her.) To arrange (different coats of arms) upon one escutcheon, as when a man inherits from both father and mother the right to bear arms.
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☞ When only two coats of arms are so combined they are arranged in four compartments. See , n., 1 (f).
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Quarter (kwärtẽr), v. i. To lodge; to have a temporary residence.
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Quarter, v. i. [F. cartayer.] 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.
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Every creature that met us would rely on us for quartering. De Quincey.
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Quarterage (?), n. A quarterly allowance.
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Quarter-deck (?), n. (Naut.) That part of the upper deck abaft the mainmast, including the poop deck when there is one.
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☞ The quarter-deck is reserved as a promenade for the officers and (in passenger vessels) for the cabin passengers.
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Quartered (?), a. 1. Divided into four equal parts or quarters; separated into four parts or regions.
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2. Furnished with quarters; provided with shelter or entertainment.
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3. Quarter-sawed; -- said of timber, commonly oak.
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Quarterfoil (?), n. [Quarier + foil: cf. F. quatre.] (Arch.) An ornamental foliation having four lobes, or foils.
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Quarterhung (?), a. (Ordnance) Having trunnions the axes of which lie below the bore; -- said of a cannon.
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Quartering, a. 1. (Naut.) Coming from a point well abaft the beam, but not directly astern; -- said of waves or any moving object.
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2. (Mach.) At right angles, as the cranks of a locomotive, which are in planes forming a right angle with each other.
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Quartering, n. 1. A station. [Obs.] Bp. Montagu.
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2. Assignment of quarters for soldiers; quarters.
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3. (Her.) (a) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments. (b) One of the different coats of arms arranged upon an escutcheon, denoting the descent of the bearer.
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4. (Arch.) A series of quarters, or small upright posts. See , n., 1 (m) (Arch.) Gwilt.
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Coloq. Quartering block , a block on which the body of a condemned criminal was quartered. Macaulay.
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Quarterly, a. 1. Containing, or consisting of, a fourth part; as, quarterly seasons.
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2. Recurring during, or at the end of, each quarter; as, quarterly payments of rent; a quarterly meeting.
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Quarterly, n.; pl. Quarterlies (�). A periodical work published once a quarter, or four times in a year.
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Quarterly, adv. 1. By quarters; once in a quarter of a year; as, the returns are made quarterly.
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2. (Her.) In quarters, or quarterings; as, to bear arms quarterly; in four or more parts; -- said of a shield thus divided by lines drawn through it at right angles.
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Quartermaster (?), n. [Quarter + master: cf. F. quartier-maître.] 1. (Mil.) 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.
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2. (Naut.) A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master. Totten.
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Coloq. Quartermaster general (Mil.), in the United States a staff officer, who has the rank of brigadier general and is the chief officer in the quartermaster's department; in England, an officer of high rank stationed at the War Office having similar duties; also, a staff officer, usually a general officer, accompanying each complete army in the field. -- Coloq. Quartermaster sergeant . See .
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Quartern (?), n. [OE. quarteroun, quartron, F. quarteron, the fourth part of a pound, or of a hundred; cf. L. quartarius a fourth part, quarter of any measure, quartern, gill. See , and cf. , .] 1. A quarter. Specifically: (a) The fourth part of a pint; a gill. (b) The fourth part of a peck, or of a stone (14 ibs.).
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2. A loaf of bread weighing about four pounds; -- called also quartern loaf. Simmonds.
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Quarteron (?), n. [F. See .] A quarter; esp., a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred. Piers Plowman.
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{ Quarteron (?), Quarteroon (?) }, n. A quadroon.
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Quarterpace (?), n. (Arch.) A platform of a staircase where the stair turns at a right angle only. See .
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Quarter round (?). (Arch.) An ovolo.
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Quarter-saw (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. ; p. pr. & vb. n. .] To saw (a log) into quarters; specif., to saw into quarters and then into boards, as by cutting alternately from each face of a quarter, to secure lumber that will warp relatively little or show the grain advantageously.
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Quarterstaff (?), n.; pl. Quarterstaves (�). A long and stout staff formerly used as a weapon of defense and offense; -- so called because in holding it one hand was placed in the middle, and the other between the middle and the end.
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{ Quartet, Quartette } (?), n. [It. quartetto, dim. of quarto the fourth, a fourth part, fr. L. quartus the fourth. See .] 1. (Mus.) (a) A composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument. (b) The set of four person who perform a piece of music in four parts.
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2. (Poet.) A stanza of four lines.
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Quartic (?), a. [L. quartus fourth.] (Mach.) Of the fourth degree.
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Quartic (?), n. (a) (Alg.) A quantic of the fourth degree. See . (b) (Geom.) A curve or surface whose equation is of the fourth degree in the variables.
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Quartile (?), n. [F. quartile aspect, fr. L. quartus the fourth. See .] (Astrol.) Same as .
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Quartine (?), n. [F., fr. L. quartus the fourth.] (Bot.) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.
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Quarto (?), a. [L. in quarto in fourth, from quartus the fourth: cf. F. (in) quarto. See .] Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto.
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Quarto, n.; pl. Quartos (�). 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.
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Quartridge (?), n. Quarterage. [Obs.]
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Quartz (?), n. [G. quarz.] (Min.) A form of silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2), 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.
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☞ The crystalline varieties include: amethyst, violet; citrine and false topaz, pale yellow; rock crystal, transparent and colorless or nearly so; rose quartz, rosecolored; smoky quartz, smoky brown. The chief crypto-crystalline varieties are: agate, a chalcedony in layers or clouded with different colors, including the onyx and sardonyx; carnelian and sard, red or flesh-colored chalcedony; chalcedony, nearly white, and waxy in luster; chrysoprase, an apple-green chalcedony; flint, hornstone, basanite, or touchstone, brown to black in color and compact in texture; heliotrope, green dotted with red; jasper, opaque, red yellow, or brown, colored by iron or ferruginous clay; prase, translucent and dull leek-green. Quartz is an essential constituent of granite, and abounds in rocks of all ages. It forms the rocks quartzite (quartz rock) and sandstone, and makes most of the sand of the seashore.
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Quartziferous (?), a. [Quartz + -ferous.] (Min.) Consisting chiefly of quartz; containing quartz.
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Quartzite (?), n. [Cf. F. quartzite.] (Min.) Massive quartz occurring as a rock; a metamorphosed sandstone; -- called also quartz rock.
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Quartzoid (?), n. [Quartz + -oid.] (Crystallog.) A form of crystal common with quartz, consisting of two six-sided pyramids, base to base.
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Quartzose (?), a. [Cf. F. quartzeux, G. quarzig.] (Min.) Containing, or resembling, quartz; partaking of the nature or qualities of quartz.
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quartzous (?), a. (Min.) Quarzose.
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Quartzy (?), a. (Min.) Quartzose.
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Quas (?), n. A kind of beer. Same as .
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{ Quaschi (?), Quasje (?) }, n. (Zoöl.) The brown coati. See .
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Quash (?), n. Same as .
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Quash, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quashed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Quashing.] [OF. quasser, F. casser, fr. L. cassare to annihilate, annul, fr. cassus empty, vain, of uncertain origin. The word has been confused with L. quassare to shake, F. casser to break, which is probably of different origin. Cf. , v. t.] (Law) To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment. Blackstone.
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Quash, v. t. [OF. quasser, F. casser, fr. L. quassare to shake, shatter, shiver, v. intens. fr. quatere, quassum, to shake, shatter. Cf. , , , and also to annul.] 1. To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to crush.
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The whales
Against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quashed,
Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed. Waller.
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2. To crush; to subdue; to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely; as, to quash a rebellion.
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Contrition is apt to quash or allay all worldly grief. Barrow.
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Quash, v. i. To be shaken, or dashed about, with noise.
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Quashee (?), n. A negro of the West Indies.
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Quasi (?). [L.] As if; as though; as it were; in a manner sense or degree; having some resemblance to; qualified; -- used as an adjective, or a prefix with a noun or an adjective; as, a quasi contract, an implied contract, an obligation which has arisen from some act, as if from a contract; a quasi corporation, a body that has some, but not all, of the peculiar attributes of a corporation; a quasi argument, that which resembles, or is used as, an argument; quasi historical, apparently historical, seeming to be historical.
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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.
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Quasimodo (?), n. [So called from the first words of the Latin introit, quasi modo geniti infantes as newborn babes, 1 Pet. ii. 2.] (R. C. Ch.) The first Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.
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Quass (?), n. [Russ. kvas'.] 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 kvass. [written also quas.]
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Quassation (?), n. [L. quassatio, from quassare to shake. See to crush.] The act of shaking, or the state of being shaken. Gayton.
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Quassia (?), n. [NL. From the name of a negro, Quassy, or Quash, who prescribed this article as a specific.] The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarubeæ, as Quassia amara, Picræna excelsa, and Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer.
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Quassin (?), n. [Cf. F. quassine. See .] (Chem.) The bitter principle of quassia, extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called quassite. [Written also quassīin, and quassine.]
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Quat (?), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (a) A pustule. [Obs.] (b) An annoying, worthless person. Shak.
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Quat, v. t. To satiate; to satisfy. [Prov. Eng.]
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Quata (?), n. (Zoöl.) The coaita.
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Quatch (?), a. Squat; flat. [Obs.] Shak.
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Quater-cousin (?), n. [F. quatre four + cousin, E. cousin.] A cousin within the first four degrees of kindred.
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Quaternary (?), a. [L. quaternarius consisting of four each, containing four, fr. quaterni four each, fr. quattuor four: cf. F. quaternaire. See .]
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1. Consisting of four; by fours, or in sets of four.
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2. (Geol.) Later than, or subsequent to, the Tertiary; Post-tertiary; as, the Quaternary age, or Age of man.
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Quaternary, n. [L. numerus quaternarius: cf. F. quaternaire.] 1. The number four. Boyle.
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2. (Geol.) The Quaternary age, era, or formation. See the Chart of .
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Quaternate (?), a. Composed of, or arranged in, sets of four; quaternary; as, quaternate leaves.
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Quaternion (?), n. [L. quaternio, fr. quaterni four each. See .] 1. The number four. [Poetic]
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2. A set of four parts, things, or person; four things taken collectively; a group of four words, phrases, circumstances, facts, or the like.
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Delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers. Acts xii. 4.
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Ye elements, the eldest birth
Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run. Milton.
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The triads and quaternions with which he loaded his sentences. Sir W. Scott.
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3. A word of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.
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4. (Math.) The quotient of two vectors, or of two directed right lines in space, considered as depending on four geometrical elements, and as expressible by an algebraic symbol of quadrinomial form.
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☞ The science or calculus of quaternions is a new mathematical method, in which the conception of a quaternion is unfolded and symbolically expressed, and is applied to various classes of algebraical, geometrical, and physical questions, so as to discover theorems, and to arrive at the solution of problems. Sir W. R. Hamilton.
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Quaternion, v. t. To divide into quaternions, files, or companies. Milton.
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Quaternity (?), n. [LL. quaternitas, fr. L. quaterni four each: cf. F. quaternité.] 1. The number four. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
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2. The union of four in one, as of four persons; -- analogous to the theological term trinity.
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Quateron (?), n. See 2d .
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Quatorzain (?), n. [See .] A poem of fourteen lines; a sonnet. R. H. Stoddard.
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Quatorze (?), n. [F. quatorze fourteen, L. quattuordecim. See .] The four aces, kings, queens, knaves, or tens, in the game of piquet; -- so called because quatorze counts as fourteen points.
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Quatrain (?), n. [F., fr. quatre four, L. quattuor, quatuor. See .] (Pros.) A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately. Dryden.
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Quatre (?), n. [F.] A card, die. or domino, having four spots, or pips
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{ Quatrefeuille (?), Quatrefoil (?), } n. [F. quatre feuilles.] Same as .
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Quattrocento (?), n. & a. [It., four hundred, used as an abbreviated expression for the dates beginning with fourteen hundred.] The fifteenth century, when applied to Italian art or literature; as, the sculpture of the quattrocento; quattrocento style. -- Quattrocentist (#), n.
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Quatuor (?), n. [F., fr. L. quattuor, quatuor, four. See .] (Mus.) A quartet; -- applied chiefly to instrumental compositions.
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Quave (?), n. See . [Obs.]
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Quave, v. i. To quaver. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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Quavemire (?), n. See . [Obs.]
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Quaver, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quavered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Quavering.] [OE. quaven to shake, to tremble; cf. LG. quabbeln to shake, to be soft, of fat substances, quabbe a fat lump of flesh, a dewlap, D. kwabbe, and E. quiver, v.] 1. To tremble; to vibrate; to shake. Sir I. Newton.
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2. Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument
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Quaver, v. t. To utter with quavers.
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We shall hear her quavering them . . . to some sprightly airs of the opera. Addison.
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Quaver, n. 1. A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music.
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2. (Mus.) An eighth note. See .
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Quaverer (?), n. One who quavers; a warbler.
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Quay (?), n. [F. quai. See quay.] A mole, bank, or wharf, formed toward the sea, or at the side of a harbor, river, or other navigable water, for convenience in loading and unloading vessels. [Written also key.]
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Quay (?), v. t. To furnish with quays.
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Quayage (?), n. [F.] Wharfage. [Also keyage.]
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Quayd (?), p. p. of . [Obs.] Spenser.
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Que (?), n. [Cf. 3d .] A half farthing. [Obs.]
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Queach (?), n. [Cf. .] A thick, bushy plot; a thicket. [Obs.] Chapman.
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Queach, v. i. [Cf. E. quich, v. i., quick, v. i.; or AS. cweccan to shake.] To stir; to move. See , v. i. [Obs.]
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Queachy (?), a. 1. Yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy ground; shaking; moving. “The queachy fens.” “Godwin's queachy sands.” Drayton.
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2. Like a queach; thick; bushy. [Obs.] Cockeram.
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Quean (?), n. [Originally, a woman, AS. cwene; akin to OS. quena, OHG. quena, Icel. kona, Goth qin�, and AS. cwén, also to Gr. � woman, wife, Skr. gnā goddess. Cf. .] 1. A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl. [Obs. or Scot.] Chaucer.
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2. A low woman; a wench; a slut. “The dread of every scolding quean.” Gay.
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Queasily (?), adv. In a queasy manner.
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Queasiness, n. The state of being queasy; nausea; qualmishness; squeamishness. Shak.
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