Webster's Dictionary 1828

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QUIB

QUIB, nounA sarcasm; a bitter taunt; a quip; a gibe.

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QUIBBLE

QUIB'BLE, noun1. A start or turn from the point in question, or from plain truth; an evasion; a cavil; a pretense; as, to answer a sound argument by quibbles.Quirks and quibbles...

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QUIBBLER

QUIB'BLER, noun1. One who evades plain truth by trifling artifices, play upon words, or cavils.2. A punster.

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QUICK

QUICK, verb intransitiveTo stir; to move. [Not in use.]QUICK, adjective [If q is a dialectical prefix, as I suppose, this word coincides with the Latin vigeo, vegeo, and vig, ve...

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QUICK-GRASS

QUICK-GRASS. [See Quitch-grass.]

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QUICK-MATCH

QUICK-MATCH, noun [See Match.] A combustible preparation formed of cotton strands dipped in a boiling composition of white vinegar, saltpeter and mealed powder; used by artiller...

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QUICK-SIGHTED

QUICK'-SIGHTED, adjective Having quick sight or acute discernment; quick to see or discern.

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QUICKEN

QUICKEN, verb transitive quik'n.1. Primarily, to make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state. Romans 4:17.Hence flocks and herds, and me...

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QUICKEN-TREE

QUICK'EN-TREE, noun A tree, the wild sorb, a species of wild ash.the Sorbus aucuparia, or mountain ash, a species of service tree.

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QUICKENED

QUICK'ENED, participle passive1. Made alive; revived; vivified; reinvigorated.2. Accelerated; hastened.3. Stimulated; incited.

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QUICKENER

QUICK'ENER, noun1. One who revives, vivifies, or communicates life.2. That which reinvigorates.3. That which accelerates motion or increases activity.

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QUICKENING

QUICK'ENING, participle present tense Giving life; accelerating; inciting.QUICK'-EYED, adjective Having acute sight; of keen and ready perception.

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QUICKLIME

QUICK'LIME, noun [See Lime.] Any calcarious substance deprived of its fixed or carbonic air, or an earthy substance calcined; as chalk, limestone, oyster-shells, etc.; unslaked ...

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QUICKLY

QUICK'LY, adverb1. Speedily; with haste or celerity.2. Soon; without delay.

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QUICKNESS

QUICK'NESS, noun1. Speed; velocity; celerity; rapidity; as the quickness of motion.2. Activity; briskness; promptness, as the quickness of the imagination or wit.3. Acuteness of...

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QUICKSAND

QUICK'SAND, noun1. Sand easily moved or readily yielding to pressure, loose sand abounding with water.2. Unsolid ground.

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QUICKSCENTED

QUICK'SCENTED, adjective Having an acute perception by the nose; of an acute smell.

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QUICKSET

QUICK'SET, noun A living plant set to grow, particularly for a hedge.QUICK'SET, verb transitive To plant with living shrubs or trees for a hedge or fence; as, to quickset a ditch.

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QUICKSIGHTEDNESS

QUICK'SIGHTEDNESS, noun Quickness of sight or discernment; readiness to see or discern.

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QUICKSILVER

QUICK'SILVER, noun [that is, living silver, argentum vivum, so called from its fluidity.]Mercury, a metal found both native and in the state of ore, in mines, in various parts o...

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QUICKSILVERED

QUICK'SILVERED, adjective Overlaid with quicksilver.QUICK'-WITTED, adjective Having ready wit.

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QUID

QUID, noun A vulgar pronunciation of cud; as a quid of tobacco.

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QUIDAM

QUI'DAM, noun [Latin] Somebody. [Not in use.]

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QUIDDANY

QUID'DANY, noun [Latin cydonium.]Marmalade; a confection of quinces prepared with sugar.

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QUIDDATIVE

QUID'DATIVE, adjective Constituting the essence of a thing.

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QUIDDIT

QUID'DIT, noun [Latin quidlibet.] A subtilty; an equivocation. [Not in use.]

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QUIDDITY

QUID'DITY, noun [Latin quid, what.]1. A barbarous term used in school philosophy for essence, that unknown and undefinable something which constitutes its peculiar nature, or an...