Quell (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Quelled (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Quelling.] [See Quail to cower.]
1. To die.
Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell. Spenser.
2. To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate.
Winter's wrath begins to quell. Spenser.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.