Dictionary entry

Quiesce

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Qui‐esce″ (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Quiesced (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Quiescing (?).] [L. quiescere, akin to quies rest, quiet. See Quiet, a. & n.] To be silent, as a letter; to have no sound. M. Stuart.