Webster's Dictionary 1828

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QUARRELOUS

QUAR'RELOUS, adjective Apt or disposed to quarrel; petulant; easily provoked to enmity or contention. [Little used.]

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QUARRELSOME

QUAR'RELSOME, adjective Apt to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; inclined to petty fighting; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric; petulant.

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QUARRELSOMELY

QUAR'RELSOMELY, adverb In a quarrelsome manner; with a quarrelsome temper; petulantly.

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QUARRELSOMENESS

QUAR'RELSOMENESS, noun Disposition to engage in contention and brawls; petulance.

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QUARRIED

QUAR'RIED, participle passive Dug from a pit or cavern.

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QUARRY

QUAR'RY, noun1. A square; as a quarry of glass. [Not in use.]2. An arrow with a square head. [See Quarrel. Not in use.]3. In falconry, the game which a hawk is pursuing or has k...

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QUARRYING

QUAR'RYING, participle present tense Digging stones from a quarry.

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QUARRYMAN

QUAR'RYMAN, noun A man who is occupied in quarrying stones.

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QUART

QUART, noun quort. [Latin quartus.]1. The fourth part; a quarter. [Not in use.]2. The fourth part of a gallon; two pints.3. A vessel containing the fourth of a gallon.4. A seque...

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QUARTAN

QUARTAN, quort'an. [Latin quartanus, the fourth.]Designating the fourth; occurring every fourth day; as a quartan ague or fever.QUART'AN, noun1. An intermitting ague that occurs...

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QUARTATION

QUARTA'TION, noun In chimistry and metallurgy, the operation by which the quantity of one thing is made equal to the fourth part of another thing.

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QUARTER

QUARTER, noun quort'er. [Latin quartus, the fourth part.]1. The fourth part; as the quarter of an hour or of a mile; one quarter of the expense. Living is a quarter dearer in th...

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QUARTER-DAY

QUARTER-DAY, noun The day that completes three months, the quarter of a year; the day when quarterly payments are made of rent or interest.

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QUARTERAGE

QUART'ERAGE, noun A quarterly allowance.

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QUARTERED

QUART'ERED, participle passive Divided into four equal parts or quarters; separated into distinct parts; lodged; stationed for lodging.

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QUARTERING

QUART'ERING, participle present tense Dividing into quarters or into distinct parts; stationing for lodgings.QUART'ERING, noun1. A station.2. Assignment of quarters for soldiers...

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QUARTERLY

QUART'ERLY, adjective1. Containing or consisting of a fourth part; as quarterly seasons.2. Recurring at the end of each quarter of the year; as quarterly payments of rent; a qua...

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QUARTERN

QUART'ERN, noun The fourth part of a pint; a gill.

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QUARTILE

QUART'ILE, noun An aspect of the planets, when they are distant from each other a quarter of the circle, ninety degrees, or three signs.

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QUARTO

QUART'O, noun [Latin quartus.] A book of the size of the fourth of a sheet; a size made by twice folding a sheet, which then makes four leaves.QUART'O, adjective Denoting the si...

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QUARTZ

QUARTZ, noun quortz. A species of silicious minerals, of various colors, white, gray, reddish, yellowish or brownish; commonly amorphous, and frequently crystallized. The subspe...

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QUARTZY

QUARTZ'Y, adjective Pertaining to quartz; partaking of the nature or qualities of quartz; resembling quartz. [Quartzy is the regular adjective, and quartzose and quartzous may b...

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QUAS

QUAS, noun In Russia, a drink of common domestic use; being a liquor prepared from pollard, meal and bread, or from meal and malt, by an acid fermentation.

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QUASH

QUASH, verb transitive [Latin quasso, quatio.]1. Properly, to beat down or beat in pieces; to crush.The whales against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quash'd.2. To crush; to...

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QUASHED

QUASH'ED, participle passive Crushed; subdued; abated.

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QUASHING

QUASH'ING, participle present tense Crushing; subduing; abating.

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QUASSATION

QUASSA'TION, noun [Latin quassatio.] The act of shaking; concussion; the state of being shaken.