Webster's Dictionary 1828

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QUADRUMANOUS

QUAD'RUMANOUS, adjective Having four hands; four-handed.

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QUADRUNE

QUAD'RUNE, noun A gritstone with a calcarious cement.

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QUADRUPED

QUAD'RUPED, adjective [Latin quadrupes; quadra, quatuor, four, and pes, foot.] Having four legs and feet.QUAD'RUPED, noun An animal having four legs and feet, as a horse, an ox,...

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QUADRUPLE

QUAD'RUPLE, adjective [Latin quadruplus; quadra, quatuor, and plico, to fold.]Fourfold; four times told; as, to make quadruple restitution for trespass or theft.QUAD'RUPLE, noun...

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QUADRUPLICATE

QUADRU'PLICATE, adjective Fourfold; four times repeated; as a quadruplicate ratio or proportion.QUADRU'PLICATE, verb transitive [Latin quadruplico; quatuor and plico, to fold.] ...

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QUADRUPLICATION

QUADRUPLICA'TION, noun The act of making fourfold and taking four times the simple sum or amount.

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QUADRUPLY

QUAD'RUPLY, adverb To a fourfold quantity; as, to be quadruply recompensed.

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QUAERE

QUAERE, [Latin] Inquire; better written query, which see.

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QUAESTOR

QUAESTOR. [See Questor.]

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QUAFF

QU'AFF, verb transitiveTo drink; to swallow in large draughts.He quaffs the muscadel.They in communion sweet quaff immortality and joy.QU'AFF, verb intransitive To drink largely...

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QUAFFED

QU'AFFED, participle passive Drank; swallowed in large draughts.

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QUAFFER

QU'AFFER, noun One that quaffs or drinks largely.QU'AFFER, verb transitive To feel out. [Not in use.]

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QUAFFING

QU'AFFING, participle present tense Drinking; swallowing draughts.

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QUAGGY

QUAG'GY, adjective [supposed to be from the root of quake.]Yielding to the feet or trembling under the foot, as soft wet earth.

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QUAGMIRE

QUAG'MIRE, noun [that is, quake-mire.] Soft wet land, which has a surface firm enough to bear a person, but which shakes or yields under the feet.

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QUAHAUG

QUAHAUG, noun quaw'hog. In New England, the popular name of a large species of clams or bivalvular shells. [This name is probably derived from the natives.]

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QUAID

QUAID, adjective or participle passive [for quailed.] Crushed, subdued, or depressed. [Not used.]

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QUAIL

QUAIL, verb intransitive [Quail, in English, signifies to sink or languish, to curdle, and to crush or quell.]1. To sink into dejection; to languish; to fail in spirits. [Little...

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QUAIL-PIPE

QUA'IL-PIPE, noun A pipe or call for alluring quails into a net; a kind of leathern purse in the shape of a pear, partly filled with horse hair, with a whistle at the end.

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QUAILING

QUA'ILING, participle present tense Failing; languishing. obsoleteQUA'ILING, noun The act of failing in spirit or resolution; decay. obsolete

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QUAINT

QUAINT, adjective [The latter word would lead us to refer quaint to the Latin accinctus, ready, but Skinner thinks it more probably from comptus, neat, well dressed.]1. Nice; sc...

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QUAINTLY

QUA'INTLY, adverb1. Nicely; exactly; with petty neatness or spruceness; as hair more quaintly curled.2. Artfully.Breathe his faults so quaintly3. Ingeniously; with dexterity.I q...

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QUAINTNESS

QUA'INTNESS, noun1. Niceness; petty neatness or elegance.There is a majesty in simplicity, which is far above the quaintness of wit.2. Oddness; peculiarity.

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QUAKE

QUAKE, verb intransitive1. To shake; to tremble; to be agitated with quick but short motions continually repeated; to shudder. Thus we say, a person quakes with fear or terror, ...

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QUAKER

QUA'KER, noun One that quakes; but usually, one of the religious sect called friends. This name, quakers, is said to have been given to the sect in reproach, an account of some ...

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QUAKERISM

QUA'KERISM, noun The peculiar manners, tenets or worship of the quakers.

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QUAKERLY

QUA'KERLY, adjective Resembling quakers.