Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Quittal

Quit″tal (–tal), n. Return; requital; quittance.

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Quittance

Quit″tance (–tans), n. [OE. quitaunce, OF. quitance, F. quittance. See Quit, v. t.] 1. Discharge from a debt or an obligation; acquittance.Omittance is no quittance. Shak.2. Rec...

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Quittance (2)

Quit″tance, v. t. To repay; to requite. Shak.

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Quitter

Quit″ter (–tẽr), n. 1. One who quits.2. A deliverer. Ainsworth.

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Quittor

Quit″tor (–tẽr), n. [Perhaps for quitture.] (Far.) A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coff...

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Quittuple-nerved

{ Quit″tu‐ple–nerved′ (?), Quin″tu‐ple–ribbed′ (?), } a.(Bot.) The same as Quinquenerved.

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Quitture

Quit″ture (–tū̍r; 135), n. A discharge; an issue.To cleanse the quitture from thy wound. Chapman.

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Quiver

Quiv″er (kwĭv″ẽr), a. [Akin to AS. cwiferlice anxiously; cf. OD. kuiven, kuiveren. Cf. Quaver.] Nimble; active. “ A little quiver fellow.” Shak.

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Quiver (2)

Quiv″er, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Quivered (–ẽrd); p. pr. & vb. n.Quivering.] [Cf. Quaver.] To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shi...

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Quiver (3)

Quiv″er, n. The act or state of quivering; a tremor.

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Quiver (4)

Quiv″er, n. [OF. cuivre, cuevre, coivre, LL. cucurum, fr. OHG. chohhāri quiver, receptacle, G. köcher quiver; akin to AS. cocor, cocur, cocer, D. koker. Cf. Cocker a high shoe.]...

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Quivered

Quiv″ered (–ẽrd), a. 1. Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver. “Like a quivered nymph with arrows keen.” Milton.2. Sheathed, as in a quiver. “Whose quills stand quivered at his ...

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Quiveringly

Quiv″er‐ing‐ly (–ẽr‐ĭng‐ly̆), adv. With quivering motion.

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Quixotic

Quix‐ot″ic (kwĭks‐ŏt″ĭk), a. Like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded. “Feats of quixotic gallantry.” Prescott.

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Quixotically

Quix‐ot″ic‐al‐ly (–ĭ‐kal‐ly̆), adv. In a quixotic way.

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Quixotism

Quix″ot‐ism (kwĭks″ŏt‐ĭz'm), n. That form of delusion which leads to extravagant and absurd undertakings or sacrifices in obedience to a morbidly romantic ideal of duty or honor...

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Quixotry

Quix″ot‐ry (–ry̆), n. Quixotism; visionary schemes.

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Quiz

Quiz (kwĭz), n. [It is said that Daly, the manager of a Dublin playhouse, laid a wager that a new word of no meaning should be the common talk and puzzle of the city in twenty-f...

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Quiz (2)

Quiz (kwĭz), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Quizzed (kwĭzd); p. pr. & vb. n.Quizzing (–zĭng).] 1. To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make spo...

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Quiz (3)

Quiz, v. i. To conduct a quiz. See Quiz, n., 4.

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Quizzer

Quiz″zer (–zẽr), n. One who quizzes; a quiz.

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Quizzical

Quiz″zic‐al (–zĭ‐kal), a. Relating to quizzing; given to quizzing; of the nature of a quiz; farcical; sportive.— Quiz″zic‐al‐ly, adv.

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Quizzism

Quiz″zism (–zĭz'm), n. The act or habit of quizzing.

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Quo warranto

‖Quo′ war‐ran″to (kwō′ wŏr‐răn″tō̍). [So called from the Law L. words quo warranto (by what authority), in the original Latin form of the writ. See Which, and Warrant.] (Law) A ...

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Quob

Quob (kwŏb), v. i. [Cf. Quaver.] [Written also quop and quab.] To throb; to quiver.

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Quod

Quod (kwŏd), n. [For quad, abbrev. of quadrangle.] A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; hence, a prison. “Flogged or whipped in quod.” T. Hughes.

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Quod (2)

Quod, v. Quoth; said. See Quoth.“Let be,” quod he, “it shall not be.” Chaucer.