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Quarte
() A position in thrusting or parrying, with the inside of the hand turned upward and the point of the weapon toward the adversary's right breast.
Qraspine
() of Grasp
Qua
() In so far as; in the capacity or character of; as.
Quab
() An unfledged bird; hence, something immature or unfinished.
Quab
() See Quob, v. i.
Qua-bird
() The American night heron. See under Night.
Quacha
() The quagga.
Qvacked
() of Quack
Quacking
() of Quack
Quack
() To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
Quack
() To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
Quack
() To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
Quack
() The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.
Quack
() A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
Quack
() Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.
Quack
() Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.
Quackeries
() of Quackery
Quackery
() The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism.
Quack grass
() See Quitch grass.
Quackish
() Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery.
Quackism
() Quackery.
Quackled
() of Quackle
Quackling
() of Quackle
Quackle
() To suffocate; to choke.
Quacksalver
() One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank.
Quad
() Alt. of Quade
Quade
() Evil; bad; baffling; as, a quade wind.
Quad
() A quadrat.
Quad
() A quadrangle; hence, a prison.
Quadrae
() of Quadra
Quadra
() The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like.
Quadra
() A fillet, or listel.
Quadrable
() That may be sqyared, or reduced to an equivalent square; -- said of a surface when the area limited by a curve can be exactly found, and expressed in a finite number of algebraic terms.
Quadragenarious
() Consisting of forty; forty years old.
Quadragene
() An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance.
Quadragesima
() The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent.
Quadragesimal
() Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten.
Quadragesimals
() Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.
Quadrangle
() A plane figure having four angles, and consequently four sides; any figure having four angles.
Quadrangle
() A square or quadrangular space or inclosure, such a space or court surrounded by buildings, esp. such a court in a college or public school in England.
Quadrangular
() Having four angles, and consequently four sides; tetragonal.
Quadrantes
() of Quadrans
Quadrans
() A fourth part of the coin called an as. See 3d As, 2.
Quadrans
() The fourth of a penny; a farthing. See Cur.
Quadrant
() The fourth part; the quarter.
Quadrant
() The quarter of a circle, or of the circumference of a circle, an arc of 90¡, or one subtending a right angle at the center.
Quadrant
() One of the four parts into which a plane is divided by the coordinate axes. The upper right-hand part is the first quadrant; the upper left-hand part the second; the lower left-hand part the third; and the lower right-hand part the fourth quadrant.
Quadrant
() An instrument for measuring altitudes, variously constructed and mounted for different specific uses in astronomy, surveying, gunnery, etc., consisting commonly of a graduated arc of 90¡, with an index or vernier, and either plain or telescopic sights, and usually having a plumb line or spirit level for fixing the vertical or horizontal direction.
Quadrantal
() Of or pertaining to a quadrant; also, included in the fourth part of a circle; as, quadrantal space.
Quadrantal
() A cubical vessel containing a Roman cubic foot, each side being a Roman square foot; -- used as a measure.