Quenelle () A kind of delicate forcemeat, commonly poached and used as a dish by itself or for garnishing.

Quenouille training () A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.

Quercitannic () Pertaining to, or designating, a tannic acid found in oak bark and extracted as a yellowish brown amorphous substance.

Quercite () A white crystalline substance, C6H7(OH)5, found in acorns, the fruit of the oak (Quercus). It has a sweet taste, and is regarded as a pentacid alcohol.

Quercitin () A yellow crystalline substance, occurring quite widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, as is apple-tree bark, horse-chestnut leaves, etc., but originally obtained by the decomposition of quercitrin. Called also meletin.

Quercitrin () A glucoside extracted from the bark of the oak (Quercus) as a bitter citron-yellow crystalline substance, used as a pigment and called quercitron.

Quercitron () The yellow inner bark of the Quercus tinctoria, the American black oak, yellow oak, dyer's oak, or quercitron oak, a large forest tree growing from Maine to eastern Texas.

Quercitron () Quercitrin, used as a pigment. See Quercitrin.

Quercus () A genus of trees constituted by the oak. See Oak.

Querele () A complaint to a court. See Audita Querela.

Querent () A complainant; a plaintiff.

Querent () An inquirer.

Quermonious () Complaining; querulous; apt to complain.

Querimony () A complaint or complaining.

Querist () One who inquires, or asks questions.

Querken () To stifle or choke.

Querl () To twirl; to turn or wind round; to coil; as, to querl a cord, thread, or rope.

Querl () A coil; a twirl; as, the qwerl of hair on the fore leg of a blooded horse.

Quern () A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills.

Querpo () The inner or body garments taken together. See Cuerpo.

Querquedule () A teal.

Querquedule () The pintail duck.

Querry () A groom; an equerry.

Querulential () Querulous.

Querulous () Given to quarreling; quarrelsome.

Querulous () Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to murmur; as, a querulous man or people.

Querulous () Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous tone of voice.

Queries () of Query

Query () A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.

Query () A question in the mind; a doubt; as, I have a query about his sincerity.

Query () An interrogation point [?] as the sign of a question or a doubt.

Query () To ask questions; to make inquiry.

Query () To have a doubt; as, I query if he is right.

Queried () of Query

Querying () of Query

Query () To put questions about; to elicit by questioning; to inquire into; as, to query the items or the amount; to query the motive or the fact.

Query () To address questions to; to examine by questions.

Query () To doubt of; to regard with incredulity.

Query () To write \" query\" (qu., qy., or ?) against, as a doubtful spelling, or sense, in a proof. See Quaere.

Quesal () The long-tailed, or resplendent, trogon (Pharomachus mocinno, formerly Trogon resplendens), native of Southern Mexico and Central America. Called also quetzal, and golden trogon.

Quest () The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.

Quest () Request; desire; solicitation.

Quest () Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively.

Quest () Inquest; jury of inquest.

Quest () To search for; to examine.

Quest () To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg.

Questant () One who undertakes a quest; a seeker.

Quester () One who seeks; a seeker.

Question () The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

Question () Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as, the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question.

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