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Quittance
() Discharge from a debt or an obligation; acquittance.
Quittance
() Recompense; return; repayment.
Quittance
() To repay; to requite.
Quitter
() One who quits.
Quitter
() A deliverer.
Quittor
() A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone.
Quitture
() A discharge; an issue.
Quiver
() Nimble; active.
Quivered
() of Quiver
Quivering
() of Quiver
Quiver
() To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
Quiver
() The act or state of quivering; a tremor.
Quiver
() A case or sheath for arrows to be carried on the person.
Quivered
() Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver.
Quivered
() Sheathed, as in a quiver.
Quiveringly
() With quivering motion.
Qui vive
() The challenge of a French sentinel, or patrol; -- used like the English challenge: \"Who comes there?\"
Quixotic
() Like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded.
Quixotically
() In a quixotic way.
Quixotism
() That form of delusion which leads to extravagant and absurd undertakings or sacrifices in obedience to a morbidly romantic ideal of duty or honor, as illustrated by the exploits of Don Quixote in knight-errantry.
Quixotry
() Quixotism; visionary schemes.
Quiz
() A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.
Quiz
() One who quizzes others; as, he is a great quiz.
Quiz
() An odd or absurd fellow.
Quiz
() An exercise, or a course of exercises, conducted as a coaching or as an examination.
Quizzed
() of Quiz
Quizzing
() of Quiz
Quiz
() To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
Quiz
() To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
Quiz
() To instruct in or by a quiz. See Quiz, n., 4.
Quiz
() To conduct a quiz. See Quiz, n., 4.
Quizzer
() One who quizzes; a quiz.
Quizzical
() Relating to quizzing: given to quizzing; of the nature of a quiz; farcical; sportive.
Quizzism
() The act or habit of quizzing.
Quob
() To throb; to quiver.
Quod
() A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; hence, a prison.
Quod
() Quoth; said. See Quoth.
Quoddies
() Herring taken and cured or smoked near Quoddy Head, Maine, or near the entrance of Passamaquoddy Ray.
Quodlibet
() A nice point; a subtilty; a debatable point.
Quodlibet
() A medley improvised by several performers.
Quodlibetarian
() One who discusses any subject at pleasure.
Quodlibetical
() Not restricted to a particular subject; discussed for curiosity or entertainment.
Quoif
() See Coif.
Quoifffure
() See Coiffure.
Quoil
() See Coil.
Quoin
() Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked.
Quoin
() A wedgelike piece of stone, wood metal, or other material, used for various purposes
Quoin
() to support and steady a stone.
Quoin
() To support the breech of a cannon.
Quoin
() To wedge or lock up a form within a chase.
