Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter Q - Page 5
Quarter round () (Arch.) An ovolo.
Quarter round (n.) A convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse [syn: ovolo, thumb, quarter round].
Quarterstaves (n. pl. ) of Quarterstaff.
Quarterstaff (n.) A long and stout staff formerly used as a weapon of defense and offense; -- so called because in holding it one hand was placed in the middle, and the other between the middle and the end. Quartet
Quartet (n.) Alt. of Quartette.
Quartette (n.) (Mus.) A composition in four parts, each performed by a single voice or instrument.
Quartette (n.) (Mus.) The set of four person who perform a piece of music in four parts.
Quartette (n.) (Poet.) A stanza of four lines.
Quartet (n.) The cardinal number that is the sum of three and one [syn: four, 4, IV, tetrad, quatern, quaternion, quaternary, quaternity, quartet, quadruplet, foursome, Little Joe].
Quartet (n.) Four performers or singers who perform together [syn: quartet, quartette].
Quartet (n.) A set of four similar things considered as a unit [syn: quartet, quartette, quadruplet, quadruple].
Quartet (n.) Four people considered as a unit; "he joined a barbershop quartet"; "the foursome teed off before 9 a.m." [syn: quartet, quartette, foursome].
Quartet (n.) A musical composition for four performers [syn: quartet, quartette].
Quartic (a.) (Mach.) Of the fourth degree.
Quartic (n.) (Alg.) A quantic of the fourth degree. See Quantic.
Quartic (n.) (Geom.) A curve or surface whose equation is of the fourth degree in the variables.
Quartic (n.) An algebraic equation of the fourth degree [syn: biquadrate, biquadratic, quartic, fourth power].
Quartile (n.) (Astrol.) Same as Quadrate.
Quartile (n.) (Statistics) Any of three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts each containing one quarter of the scores.
Quartine (n.) (Bot.) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.
Quarto (a.) Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto.
Quartos (n. pl. ) of Quarto.
Quarto (n.) Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size.
Quarto (n.) The size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves [syn: quarto, 4to].
Quartridge (n.) Quarterage. [Obs.]
Quartz (n.) (Min.) A form of silica, or silicon dioxide ({SiO2), occurring in hexagonal crystals, which are commonly colorless and transparent, but sometimes also yellow, brown, purple, green, and of other colors; also in cryptocrystalline massive forms varying in color and degree of transparency, being sometimes opaque.
Note: The crystalline varieties include: amethyst, violet; citrine and false topaz, pale yellow; rock crystal, transparent and colorless or nearly so; rose quartz, rosecolored; smoky quartz, smoky brown. The chief crypto-crystalline varieties are: agate, a chalcedony in layers or clouded with different colors, including the onyx and sardonyx; carnelian and sard, red or flesh-colored chalcedony; chalcedony, nearly white, and waxy in luster; chrysoprase, an apple-green chalcedony; flint, hornstone, basanite, or touchstone, brown to black in color and compact in texture; heliotrope, green dotted with red; jasper, opaque, red yellow, or brown, colored by iron or ferruginous clay; prase, translucent and dull leek-green. Quartz is an essential constituent of granite, and abounds in rocks of all ages. It forms the rocks quartzite (quartz rock) and sandstone, and makes most of the sand of the seashore.
Quartz (n.) Colorless glass made of almost pure silica [syn: quartz glass, quartz, vitreous silica, lechatelierite, crystal].
Quartz (n.) A hard glossy mineral consisting of silicon dioxide in crystal form; present in most rocks (especially sandstone and granite); yellow sand is quartz with iron oxide impurities.
Quartziferous (a.) (Min.) Consisting chiefly of quartz; containing quartz.
Quartzite (n.) (Min.) Massive quartz occurring as a rock; a metamorphosed sandstone; -- called also quartz rock.
Quartzite (n.) Hard metamorphic rock consisting essentially of interlocking quartz crystals.
Quartzoid (n.) (Crystallog.) A form of crystal common with quartz, consisting of two six-sided pyramids, base to base.
Quartzose (a.) (Min.) Containing, or resembling, quartz; partaking of the nature or qualities of quartz.
Quartzose (a.) Relating to or made of quartz.
Quartzous (a.) (Min.) Quarzose.
Quartzy (a.) (Min.) Quartzose.
Compare: Kvass
kvass (n.) A thin, sour beer, made by pouring warm water on rye or barley meal and letting it ferment, -- much used by the Russians. [written also quas and quass.]
Compare: Quass
Quass (n.) A thin, sour beer, made by pouring warm water on rye or barley meal and letting it ferment, -- much used by the Russians. Called also kvass. [written also kvass and quas.]
Quas (n.) A kind of beer. Same as Quass.
Quasar (n.) 【天】類星體 A starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; many have large red shifts [syn: quasar, quasi-stellar radio source].
Quaschi (n.) Alt. of Quasje.
Quasje (n.) The brown coati. See Coati.
Quash (n.) Same as Squash.
Quashed (imp. & p. p.) of Quash.
Quashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quash.
Quash (v. t.) To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment.
Quash (v. t.) To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to crush.
Quash (v. t.) To crush; to subdue; to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely; as, to quash a rebellion.
Quash (v. i.) To be shaken, or dashed about, with noise.
Quashee (n.) A negro of the West Indies.
Quasi () As if; as though; as it were; in a manner sense or degree; having some resemblance to; qualified; -- used as an adjective, or a prefix with a noun or an adjective; as, a quasi contract, an implied contract, an obligation which has arisen from some act, as if from a contract; a quasi corporation, a body that has some, but not all, of the peculiar attributes of a corporation; a quasi argument, that which resembles, or is used as, an argument; quasi historical, apparently historical, seeming to be historical.
Quasimodo (n.) The first Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.
Quass (n.) A thin, sour beer, made by pouring warm water on rye or barley meal and letting it ferment, -- much used by the Russians.
Quassation (n.) The act of shaking, or the state of being shaken.
Quassia (n.) The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarubeae, as Quassia amara, Picraena excelsa, and Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer.
Quassin (n.) The bitter principle of quassia, extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called quassite.
Quat (n.) A pustule.
Quat (n.) An annoying, worthless person.
Quat (v. t.) To satiate; to satisfy.
Quata (n.) The coaita.
Quatch (a.) Squat; flat.
Quater-cousin (n.) A cousin within the first four degrees of kindred.
Quaternary (a.) 四個一組的；由四部分組成的；【數】四進位位的；（Q-）【地】第四紀的；【化】由四元素（或四基）構成的 Consisting of four; by fours, or in sets of four.
Quaternary (a.) Later than, or subsequent to, the Tertiary; Post-tertiary; as, the Quaternary age, or Age of man.
Quaternary (n.) 四個一組；四；（Q-）【地】第四紀 The number four.
Quaternary (n.) The Quaternary age, era, or formation. See the Chart of Geology.
Quaternary (a.) Consisting of four; by fours, or in sets of four.
Quaternary (a.) (Geol.) Later than, or subsequent to, the Tertiary; Post-tertiary; as, the Quaternary age, or Age of man.
Quaternary (a.) Consisting of or especially arranged in sets of four; "quaternate leaves"; "a quaternary compound" [syn: {quaternate}, {quaternary}].
Quaternary (a.) Coming next after the third and just before the fifth in position or time or degree or magnitude; "the quaternary period of geologic time extends from the end of the tertiary period to the present" [syn: {fourth}, {4th}, {quaternary}].
Quaternary (n.) Last 2 million years [syn: {Quaternary}, {Quaternary period}, {Age of Man}].
Quaternary (n.) The cardinal number that is the sum of three and one [syn: {four}, {4}, {IV}, {tetrad}, {quatern}, {quaternion}, {quaternary}, {quaternity}, {quartet}, {quadruplet}, {foursome}, {Little Joe}].
Quaternate (a.) Composed of, or arranged in, sets of four; quaternary; as, quaternate leaves.
Quaternion (n.) 四個一組；四人一組；【數】四元數 The number four.
Quaternion (n.) A set of four parts, things, or person; four things taken collectively; a group of four words, phrases, circumstances, facts, or the like.
Quaternion (n.) A word of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.
Quaternion (n.) The quotient of two vectors, or of two directed right lines in space, considered as depending on four geometrical elements, and as expressible by an algebraic symbol of quadrinomial form.
Quaternion (v. t.) To divide into quaternions, files, or companies.
Quaternion (n.) The cardinal number that is the sum of three and one [syn: {four}, {4}, {IV}, {tetrad}, {quatern}, {quaternion}, {quaternary}, {quaternity}, {quartet}, {quadruplet}, {foursome}, {Little Joe}].
Quaternity (n.) The number four.
Quaternity (n.) The union of four in one, as of four persons; -- analogous to the theological term trinity.
Quateron (n.) See 2d Quarteron.
Quatorzain (n.) A poem of fourteen lines; a sonnet.
Quatorze (n.) The four aces, kings, queens, knaves, or tens, in the game of piquet; -- so called because quatorze counts as fourteen points.
Quatrain (n.) A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately.
Quatre (n.) A card, die. or domino, having four spots, or pips
Quatrefeuille (n.) Alt. of Quatrefoil.
Quatrefoil (n.) Same as Quarterfoil.
Quatuor (n.) A quartet; -- applied chiefly to instrumental compositions.
Quave (n.) See Quaver.
Quave (v. i.) To quaver.
Quavemire (n.) See Quagmire.
Quavered (imp. & p. p.) of Quaver.
Quavering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quaver.
Quaver (v. i.) To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.
Quaver (v. i.) Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument
Quaver (v. t.) To utter with quavers.
Quaver (n.) A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music.
Quaver (n.) An eighth note. See Eighth.
Quaverer (n.) One who quavers; a warbler.
Quay (n.) A mole, bank, or wharf, formed toward the sea, or at the side of a harbor, river, or other navigable water, for convenience in loading and unloading vessels.
Quay (v. t.) To furnish with quays.
Quayage (n.) Wharfage.
Quayd () p. p. of Quail.
Que (n.) A half farthing.
Queach (n.) A thick, bushy plot; a thicket.
Queach (v. i.) To stir; to move. See Quick, v. i.
Queachy (a.) Yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy ground; shaking; moving.
Queachy (a.) Like a queach; thick; bushy.
Quean (n.) A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl.
Quean (n.) A low woman; a wench; a slut.
Queasily (adv.) In a queasy manner.
Queasiness (n.) The state of being queasy; nausea; qualmishness; squeamishness.
Queasy (a.) Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; qualmish.
Queasy (a.) Fastidious; squeamish; delicate; easily disturbed; unsettled; ticklish. " A queasy question." -- Shak.
Some seek, when queasy conscience has its qualms. -- Cowper.
Queasy (a.) Causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile].
Queasy (a.) Feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit [syn: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish].
Queasy (a.) Causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind" [syn: anxious, nervous, queasy, uneasy, unquiet].
Quebec group () The middle of the three groups into which the rocks of the Canadian period have been divided in the American Lower Silurian system. See the Chart of Geology.
Quebracho (n.) [Sp.] (Bot.) A Chilian apocynaceous tree ({Aspidosperma Quebracho); also, its bark, which is used as a febrifuge, and for dyspn[oe]a of the lung, or bronchial diseases; -- called also white quebracho, to distinguish it from the red quebracho, a Mexican anacardiaceous tree ({Loxopterygium Lorentzii) whose bark is said to have similar properties. -- J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants).
Quebrith (n.) Sulphur.
Quech (v. i.) Alt. of Queck.
Queck (v. i.) A word occurring in a corrupt passage of Bacon's Essays, and probably meaning, to stir, to move.
Queen (n.) The wife of a king.
Queen (n.) A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots.
Queen (n.) A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind; as, a queen in society; -- also used figuratively of cities, countries, etc.