Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter Q - Page 8
Quid (n.) A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco.
Quid (n.; pl. quid.) [Etym. uncertain.] An English coin, a sovereign. [Slang, Eng.]
They invited him to come to-morrow, . . . and bring half a quid with him. -- Charles Reade.
Quid (v. t.) (Man.) To drop from the mouth, as food when partially chewed; -- said of horses. --Youatt.
Quid (n.) The basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence [syn: British pound, pound, British pound sterling, pound sterling, quid].
Quid (n.) Something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something he does or gives or promises [syn: quid pro quo, quid].
Quid (n.) A wad of something chewable as tobacco [syn: chew, chaw, cud, quid, plug, wad].
Quidam (n.) [L.] Somebody; one unknown. -- Spenser.
Quidam, () French law. Some, one; somebody. This Latin word is used to express an unknown person, or one who cannot be named.
Quidam, () A quidam is usually described by the features of his face, the color of his hair, his height, his clothing, and the like in any process which may be issued against him. Merl. Repert. h.t.; Encyclopedie, h.t.
Quidam, () A warrant directing the officer to arrest the "associates" of persons named, without naming them, is void. 3 Munf. 458.
Quiddany (n.) A confection of quinces, in consistency between a sirup and marmalade.
Quiddative (a.) Constituting, or containing, the essence of a thing; quidditative.
Quiddit (n.) A subtilty; an equivocation. [Obs.] -- Shak.
By some strange quiddit or some wrested clause. -- Drayton.
Quidditative (a.) Quiddative.
Quiddities (n. pl. ) of Quiddity.
Quiddity (n.) The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or, What is it? " The degree of nullity and quiddity." -- Bacon.
The quiddity or characteristic difference of poetry as distinguished from prose. -- De Quincey.
Quiddity (n.) A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble.
We laugh at the quiddities of those writers now. -- Coleridge.
Quiddity (n.) An evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections [syn: quibble, quiddity, cavil].
Quiddity (n.) The essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other [syn: quiddity, haecceity].
Quiddled (imp. & p. p.) of Quiddle.
Quiddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quiddle.
Quiddle (v. i.) [L. quid what.] To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle. Quiddle
Quiddle (n.) Alt. of Quiddler.
Quiddler (n.) One who wastes his energy about trifles. -- Emerson.
Quidnunc (n.) [L., what now?] One who is curious to know everything that passes; one who knows, or pretends to know, all that is going on. "The idle stories of quidnuncs." -- Motley.
Quidnunc (n.) A person who meddles in the affairs of others [syn: busybody, nosy-parker, nosey-parker, quidnunc].
Quiesced (imp. & p. p.) of Quiesce.
Quiescing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quiesce.
Quiesce (a. & n.) To be silent, as a letter; to have no sound. -- M. Stuart. Quiescence
Quiesce (v.) Become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered" [syn: quieten, hush, quiet, quiesce, quiet down, pipe down] [ant: louden]
Quiescence (n.) Alt. of Quiescency.
Quiescency (n.) The state or quality of being quiescent. "Quiescence, bodily and mental." -- H. Spencer.
Deeds will be done; -- while be boasts his quiescence. -- R. Browning.
Quiescence (n.) A state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction; "the volcano erupted after centuries of dormancy" [syn: dormancy, quiescence, quiescency].
Quiescence (n.) Quiet and inactive restfulness [syn: quiescence, quiescency, dormancy, sleeping].
Quiescent (a.) Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; not moving; as, a quiescent body or fluid.
Quiescent (a.) Not ruffed with passion; unagitated; not in action; not excited; quiet; dormant; resting.
In times of national security, the feeling of patriotism . . . is so quiescent that it seems hardly to exist. -- Prof. Wilson.
Quiescent (a.) (Gram.) Not sounded; silent; as, y is quiescent in "day" and "say."
Quiescent (n.) (Gram.) A silent letter. -- M. Stuart.
Quiescent (a.) Not active or activated; "the quiescent level of centimeter wave-length solar radiation."
Quiescent (a.) Marked by a state of tranquil repose; "the quiescent melancholy of the town."
Quiescent (a.) Being quiet or still or inactive.
Quiescent (a.) (Pathology) Causing no symptoms; "a quiescent tumor."
Quiescently (adv.) In a quiescent manner.
Quiet (a.) In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air.
They . . . were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him. -- Judg. xvi. 2.
Quiet (a.) Free from noise or disturbance; hushed; still.
Quiet (a.) Not excited or anxious; calm; peaceful; placid; settled; as, a quiet life; a quiet conscience. " So quiet and so sweet a style." -- Shak.
That son, who on the quiet state of man Such trouble brought. -- Milton.
Quiet (a.) Not giving offense; not exciting disorder or trouble; not turbulent; gentle; mild; meek; contented.
The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. -- 1 Pet. iii. 4.
I will sit as quiet as a lamb. -- Shak.
Quiet (a.) Not showy; not such as to attract attention; undemonstrative; as, a quiet dress; quiet colors; a quiet movement.
Syn: Still; tranquil; calm; unruffled; smooth; unmolested; undisturbed; placid; peaceful; mild; peaceable; meek; contented.
Quiet (n.) The quality or state of being quiet, or in repose; as an hour or a time of quiet.
Quiet (n.) Freedom from disturbance, noise, or alarm; stillness; tranquillity; peace; security.
And join with thee, calm Peace and Quiet. -- Milton.
At quiet, still; peaceful.
In quiet, quietly. " I will depart in quiet." -- Shak.
Out of quiet, Disturbed; restless. [Obs.] "She is much out of quiet." -- Shak.
Quieted (imp. & p. p.) of Quiet.
Quieting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quiet.
Quiet (v. t.) To stop motion in; to still; to reduce to a state of rest, or of silence.
Quiet (v. t.) To calm; to appease; to pacify; to lull; to allay; to tranquillize; as, to quiet the passions; to quiet clamors or disorders; to quiet pain or grief.
Quiet yourselves, I pray, and be at peace. -- Shak.
Quiet (v. i.) To become still, silent, or calm; -- often with down; as, be soon quieted down.
Quiet (adv.) With little or no activity or no agitation (`quiet' is a nonstandard variant for `quietly'); "her hands rested quietly in her lap"; "the rock star was quietly led out the back door"; "sit here as quiet as you can" [syn: quietly, quiet] [ant: unquietly].
Quiet (a.) Characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity; "a quiet life"; "a quiet throng of onlookers"; "quiet peace-loving people"; "the factions remained quiet for almost 10 years" [ant: unquiet].
Quiet (a.) Free of noise or uproar; or making little if any sound; "a quiet audience at the concert"; "the room was dark and quiet" [ant: noisy].
Quiet (a.) Not showy or obtrusive; "clothes in quiet good taste" [syn: quiet, restrained].
Quiet (a.) In a softened tone; "hushed voices"; "muted trumpets"; "a subdued whisper"; "a quiet reprimand" [syn: hushed, muted, subdued, quiet].
Quiet (a.) (Of a body of water) Free from disturbance by heavy waves; "a ribbon of sand between the angry sea and the placid bay"; "the quiet waters of a lagoon"; "a lake of tranquil blue water reflecting a tranquil blue sky"; "a smooth channel crossing"; "scarcely a ripple on the still water"; "unruffled water" [syn: placid, quiet, still, tranquil, smooth, unruffled].
Quiet (a.) Of the sun characterized by a low level of surface phenomena like sunspots e.g. [ant: active].
Quiet (n.) A period of calm weather; "there was a lull in the storm" [syn: lull, quiet].
Quiet (n.) An untroubled state; free from disturbances [syn: tranquillity, tranquility, quiet].
Quiet (n.) The absence of sound; "he needed silence in order to sleep"; "the street was quiet" [syn: silence, quiet] [ant: sound].
Quiet (n.) A disposition free from stress or emotion [syn: repose, quiet, placidity, serenity, tranquillity, tranquility].
Quiet (v.) Become quiet or quieter; "The audience fell silent when the speaker entered" [syn: quieten, hush, quiet, quiesce, quiet down, pipe down] [ant: louden].
Quiet (v.) Make calm or still; "quiet the dragons of worry and fear" [syn: calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still] [ant: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on].
Quietage (n.) Quietness.
Quieter (n.) One who, or that which, quiets.
Quietism (n.) Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction.
Quietism (n.) The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes.
Quietist (n.) One of a sect of mystics originated in the seventeenth century by Molinos, a Spanish priest living in Rome. See Quietism.
Quietistic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Quietists, or to Quietism.
Quietly (adv.) In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly.
Quietly (adv.) Without tumult, alarm, dispute, or disturbance; peaceably; as, to live quietly; to sleep quietly.
Quietly (adv.) Calmly, without agitation or violent emotion; patiently; as, to submit quietly to unavoidable evils.
Quietly (adv.) Noiselessly; silently; without remark or violent movement; in a manner to attract little or no observation; as, he quietly left the room.
Quietness (n.) The quality or state of being quiet; freedom from noise, agitation, disturbance, or excitement; stillness; tranquillity; calmness.
Quietsome (a.) Calm; still.
Quietude (n.) Rest; repose; quiet; tranquillity.
Quietus (n.) Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation.
Quietus (n.) Removal from activity; rest; death.
Quietus (n.) Something that serves to suppress or quiet. Quietus is from Medieval Latin quietus (est), "(it is) at rest" (said of an obligation that has been discharged), from Latin quietus, "at rest."
Quill (n.) One of the large feathers of a bird's wing, or one of the rectrices of the tail; also, the stock of such a feather.
Quill (n.) A pen for writing made by sharpening and splitting the point or nib of the stock of a feather; as, history is the proper subject of his quill.
Quill (n.) A spine of the hedgehog or porcupine.
Quill (n.) The pen of a squid. See Pen.
Quill (n.) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
Quill (n.) The tube of a musical instrument.
Quill (n.) Something having the form of a quill.
Quill (n.) The fold or plain of a ruff.
Quill (n.) A spindle, or spool, as of reed or wood, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.
Quill (n.) A hollow spindle.
Quilled (imp. & p. p.) of Quill.
Quilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quill.
Quill (v. t.) To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle.
Quill (v. t.) To wind on a quill, as thread or yarn.
Quillaia bark () The bark of a rosaceous tree (Quillaja Saponaria), native of Chili. The bark is finely laminated, and very heavy with alkaline substances, and is used commonly by the Chilians instead of soap. Also called soap bark.
Quillback (n.) An American fresh-water fish (Ictiobus, / Carpiodes, cyprinus); -- called also carp sucker, sailfish, spearfish, and skimback.
Quilled (a.) Furnished with quills; also, shaped like quills.
Quillet (n.) Subtilty; nicety; quibble.
Quilling (n.) A band of linen, muslin, or the like, fluted, folded, or plaited so as somewhat to resemble a row of quills.
Quilling (n.) One of the rounded plaits or flutings of such a band.
Quillwort (n.) Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes, cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four-tubed rushlike leaves, rising from a corm, and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves.
Quilt (n.) Anything that is quilted; esp., a quilted bed cover, or a skirt worn by women; any cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton, etc., between two cloths and stitching them together; also, any outer bed cover.
Quilted (imp. & p. p.) of Quilt.
Quilting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quilt.
Quilt (v. t.) To stitch or sew together at frequent intervals, in order to confine in place the several layers of cloth and wadding of which a garment, comforter, etc., may be made; as, to quilt a coat.
Quilt (v. t.) To wad, as a garment, with warm soft material.
Quilt (v. t.) To stitch or sew in lines or patterns.
Quilter (n.) One who, or that which, quilts.
Quilting (n.) The act of stitching or running in patterns, as in making a quilt.
Quilting (n.) A quilting bee. See Bee, 2.
Quilting (n.) The material used for making quilts.
Quilting (n.) A coating of strands of rope for a water vessel.
Quin (n.) A European scallop (Pecten opercularis), used as food.
Quinaldine (n.) A colorless liquid of a slightly pungent odor, C9H6N.CH3, first obtained as a condensation product of aldehyde and aniline, and regarded as a derivative of quinoline; -- called also methyl quinoline.
Quinary (a.) Consisting of five; arranged by fives.
Quiname (a.) Growing in sets of five; -- said especially of leaves composed of five leaflets set at the end of a common petiole.
Quinate (n.) A salt of quinic acid.
Quinazol (n.) A complex nitrogenous base related to cinnoline.
Quince (n.) The fruit of a shrub (Cydonia vulgaris) belonging to the same tribe as the apple. It somewhat resembles an apple, but differs in having many seeds in each carpel. It has hard flesh of high flavor, but very acid, and is largely used for marmalade, jelly, and preserves.
Quince (n.) a quince tree or shrub.
Quincewort (n.) The squinancy. Called also quinsywort.
Quinch (v. i.) To stir; to wince.
Quincuncial () Having the form of a quincunx.
Quincuncial () Having the leaves of a pentamerous calyx or corolla so imbricated that two are exterior, two are interior, and the other has one edge exterior and one interior; as, quincuncial aestivation.
Quincuncially (adv.) In the manner or order of a quincunx.
Quincunx (n.) An arrangement of things by fives in a square or a rectangle, one being placed at each corner and one in the middle; especially, such an arrangement of trees repeated indefinitely, so as to form a regular group with rows running in various directions.
Quincunx (n.) The position of planets when distant from each other five signs, or 150?
Quincunx (n.) A quincuncial arrangement, as of the parts of a flower in aestivation. See Quincuncial, 2.
Quincunx (n.) An arrangement of five things in a square or rectangle with one at each corner and one in the middle.
Quincunx (n.) Quincuncial or Quincunxial (adj.) .