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Quaternion
() The number four.
Quaternion
() A set of four parts, things, or person; four things taken collectively; a group of four words, phrases, circumstances, facts, or the like.
Quaternion
() A word of four syllables; a quadrisyllable.
Quaternion
() 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
() To divide into quaternions, files, or companies.
Quaternity
() The number four.
Quaternity
() The union of four in one, as of four persons; -- analogous to the theological term trinity.
Quateron
() See 2d Quarteron.
Quatorzain
() A poem of fourteen lines; a sonnet.
Quatorze
() The four aces, kings, queens, knaves, or tens, in the game of piquet; -- so called because quatorze counts as fourteen points.
Quatrain
() A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately.
Quatre
() A card, die. or domino, having four spots, or pips
Quatrefeuille
() Alt. of Quatrefoil
Quatrefoil
() Same as Quarterfoil.
Quatuor
() A quartet; -- applied chiefly to instrumental compositions.
Quave
() See Quaver.
Quave
() To quaver.
Quavemire
() See Quagmire.
Quavered
() of Quaver
Quavering
() of Quaver
Quaver
() To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.
Quaver
() 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
() To utter with quavers.
Quaver
() A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music.
Quaver
() An eighth note. See Eighth.
Quaverer
() One who quavers; a warbler.
Quay
() 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
() To furnish with quays.
Quayage
() Wharfage.
Quayd
() p. p. of Quail.
Que
() A half farthing.
Queach
() A thick, bushy plot; a thicket.
Queach
() To stir; to move. See Quick, v. i.
Queachy
() Yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy ground; shaking; moving.
Queachy
() Like a queach; thick; bushy.
Quean
() A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl.
Quean
() A low woman; a wench; a slut.
Queasily
() In a queasy manner.
Queasiness
() The state of being queasy; nausea; qualmishness; squeamishness.
Queasy
() Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; qualmish.
Queasy
() Fastidious; squeamish; delicate; easily disturbed; unsettled; ticklish.
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
() A Chilian apocynaceous tree (Aspidosperma Quebracho); also, its bark, which is used as a febrifuge, and for dyspn/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.
Quebrith
() Sulphur.
Quech
() Alt. of Queck
Queck
() A word occurring in a corrupt passage of Bacon's Essays, and probably meaning, to stir, to move.
Queen
() The wife of a king.
Queen
() A woman who is the sovereign of a kingdom; a female monarch; as, Elizabeth, queen of England; Mary, queen of Scots.
Queen
() A woman eminent in power or attractions; the highest of her kind; as, a queen in society; -- also used figuratively of cities, countries, etc.
Queen
() The fertile, or fully developed, female of social bees, ants, and termites.