Quid (n.) A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco.
Quid (v. t.) To drop from the mouth, as food when partially chewed; -- said of horses.
Quidam (n.) Somebody; one unknown.
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.
Quidditative (a.) Quiddative.
Quiddities (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?
Quiddity (n.) A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble.
Quiddled (imp. & p. p.) of Quiddle
Quiddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quiddle
Quiddle (v. i.) To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.
Quiddle (n.) Alt. of Quiddler
Quiddler (n.) One who wastes his energy about trifles.
Quidnunc (n.) One who is curious to know everything that passes; one who knows, or pretends to know, all that is going on.
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.
Quiescence (n.) Alt. of Quiescency
Quiescency (n.) The state or quality of being quiescent.
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.
Quiescent (a.) Not sounded; silent; as, y is quiescent in "day" and "say."
Quiescent (n.) A silent letter.
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.
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.
Quiet (a.) Not giving offense; not exciting disorder or trouble; not turbulent; gentle; mild; meek; contented.
Quiet (a.) Not showy; not such as to attract attention; undemonstrative; as, a quiet dress; quiet colors; a quiet movement.
Quiet (a.) The quality or state of being quiet, or in repose; as an hour or a time of quiet.
Quiet (a.) Freedom from disturbance, noise, or alarm; stillness; tranquillity; peace; security.
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 (v. i.) To become still, silent, or calm; -- often with down; as, be soon quieted down.
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 (a.) Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation; that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.
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.