Dictionary

"the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet has but one sound (that of k) and is always followed by u the two letters together being sounded like kw except in some words in which the u is silent. See Guide to Pronun

"of Grasp"

"In so far as; in the capacity or character of; as."

"The American night heron. See under Night."

"An unfledged bird; hence something immature or unfinished." — "See Quob v. i."

"The quagga."

"To utter a sound like the cry of a duck." — "To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast." — "To act the part of a quack or pretender." — "The cry of the duck or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse quacking noi

"See Quitch grass."

"of Quackery"

"The acts arts or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism."

"of Quack"

"Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery."

"Quackery."

"To suffocate; to choke."

"of Quackle"

"of Quackle"

"One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank."

"Alt. of Quade" — "A quadrat." — "A quadrangle; hence a prison."

"Evil; bad; baffling; as a quade wind."

"The plinth or lowest member of any pedestal podium water table or the like." — "A fillet or listel."

"That may be sqyared or reduced to an equivalent square; -- said of a surface when the area limited by a curve can be exactly found and expressed in a finite number of algebraic terms."

"of Quadra"

"Consisting of forty; forty years old."

"An indulgence of forty days corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance."

"The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent."

"Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten."

"Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday."

"A plane figure having four angles and consequently four sides; any figure having four angles." — "A square or quadrangular space or inclosure such a space or court surrounded by buildings esp. such a court in a coll

"Having four angles and consequently four sides; tetragonal."

"A fourth part of the coin called an as. See 3d As 2." — "The fourth of a penny; a farthing. See Cur."

"The fourth part; the quarter." — "The quarter of a circle or of the circumference of a circle an arc of 90� or one subtending a right angle at the center." — "One of the four parts into which a plane is divided by

"Of or pertaining to a quadrant; also included in the fourth part of a circle; as quadrantal space." — "A cubical vessel containing a Roman cubic foot each side being a Roman square foot; -- used as a measure." — "

"of Quadrans"

"A block of type metal lower than the letters -- used in spacing and in blank lines." — "An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square and line of shadows."

"Having four equal sides the opposite sides parallel and four right angles; square." — "Produced by multiplying a number by itself; square." — "Square; even; balanced; equal; exact." — "Squared; suited; correspond

"of Quadrate"

"Of or pertaining to a square or to squares; resembling a quadrate or square; square." — "Tetragonal." — "Pertaining to terms of the second degree; as a quadratic equation in which the highest power of the unknown

"That branch of algebra which treats of quadratic equations."

"of Quadrate"

"Of or pertaining to the quadrate and jugal bones." — "Of or pertaining to the quadratojugal bone." — "The quadratojugal bone."