pythonism py-thôn-işm, s. [PYTHONIC.] The prediction of future events after the manner of the oracle of Apollo at Delphi. pỹ thôn-ist, subst. [PYTHONIC.] A conjurer. (Cockeram.) py-thon-o-mor-pha, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. python; ● connect., and Gr. morphe=form.] Paleontology: Cope's name for the Mosasaurida (q. v.). py-ür'-I-a, s. [Gr. pyon=pus, and ouron=urine.] Pathol.: Pus in the urine, from disease of the kidneys or uretha, or the rupture of contiguous abscesses into the urinary passages. pуx, *pix, *pixe, s. [Lat. pyxis, from Gr. pyxis =a box, from pyxos-box-wood; Lat. buxus; Fr. pyxide; Sp. pixide; Ital. pisside.] 1. Anat.: The same as PYXIS (q. v.). 2. Roman Church: The box or covered vessel in which the consecrated host is kept. 3. Coinage: The box in which sample coins are placed in the English mint. A triennial test by assay for purity is held, and is termed the trial of the pyx. Two pieces are taken from each bag of newly coined money, one for trial in the mint, the other is deposited in the pyx. The Lord Chancellor summons a jury of freemen of the Goldsmiths' Company, who test by weight and assay in comparison with certain standard trial-plates deposited in the Exchequer. 4. Naut.: The binnacle-box in which a compass is suspended. Trial of the pyx: [Prx, s., 3.] pyx, v. t. [Pyx, s.] To test by weight and assay, as the coins in the pyx. pyx-I-çeph'-a-lŭs, s. kephale the head.] [Gr. pyxis a box, and 3314 THE seventeenth letter and the thirteenth consonant of the English alphabet, a consonant having only one sound, that of k or c. It is always followed by u, and since this combination can be repre sented by kw (or k when theu is silent), q is a superflous letter. In Latin, as in English, was always followed by u. did not occur in the AngloSaxon alphabet, its sound being represented by cw or cu, as cwic-Eng. quick, cwén=Eng. queen, cweian Eng. quau, &c. ror qu in English ne Dutch use kw, the Germans qu, the Swedes and Danes qv. Qis most commonly found as an initial letter; it never ends a word. The name of the letter is said to be from Fr. queue-a tail, the form being that of an O with a tail to it. I. As an initial: Q represents the Latin Quintus in inscriptions or literature; in geometry, &c., it represents the Latin quod (=which), as Q. E. D.= quod erat demonstrandum=which was to be shown or proved; Q. E. F. quod erat faciendum which was to be done, abbreviations frequently written at the end of a theorem or problem respectively. II. As a symbol: 1. Q was formerly used for 500, and with a dash over it, Q, for 500,000. qua, adv. [Lat.] In the character or quality of; as being; as, He spoke not qua a public official, but qua a private person. qua, s. [For etym. and def. see compound.] qua-bird, 8. Ornith. The Night-heron of this country. Nycticorax nævius. Zool. A genus of Ranide, with seven species, "It is distributed generally over the United States, reextending over the Oriental region. Fingers free, siding permanently in the southern portion; in the Easttoes incompletely webbed; tongue large, free, andern states it is called the qua-bird, from the noise it deeply notched behind, metatarsal with a shovel- makes."-Ripley & Dana: Amer. Cyclop., xii. 443. like prominence, with which some of the species burrow. pyx-ic-o-la, s. [Lat. pyxis=a box, and colo-to inhabit.] Zool.: A genus of Vorticellinidæ, sub-family Vaginicola. Animalcules attached posteriorly within a corneous lorica, which can be closed at will by a discoidal operculum. Six species. pyx-id-ǎn'-ther-a, s. (Greek pyxis=a box, and antheros.] [ANTHER.] Bot.: A genus of Diapensiaceae. [PYXIE.] pyx-id-1-um, 8. [Greek pyridion=a little box.] [PYXIS.] 1. Bof.: A syncarpous fruit, superior, and with the carpel dry and dehiscent by a transverse suture. Example, Anagallis. 2. Zool. A genus of Vorticellina (q. v.). Solitary animalcules, according in structure with the zooids of the compound genus Opercularia. Two species, both from fresh water. pyx-iě, 8. [PYXIDANTHERA.] A plant common in New England. "First among her treasures is the delicate pyzie (Pyxidanthera barbulata), a little prostrate trailing evergreen, forming dense tufts or masses, and among its small dark green and reddish leaves are thickly scattered the rosepink buds and white blossoms. It is strictly a pine-barren plant, and its locality is confined to New Jersey and the Carolinas."-Harper's Monthly, June, 1882, p. 65. pyx-i-ně, s. [Gr. pyxinos-made of box; yellow, as boxwood.] Bot.: The typical genus of Pyxinidæ (q. v.). It is confined to the hotter countries. pуx-In ́-ě-1, 8. pl. [Mod. Lat. pyxin(e); Latin masc. pl. adj. suff. -ei.] Botany: An order of Lichens, with an orbicular superficial disk contained in an excipulum. Thallus foliaceous, generally fixed by the center. It contains the Tripe de Roche, &c. Called by Lindley Pyxinidae, and made a family of Idiothalameæ (q. v.). quab (1), 8. [Cf. Dut. kwab, kwabbe; Dan. quabbe an eel-pout; Ger. quappe, quabbe-a tadpole, an eel-pout.] A kind of fish; prob. an eel-pout or the miller's thumb. quab (2), s. [Etym. doubtful; prob. for squab (q.v.).] An unfledged bird; hence, anything immature or crude. "You'll take it well enough; a scholar's fancy, A quab; 'tis nothing else, a very quab." Ford: Lover's Melancholy, iii. 3. quack, *queke, *quakke, v. i. & t. [From the sound; cf. Dut. kwaken to croak, to quack; Ger. quaken to quack; Icel. kvaka to twitter; Dan. quække to croak, to quack; Lat. coaxo=to croak; Gr. koax=a croaking.] A. Intransitive: quadrangle quǎck-ish, a. [Eng quackish.] Like a quack or charlatan; pretending to skill not really pos sessed; humbugging; characterized by quackery. tquǎck-işm, s. [Eng. quack; -ism.] The prac tice of quackery. quǎc-kle, v. t. & i. [From the sound made in choking.] A. Trans.: To interrupt in breathing; to almost choke; to suffocate. (Prov.) "The drink, or something in the cup, quackled him, stuck so in his throat that he could not get it up nor down."-Ward: Sermons, p. 153. B. Intrans. To quack. ling.] A young duck; a duckling. quack-ling, subst. [Eng. quack, s.; dimin. suff. tan; kwakzalven to quack, to puff up salves; Ger. quack'-sǎl-ver, s. [Dut. kwakzalver a charlaquacksalber.] One who brags of his medicines or salves; a quack-doctor; a charlatan; a quack. "To turn mountebanks, quacksalvers, empiricks."Burton: Anat. Melan. (Democritus to the Reader.) quǎck-sǎl-ving, a. [QUACKSALVER.] Charaoteristic of or used by quacks; quack. "Quacksalving cheating mountebanks, your skill Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill." Massinger: Virgin Martyr, iv. 1. quãd (1), quòd, subst. [A contr. of quadrangle (q. v.).] The quadrangle or court, as of a college, jail, &c.; hence, a prison, a jail. quãd (2), s. [See def.] Print.: An abbreviation of quadrat (q. v.). *quad, *quade, *qued, a. & s. [A. S. cwéd; Dut. & Low Ger, kwaad.] [QUED.] A. As adj.: Bad, wicked, evil. quãd-, quãdr, quad-ri-, quãt, pref. [Latin quadrus fourfold, quater four times, quatuor= four.] A common prefix in words from the Latin, having the force of four, fourfold. *quade, v. t. [QUAD, a.] To debase; to shame. "Thine errors will thy worke confounde, And all thine honors quade.' Halle: Hist. Expostulation, 1,565. quãd'-êr, v. i. [Lat. quadro to square, from quadrus = fourfold, square.] To quadrate; to square; to match. "The x doth not quader well with him, because it sounds harshly."-Hist. of Don Quixote, p. 88. qua'-der, s. [Ger.=freestone, square stone.] (See etym. and compound.) quader-sandstone, s. Geol.: A siliceous sandstone of Cretaceous age, with many fossil shells identical with those of the English Chalk. It is sometimes 600 feet thick, and, I. Lit.: To cry like the common domesticated being jointed and often precipitous, has much to do duck. II. Figuratively: 1. To make vain and loud protestations in praise of anything; to boast; to talk noisily and ostentatiously. 2. To act the quack, to talk as a quack; to pretend to medical knowledge. B. Trans. To chatter or talk noisily in praise of, as a quack. "To quack off universal cures." Butler: Hudibras, iii. 1. quǎck, s. & a. [QUACK, v.] A. As substantive: I. Literally: 1. The cry of the common domesticated duck. *2. Any croaking noise; a cough, a wheezing. II. Figuratively: 1. A pretender to knowledge or skill which he does not possess; an empty pretender; a charlatan. "Quack and critic differ but in name; Empirics frontless both, they mean the same." Lloyd: Epistle to C. Churchill. 2. Specif.: A boastful pretender to medical skill pуx-In-I-dæ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. pyxin(e); Lat. which he does not possess; a sham practitioner in fem. pl. adj. suff. -ida.] medicine; a charlatan, an empiric. Bot.: A family of Pyxinei (q. v.). pyx-is, s. [P¥x, 8.] *I. Ord. Lang.: A box, a pyx. II. Technically: 1. Anat.: The acetabulum (q. v.). 2. Bot.: A pyxidium (q. v.). B. As adj.: Pertaining to quacks and quackery; falsely pretending or pretended to be able to cure diseases. quack-en, v. t. [QUERKEN.] To choke, to suffocato. (Prov.) quack-er-y, s. [Eng. quack; -ery.] Boastful pretensions to skill which one does not possess; the 3. Zool. A genus of Chelonida, with one species, practice of a quack, especially in medicine; empiricism, charlatanry, humbug, imposture. from the Ethiopian region. "Before committing themselves to Utopian quackery in land reform."-Field, Oct. 17, 1885. tquack-hood, s. [Eng. quack; -hood.] Quackory, charlataury. pyxis-nautica, s. Astron.: The Mariner's Compass, a Southern constellation. 2. One of the bands or fillets of the Ionic base, between which the scotia or hollow occurs; also the plinth, or lower member of the podium. *quãd-ra-gĕ-när -I-oŭs, a. [Latin quadragenarius, from quadrageni-forty cach; quadraginta =forty.] Consisting of forty; forty years old. quad-ra-gene, subst. [Lat. quadrageni=forty each.] A papal indulgence for forty days. [INDULG ENCE, S., II. 1.] "So many quadragenes, or lents of pardon."-Taylor: Dissuasive from Popery, pt. i., ch. ii., § 4. quãd-ra-ges-1-ma, s. [Latin quadragesimus= fortieth, quadraginta forty, quatuor=four; Fr. quadragésime.] Lent, so called because it consists of forty days. Quadragesima-Sunday, s. The first Sunday in Lent, being about forty days before Easter. quãd-ra-ges-1-mal, a. & s. [Fr.] [QUADRA GESIMA.] A. As adj.: Pertaining to, or connected with, the number forty, espec, with reference to the forty days of Lent; belonging to or used in Lent; Lenten. B. As subst. (pl.): Offerings formerly made to the mother church on mid-Lent Sunday. quad -răn-gle, s. [Fr., from Lat. quadrangulum, neut. sing. of quadrangulus four-cornered: quadrus=square, and angulus an angle; Sp.quadrangulo; Ital. quadrangolo.] I. Ord. Lang,: A square or four-sided court or space surrounded by buildings, as often seen in the buildings of a college, school, &c. [QUAD (1), 8.] II. Geom.: A figure having four angles, and consoquently four sides, fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fall, father; wē, wět, here, camel, her, thêre; pine, pit, sire, sir, marîne; gō, pot, 1. Arch. The same as QUADRANGLE (q. v.). 2. Artillery: [GUNNER'S QUADRANT.] 3. Geom., &c.: The tourth part of a circle; the arc of a circle containing 90; the space included between such arc and two radii drawn from the center to the extremities of the arc. 4. Naut., &c.: An instrument for making angular measurements. So called from its embracing an are of 90° or somewhat more. Formerly much employed in making astronomical observations. It is now superseded by the sextant (q. v.). (Falconer: Shipwreck, i.) *B. As adj.: Quadrangular, square. "A quadrant void place before the doore of the same chamber."-Fox: Martyrs, p. 1,206. Quadrant of altitude: An appendix of the artificial globe, consisting of a slip of brass of the length of a quadrant of one of the great circles of the globe, and graduated. It is fitted to the meridian, and movable round to all parts of the horizon. It serves as a scale in measuring altitudes, azimuths, &c. quadrant-compass, s. A carpenter's compass, with an arc and a binding-screw. quadrant-electrometer, &. [ELECTROMETER.] quãd-rănt -al, a. & 8. [Lat. quadrantalis, from quadrans a quadrant (q. v.).] A. As adj. Of or pertaining to a quadrant; contained in the fourth part of a circle; of the form or shape of a quadrant. B As substantive: 1. A cube. 2. A cubical vessel used by the Romans, and containing the same as the amphora. quadrantal-triangle, s. Trigon.: A spherical triangle, one of whose sides is a quadrant or an arc of 90°. quãd-răn'-tid§, s. pl. [Lat. quadrans, genitive quadrantis.] Astron. The meteors forming a shower occurring on Jan. 2 and 3, and having its radiant point in Quadrans-muralis. quad -rant-ly, adv. [Eng. quadrant;- ly.] In manner of a square; in a square. "To imbattell 1,200 men quadrantly at the sodaine."— Garrard: Art of Warre, p. 183. quãd-răn-tox'-ide, subst. [Eng. quadrant, and oride.] Chem. (pl.): A name applied by Rose to oxides containing four atoms of metal to one atom of oxygen, such as suboxide of silver, Ag4O. Better called tetrametallic oxides. quãd -rat, 8. [QUADRATE.] 1. A geometrical square (q. v.). 2. Print.: A block of type-metal lower than the type, and used for filling out lines, spacing between lines, &c. Commonly called a quad. quãd ́-rate, *quãd'-rat, a. &s. [Lat. quadratus squared, prop. pa. par. of quadro to make or be square; quadrus=square.] II. Figuratively: 3315 1. Square, as typifying completeness or perfeotion; complete, perfect. "A quadrat solid wise man."-Howell: Letters, bk. 1, § 6., let. 58. 2. Suited, fitted, correspondent, matching. "A general description, quadrate to both.”—Harvey: On Consumption. B. As substantive: I. Ord. Lang.: A square; a surface or figure having four equal and parallel sides. (Spenser: F. Q., II., ix. 22.)* II. Technically: 1. Astrol.: An aspect of the heavenly bodies, wherein they are distant from each other 90°, and the same with quartile. 2. Music: The sign used originally to raise B rotundum flat, one semitone. Hence arose its general use for the raising of all flattened notes, as exemplified in its modern form of a natural. 3. Comp. Anat.: The quadrate-bone (q. v.). quadrate-bone, s. rami are articulated with the skull in Birds, RepCompar. Anat.: A bone by means of which the tiles, and Fishes (often called the Hypotympanicbone). quãd'-rāte, v. i. & t. [QUADRATE, α.] *A. Intrans. To square, to fit, to match, to correspond, to suit. (Followed by with.) "There is a better explanation at hand, which exactly quadrates with the sense here given."-Warburton: Div. Legation, bk. iv., § 6. B. Trans.: To trim a ship's gun on its carriage and trucks; to adjust a gun for firing on a level range. quãd-răt -Ic, a. & s. [Eng. quadrat(e); -ic; Fr. quadratique.] A. As adjective: 1. Alg.: Pertaining to or involving the square or second power of an unknown quantity; as, a quadratic equation; that is, an equation in which the unknown quantity is of two dimensions or raised to the second power; or in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a square. 2. Crystall.: Dimetric; applied to the system that includes the square prism and related forms. (Dana.) 1. Astron. The position of one heavenly body with respect to another 90 distant, as the moon when midway between the points of opposition and conjunction. 2. Geom.: The act of squaring; the reducing of a figure to a square. "The quadrature of the circle is a famous problem, which has probably been the subject of more discussion and research than any other problem within the whole range of mathematical science. The area of the circle being equal to a rectangle described upon the radius and half of the circumference, it follows that the quadrature would be possible if an algebraic expression, with a finite number of terms, could be found for the length of the circumference. Hence, the problem is reduced to finding such an expression, or to finding an exact expression in algebraic terms for the ratio of the diameter to the circumference. No such expression has yet been found, and it is by no means probable that such an expression will ever be found. The problem may safely be classed with the problems for the geometrical tri-section of an angle, the duplication of the cube, &c., all of which are now regarded as beyond the power of exact geometrical construction."-Davies & Peck: Math. Dictionary. quãd -rel, s. [Low Lat. quadrellus, from Latin quadrus square; quatuor=four; Ital. quadrello; Fr. quarrel, carrel; Fr. carreau.] 1. A square stone, brick, or tile. boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, gell, chorus, 2. A kind of artificial stone made of chalky earth dried in the sun. So called from the square shape. 3. A piece of turf or peat cut in a square form. (Prov.) chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; quadrifid *qu¤d-rèlle', s. [Fr.] [QUADREL.] Old Armor: A mace having a cross-head of four serrated projections, used in the fifteenth century, and carried at the saddle-bow. quãd-ren'-ni-al, *quãd-ri-ĕn'-ni-al, a. (Lat. quadriennium from quadrus-square, and annus= a year.] 1. Comprising or consisting of a period of four years. 2. Happening or recurring once in every four years; as, quadrennial games. quãd-rěn -ni-al-lý, adu. [Eng. quadrennial; -ly.] Once in every four years. quãd-ri-, quãd-rō-, pref. [QUAD-.] 1. Ord. Lang. [QUAD-.] 2. Chem.: Prefixes synonymous with tetra-, e. g., SnCl4-quadri- or tetrachloride of tin. quadri-digitato-pinnate, a. Bot. (of a compound leaf): Having the secondary petioles proceeding in fours from the summit of a common petiole. quãd-ri-bās -Ic, adj. [Prefix quadri-, and Eng. basic.] Chem.: Having four parts of base to one of acid. quãd-ri-ble, adj. [Lat. quadrus-square, fourfold, and Eng. -able.] Capable of being squared. (Derham.) quãd'-ric, s. [Lat. quadrus=square, fourfold.] Alg.: A homogeneous expression of the second degree in the variables or facients. Ternary and quaternary quadrics, respectively curves and surequated to zero, represent faces, which have the property of cutting every line in the plane, or in space, in two points, and to which the name quadric is also applied. Plane quadrics, therefore, are identical with conic sections. (Brande & Cox.) +quad-ri-cặp-sụ-lar, a. [Pref. quadri-, and English capsular (q.v.);] Botany: Having four capsules. V Quadricapsular. quad-ri-chlör-o-va-lör -ic, a. [Pref. quadri-; chloro-, and English valeric.] Derived from or containing chlorine and valeric acid. quadrichlorovaleric-acid, s. Chem.: CH6C1402. Tetrachlorovaleric acid; a semi-fluid, colorless oil, obtained by the prolonged action of chlorine on valeric acid, aided by expos ure to the sun. It is destitute of odor, has a pungent taste, and is heavier than water. In contact with water it forms a hydrate, CHC1402, H2O, slightly soluble in water, but very soluble in alcohol and ether. fold, and cornu a horn.] A name given to any quãd'-ri-corn, s. [Lat. quadrus=square, fouranimal having four horns or antennæ. quad-ri-corn'-oŭs, a. [QUADRICORN.] Having four horns or antennæ. quãd-ri-cos-tāte, a. [Pref. quadri-, and Eng. costate.] Having four ribs. quãd-rl-děç'-Im-al, a. [Pref. quadri-, and Eng. decimal (q. v.).] Crystall.: Applied to a crystal whose prism, or the middle part, has four faces, and two summits, containing together ten faces. quãd-ri-den-tāte, a. [Pref. quadri-, and Eng. dentate (q. v.).] Bot.: Having four teeth on the edge. quãd-ri-ĕn ́-ni-al, a. [QUADRENNIAL.] quãd-ri-ĕn'-ni-ŭm, s. [Lat.] [QUADRENNIAL.] A space of four years. quadrifidæ quãd-rif-i-dæ, s. pl. [Latin quadrifidus, from quadrus square, fourfold, and findo (pa. t. fidi)= to cleave.] Entom.: A section of Noctuina. Wings generally broad, sometimes very large, hinder ones but little folded, median wing of the latter generally with four branches. European species few. Sections: Variegatæ. Intrusse, Limbatæ, and Serpentinæ. (Stainton.) quãd-ri-foil, a. [QUADRIFOLIATE.] quãd-ri-fō-li-ate, quãd'-ri-foil, adj. [Prefix quadri-, and Eng. foliate (q. v.).] Bot. (of a petiole): Bearing four leaflets from the same point. quad-ri-für-cate, quãd-ri-für-cat-ěd, adj. [Prefix quadri-, and English furcate, furcated (q. v.).] Having four forks or branches. quãd-ri-ga (pl. quãd-ri-gæ), subst. [Latin, contracted from quadrijuga, from quatuor four, and jugum a yoke.] Roman Antiq.: A two-wheeled car or chariot drawn by four horses, harnessed all abreast. It was used in the Circensian games of the Romans. Quadriga. quãd-ri-gem-in-ous, a. [Lat. quadrigeminus, from quadrus fourfold, and geminus-born with another, twin.] = *1. Ord. Lang.: Having four similar parts; fourfold. 2. Anat.: Of or belonging to four rounded eminences (corpora or tubercula quadrigemina) separated by a crucial depression, and placed in twos above the passage leading from the third to the fourth ventricle of the cerebrum. quad-ri-ge-när'-I-ous, a. [Lat. quadrigeni, for quadringeni-four hundred each.] Consisting of four hundred. quãd-ri-glăn'-du-lar, adj. [Pref. quadri-, and Eng. glandular (q. v.).] Having four glands. quad-ri-hi-late, a. [Pref. quadri-, and Latin hilum (q. v.).] Bot.: Having four apertures. Example, the pollen of some plants. quad-rij-u-gate, quãd-rij'-u-gous, a. [Latin quadrijugis, quadrijugus = yoked four together.] [QUADRIGA.] Bot. (of the petiole of a pinnated leaf): Bearing four pairs of leaflets. quad-ri-lăm-in-ar, adj. [Prefix quadri-, and Eng. laminar (q. v.).] Consisting of four laminæ. quãd-ri-lat-er-al, a. & s. [Lat. quadrilaterus =four-sided; quadrus square, fourfold, and latus (genit. lateris)=a side.] A. As adj.: Having four sides, and consequently four angles. B. As substantive: 1. Geom.: A figure having four sides and four angles; a quadrangular figure. Parallelograms, squares, and trapeziums are quadrilaterals. 2. Mil.: A space within and defended by four fortresses, as the quadrilateral in Venetia, formed by Peschiera and Mantua on the Mincio, and by Verona and Legnago on the Adige. quad-ri-lăt-er-al-ness, s. [Eng. quadrilateral; -ness.). The property, quality, or state of being quadrilateral. quad-ri-lit-er-al, a. [Pref. quadri-, and Eng. literal (q. v.).] Consisting of four letters. qua-drille (qu as k), s. [Fr., from Sp. cuadrillo =a small square, cuadrilla a meeting of four or more persons, from cuadra a square; from Latin quadra, fem. of quadrus-square, fourfold; quadrula a little square.] 3316 quãd-ril-11-on, s. [Fr.] 1. According to English notation, the number pro duced by raising a million to its fourth power, or a by fifteen ciphers; so in the United States. Bot.: Having four cells or compartments; four- quãd-ri-lōge, s. [Low Latin quadrilogus, from Lat. quadrus fourfold, and Gr. logos a discourse.] 1. A book written in four parts. 2. A narrative depending on the testimony of four 3. A work compiled from or by four authors. quãd-rin, *quad-rine, *quat-rine, s. [O. Fr., "One of her paramours sent her a purse full of quadrines instead of silver."-North: Plutarch, p. 722. quãd-ri-no-mi-al, a. & s. [Pref. quadri-, and Eng. nomial (q. v.).] A. As adj.: Consisting of four terms or denomi nations. B. As subst.: A quantity, consisting of four terms or denominations. quãd-ri-nom-ic-al, adj. [Lat. quadrus four fold, and nomen-a name, a term.] quadrumana quãd-ri-sul-câate, a. & s. [QUADRISULCATA.] A. As adj.: Having four grooves or furrows; specif., having a four-parted hoof. B. As substantive: Zoology: Any individual belonging to the Quadrisulcata (q. v.). quad-ri-syl-lab-Ic, a. [Pref. quadri-, and Eng. syllabic (q. v.).] Consisting of four syllables; pertaining to or consisting of quadrisyllables. syllable (q. V.).] A word consisting of four syllaquad-ri-syl-la-ble, s. [Pref. quadri-, and Eng. bles. "Disguised their emptiness under this pompous quadrisyllable."-De Quincey: Romun Meals. quãd-riv-a-lent, a. [Pref. quadri-, and Latin valens, pr. par. of valeo-to be worth.] Chem. Equivalent to four units of any standard, especially to four atoms of hydrogen. [TETRAD.] quãd -ri-vălve, a. & s. [Pref. quadri-, and Eng. valve (q. v.).] A. As adjective: Bot.: Opening by four valves. (Used of a pericarp, &c.) B. As subst.: One of a set of four folds or leaves forming a door. quãd-ri-văl'-vu-lar, a. [Prefix quadri-, and Eng. valvular (q. v.).] The same as QUADRIVALVE (q. v.). quad-riv -I-al, a. & s. [QUADRIVIUM.] A. As adj.: Having four ways or roads meeting in a point. "A forum with quadrivial streets." Ben Jonson: Epigrams. B. As subst.: One of the arts constituting the quadrivium (q. v.). "The quadrivials are now smallie regarded in either of them [the universities]."-Holinshed: Description of England, bk. ii., ch. iii. tquãd-riv-l-ous, a. [QUADRIVIAL.] Going in Alg.: The same as QUADRINOMIAL (q. v.). Alg.: The same as QUADRINOMIAL (q. v.). I. Ord. Lang.: Divided into four parts. 1. Arch.: Divided, as a vault, by the arching into quad-ri-par-ti-tion, s. [Lat. quadripartitio.] quad-ri-pen-nate, a. & s. [Pref. quadri-, and Eng. pennate (q.v.).] A. As adj.: Having four wings. B. As subst.: An insect having four wings-the typical number. quãd-ri-phyl-lous, a. [Pref. quadri-, and Gr. Bot.: Having four leaves. quãd-ri-rēme, subst. [Lat. quadriremis, from Class. Antiquity: A galley having four benches or ranks of oars or rowers, in use among the Greeks and Romans. quad-ri-sac-ra-ment -al-ist, s. [Pref. quadri-, and English sacramentalist.] [QUADRISACRAMENTARIAN.] 1. A dance consisting of five figures or move- "The quadrille was ended, and the music stopped playing."-Marryat: Snarleyyow, ch. ix. 2. The music composed for such a dance. 3. A game of cards played by four persons with forty cards, the tens, nines, and eights being thrown out from an ordinary pack. "O filthy check on all industrious skill To spoil the nation's last great trade-quadrille !" qua-drille (qu as k), v. i. [QUADRILLE, 8.] fate, fat, färe, amidst, what, fâll, Church Hist. (pl.): A controversial term applied to some German Reformers in Wittenberg and its neighborhood, who held that the Sacraments of Baptism, the Eucharist, Confession, and Orders were generally necessary to salvation. They are mentioned by Melancthon in his Loci Communes. quad-ri-sec-tion, s. [Pref. quadri-, and Eng. section (q. v.).] Subdivision into four parts or sections. quad-ri-sul-ca-ta, s. pl. [Prefix quadri-, and Lat. sulcatus, pa. par. of sulco-to furrow, to plow.] Zoology: A group of ungulate animals, with the hoof parted into four digits. "Walking off quadrivious."-Reade: Cloister and Hearth, ch. xxiv. quãd-riv-i-um, s. [Lat.=(1) a place where four roads meet; (2) the four mathematical sciencesarithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy, from quatuor four, and via away.] In the Middle Ages an educational course consisting of the four mathematical sciences mentioned above. *quãd-rob-u-lar-y, a. [First element Latin quadrus square; second doubtful.] Four-sided; containing four. "There is a quadrobulary saying, which passes current in the Westerne world. That the Emperour is King of Kings, the Spaniard King of Men, the French King of Asses, the King of England King of Devills."-N. Ward: Simple Cobbler (ed. 1647), p. 48. quad-roôn', quar-ter-on, s. & a. [Sp. cuarteron, from Lat. quartus-fourth.] A. As subst.: A person who is one-quarter negro and three-quarters white; that is, one of whose grandparents was white and the other negro; and one of whose immediate parents was white and the other mulatto. "Hated by Creoles and Indians, Mestizos and Quad roons."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xxiii. B. As adj.: Pertaining to a person of such descent; quarter-blooded. "A marriage between a white planter and a quadroon girl."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. 1. quãd-rox-ide, s. [QUANDRANTOXIDE.] quãd-ru-măn, quãd -ru-mâne, s. [QUADRUMANA.] Any individual of the Quadrumana (q. v.). tquãd-ru-ma-na, s. pl. [Lat. quadrimanus= having four bands.] 1. Zool.: An order of Mammalia, founded by Cuvier, and containing the Monkeys, Apes, Baboons, and Lemurs (the Linnæan genera Simia and Lemur). Owen divided it into three groups. Catarhina, Platyrhina, and Strepsirhina. [PRIMATES.] (Cf. Mivart, in Phil. Trans., 1867, pp. 299-429.) "If we accept, with Prof. Owen [Anat. Vert., ii. 553], as the definition of the word 'foot, an extremity in which then man alone has a pair of feet. But, anatomically, the hallux forms the fulcrum in standing or walking,' the foot of apes agrees far more with the foot of man than with his hand, and similarly the ape's hand resembles man's hand, and differs from his foot. Even estimated physiologically, or according to use, the hand throughout the whole order [Primates] remains the prehensile organ par excellence, while the predominant function of tive. Therefore the term Quadrumana is apt to be misthe foot, however prehensile it be. is constantly locomoleading, since anatomically both apes and man have two hands and a pair of feet."-St. G. Mivart: Man and Apes, p. 89. 2. Palæont.: The earliest known remains are those of Lemuravus (q.v.) from the Eocene of New Mexico. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; go, father; we, wět, here, camel, her, there; pot, quadrumanous The other genera which present any points of interest are treated separately. [DRYOPITHECUS, PLIOPITHECUS, PROTOPITHECUS.] quad-ra-ma-nous, *quãd-rim'-a-nous, a. [Mod. Lat. quadruman(a); Eng. adj. suff. -ous.] Having four hands; pertaining to the Quadrumana. "Professor Huxley maintains that the term Quadrumanous may lead to erroneous conclusions if it be held to mean that the hind hand of a monkey is anatomically homologous with the hand rather than with the foot of man."-Lyell: Antiq. Man, p. 326. quãd-rûne, s. [Etym. doubtful.] A gritstone with a calcareous cement. quad -ru-ped, a. & s. [Fr. quadrupède; Italian quadrupedo.] A. As adj.: Having four legs and feet; four-footed. B. As subst. In popular language, chiefly applied to the four-footed Mammalia, rarely, if ever, to the four-footed Reptilia. "The ancestors of the gigantic quadrupeds."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. iii. quãd-ru-pě-dal, a. & s. [Eng. quadruped; -al.] A. As adj.: Quadruped; having four legs and feet; pertaining to a quadruped. "From that groveling, quadrupedal shape."-Howell: Parly of Beasts, p. 6. *B. As subst.: A quadruped. "The coldest of any quadrupedals."-Howell: Parly of Beasts, p. 11. *quad-ra-pe dat-ěd, adj. [Eng. quadruped; -ated.] Turned into quadrupeds or beasts. "Quadrupedated with an earthly covetousness."-Adam: Works, i. 199. *quãd-rû-ped-işm, s. [Eng. quadruped; -ism.] The state or condition of a quadruped. "Quadrupedism is not considered an obstacle to a certain kind of canonization."- Southey: The Doctor, ch. cxcix. quad-ra-ple, a. & s. [Fr. quadruple, from Lat. quadruplus = fourfold, from quatuor plico-to fold.] A. As adj.: Fourfold; four times told. four, and 3317 implies a doubt of its correctness or truth, and *quæs-ta, s. [Lat., from quæstus-gain, profit, quaff, *quaught, *quaffe, v. t. & i. [For quach, A. Transitive: To drink; to swallow in large B. Intrans.: To drink copiously or luxuriously. *quaff-tide, *quaf-tide, s. Time for drinking. "Now, Alvina begins her quaff." shake, to grope or feel about. "Long broad bills to quaffer and hunt in waters and "Striding along between the whin bushes or through quǎg-ga, s. [Named from the sound of its note 1. Equus (Asinus, Gray) quagga, a striped equine B. As subst.: Fourfold; a sum, quantity, or num- (Proc. Zool. Soc., 1876, ber four times as much or as many. Quadruple-Alliance, s. Hist.: An alliance between England, France, Germany and Holland in 1718-19, and between England, France, Spain, and Portugal in 1834. quadruple-counterpoint, s. Music: The construction of four melodies or parts to be performed together, in such a manner that they can be interchanged without involving the infringement of the laws of musical grammar. quãd-ru-ple, v. i. & t. [Fr. quadrupler, from Lat. quadruplo to multiply by four, from quadruplus quadruple (q.v.).] A. Intrans.: To become fourfold as much or as many; to increase fourfold. "It has probably, on the average, quadrupled."--Mamaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. iii. B. Trans.: To make four times as much or as nany; to multiply fourfold. "A method by which the fatty constituents suspended In milk may be quadrupled."-London Daily Telegraph. quad -ru-plex, a. [Lat.] Fourfold, quadruple. quadruplex-telegraphy, s. Telegraphy in which four messages are sent simultaneously along one wire. This was first successfully effected on a wire between London and Liverpool in 1877. quad-ra-pll-cate, a. &s. [Lat. quadruplicatus, a. par. of quadruplico-to make quadruple (q. v.).] A. As adj.: Fourfold; four times repeated. B. As subst.: The fourth power. quad-ru-pli-cate, v. t. [QUADRUPLICATE, a.] To make fourfold, to double twice. quãd-ru-pli-ca-tion, s. [Lat. quadruplicatio, from quadruplicatus, pa. par. of quadruplico to quadruplicate (q. v.).] The act or process of quadruplicating; the state of being quadruplicated. *quad-ra-plic-I-ty, s. [As if from a Lat. quadruplicitas.] The state or condition of being fourfold. "Mongst the quadruplicity Of elemental essence, terra is but thought To be a punctum." Greene: Friar Bacon. quad-ra-ply, adv. [Eng. quadrup(le): -ly.] In a quadruple, or fourfold manner or degree; to a fourfold quantity or degree. "The innocent person is quadruply recompensed for the loss of time."-Swift: Gulliver's Travels (Lilliput), ch. vi. quær-ě, subst. [Lat., imper. sing. of quæro=to seek, to inquire.] Seek, inquire, question. When placed before or after a proposition or word, quære boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, p. 291) notes that, Quagga. 2. Equus burchellii. [ZEBRA.] "Which lives for all, who flounder boldly on Blackie: Lays of Highlands and Islands, p. 191. 1. A shaking bog or marsh; wet, boggy land that 2. A place wet, miry, and soft as a bog. qua-haug (au as Ŏ), qua-hog', s. [From Nar- Zool.: Venus mercenaria, a bivalve having its inside tipped with purple. quail (1), *quaile (1), *quayle, *queal, *quelen (pa. t. *qual, quailed), v. i. & t. [A. S. cwelan= to die, in comp. ácwelan to die utterly; cogn. with Dut. quelen-to pine away; O. H. Ger. quelan=to suffer torment; A. S. cwalu-destruction; Icel. kvöl; Dut. & Sw. qual; Ger. qual=torment, agony.] A. Intransitive: *1. To die, to perish. "My false spirits quail."-Shakesp.: Cymbeline, v. 5. "Paule was afrayed of their quayling, whom he had 4. To fade, to wither, to die out. "So virtue quailed and vice began to grow." Tancred and Gismunda (1568). çhin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; 1. To cause to shrink; to crush, to depress. "That ne'er quails me at which your greatest quake." Drayton: Barons' Wars, vi. 83. 2. To overcome, to quell. "With force of might, and virtue great, his stormy blasts to quail." Surrey: The Complaint of a Louer. quail (2), *quaile (2), *quayl-yn, v. i. [O. Fr. coailler (Fr. cailler), from Lat. coagulo-to coagulate (q. v.).] To curdle, to coagulate, as milk. (Prov.) quaille (Fr. caille), from Low Lat. quaquila=a quail, quaile, *quaille, *quayle, s. [0. Fr. quail, from O. Dut. quackel-a quacker, à quail, from quacken to croak, to quack; Ital. quaglia= a quail.] 1. Ord. Lang. & Ornith.: The genus Coturnix, espec. Coturnix communis, or dactylisonans, the latter name having reference to the peculiar dactylic call of the male, which has given rise to the provincial name of Wet-my-lips, Wet-my-feet, from a supposed similarity of sound. It is widely distributed over the eastern hemisphere, visiting Europe in early summer and returning southward in and fattened for the market, as their flesh is much the autumn, when immense numbers are caught esteemed. Length about seven inches, general color reddish-brown, with buff streaks on the upper surface; throat rufous; head dark-brown above, striped with ocherous white, sides reddish-brown, lower parts pale buff, fading into white on belly. tinge absent from the throat. They nest on the Color less bright in the hen bird, and the rufous ground, laying from nine to fifteen pyriform yellowish-white eggs, blotched with dark-brown. The males are polygamous and extremely pugnacious. The name is often applied to members of the American genera Ortyx and Lophortyx; the genus Excalfactoria contains the Dwarf Quails, and the family Turnicide the Bush Quails. 2. Fig.: A courtesan, a prostitute. 3. Script.: Heb. selav, selaiv (Exod. xvi. 13, Num. xi. 31, 32, &c.) seems correctly rendered. quail-call, s. A quail-pipe. Ornith.: The genus Geophaps. 2. Fig.: The human throat. "To clear my quail-pipe, and refresh my soul, Full oft I drained the spicy nut-brown bowl." Pope: Wife of Bath, 213. quail-snipes, s. pl. Ornith. The family Thinocorida (q. v.). They are small birds confined to temperate South Amer ica, resembling quails in appearance, but more nearly allied to the Plovers. quaint, quainte, v. t. [An abbrev. of acquaint (q. v.).] To acquaint, to inform. * "If he travaile and quainte him well." Recorde: Castle of Knowledge. quaint, coint, *coynt, *koynt, * qeint, *quoynte, queinte, queynt, quoynte, subst. [O. French coint, from Lat. cognitus-known, wellknown, pa. par. of cognosco to know. The meaning has been influenced by Lat. comptus neat, adorned, pa. par. of como-to arrange, to adorn; Ital. conto-known, noted.] 1. Remarkable, notable, strange. 2. Noted, well-known, celebrated, famous. 3. Cunning, crafty, artful. 4. Skillful, artful, subtle, ingenious. "The erle was fulle quaynte, did mak a rich galeie, With fourscore armed knyghtes." Robert de Brunne, p. 54. 5. Prim, shy, affectedly nice, fastidious. "Every look was coy and wondrous quaint." Spenser: F. Q., IV. i. 5. *6. Fine, neat, elegant, graceful. "To show how quaint an orator you are." Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. II., iii. 2. 7. Old and antique; singular or curious from strangeness or unusual occurrence; as, a quaint dress. 8. Artificially elegant; neat, trim, pretty, pleas ing. "A fine, quaint, graceful, and excellent fashion."Shakesp.: Much Ado about Nothing, iii. 4. 9. Odd, whimsical, farfetched, curious. "Her ballad, jest, and riddle's quaint device." Beattie: The Minstrel, bk. i. *quaint-ise, *queint-ise, *quoynt-yse, subst. [O. Fr. cointise.] sin, 1. Cunning, artfulness, cleverness. 2. Strangeness, curiousness, oddness. aş; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. quaint-ly, queint-ly, *quoynte-liche, adv. spurred calyx, a single petal, and one fertile ng. quaint; -ly.] 1. Skillfully, cunningly, artfully. "A ladder quaintly made of cords." 2. Neatly, nicely. Shakesp.: Two Gentlemen, ili. 1. "The lines are very quaintly writ." Shakesp.: Two Gentlemen, ii. L 8. Ingeniously, cleverly, dexterously. "Those points, indeed, you quaintly prove." Prior: Turtle and Sparrow. 4. Oddly, whimsically, fancifully. "Hung full with flowres and garlands quaintly made." Browne: Britannia's Pastorals, ii. 3. quaint-ness, subst. [Eng, quaint; -ness.] The quality or state of being quaint. "The easy turns and quaintness of the song. Drayton: Pastorals, ecl. 9. *quair, *quaire, *cwaer, s. [O. Fr. quaier (Fr. cahier).] [QUIRE.] A little book, a pamphlet. quake, *quak-en, *cwak-i-en (pa. t. *quoke, *quook, quaked), v. t. & i. [A. S. cwacian=to quake; cf. cweccan-to wag. From the same root as quick (q. v.). Prov. German quacken; Danish quackle.] A. Intransitive: 1. To shake, to tremble, as through fear or cold. 2. To be shaken with more or less violent commo tions; to vibrate. "Anon she gan perceive the house to quake." Spenser: F. Q., IIL xii. 87. 8. To tremble, move, or give way under the feet, as from want of solidity; as, a quaking bog. *B. Trans.: To cause to quake or tremble; to frighten. "Where ladies shall be frighted And, gladly quaked, hear more." Shakesp.: Coriolanus, i. 9. quake, s. [QUAKE, v.] A quaking, a trembling, a shaking; a tremulous agitation; a shudder. "Turne ageyne in quake.”—Cursor Mundi, 927. *quake-breech, 8. A coward. quake-grass, 8. Quaking-grass (q. v.). *quake-tail, s. The wagtail (q. v.). quak-er, s. [So named by Justice Bennet, in derision of George Fox, who had admonished the Judge and those around him, when on trial for sedition in the town of Derby, England, "to quake at the word of the Lord."] 1. [FRIEND, 8., ¶ (4).] 2. The same as QUAKER-GUN (q. v.). Quakers-and-Shakers, s. pl. Bot.: Briza media. quaker-bird, 8. Ornith.: Diomedea fuliginosa, the Sooty Albatross. quaker-grass, s. Quaking-grass (q. v.). quaker-gun, 8. An imitation of a gun, made of wood or other material, and placed in the porthole of a vessel, or the embrasure of a fort, to deceive the enemy. (So called from its inoffensive character.) quâk -ĕr-ĕss, 8. [Eng. quaker; -ess.] A female quaker. quak'-er-Ish, a. [Eng. quaker; -ish.] Pertain ing or relating to quakers; resembling quakers; characteristic of quakers. "Her rippling hair covered by a quakerish net-cap."— 3. Eliot: Daniel Deronda, ch. xviii. quāk -ĕr-işm, s. [Eng. quaker; -ism.] The manners, doctrines, or practice of the quakers. "He hath helped to make quakerism, considered in its discipline, a civil community or corporation."-Warburton: Alliance between Church and State. quảk-er-lý, a. [English quaker;-ly.] Resem. bling, or characteristic of, quakers; quakerish. "You would not have Englishmen, when they are in company, hold a silent quakerly meeting."-Goodman: Winter Evening Confabulations, p. 1. quak-ing, pr. par. or a. [QUAKE, v.] quaking-grass, s. [BRIZA.] quák -lng-ly, *quak-ing-lye, adv. [Eng. quaking; -ly.] In a quaking or trembling manner; tremblingly. "But never pen did more quakingly perform his office." -Sidney: Arcadia, bk. iii. quak -, a. [Eng. quak(e); -y.] Quaking, shaking, quaggy; as, a quaky bog. "Old, and toothless, and quaky."-Thackeray: Round about Papers, No. xxix. stamen. From Brazil and Guiana. Known species about thirty. Qualea pulcherrima has the calyx blue and the petal red. qual'-I-fi-a-ble, a. [Eng. qualify; -able.] Capable of being qualified; that may or can be qualified, abated, or modified. quãl-I-fl-cã -tion, s. [Fr., from Low Lat. quali ficatus, pa. par, of qualifico-to qualify (q. v.); Ital. qualificazione.] 1. The act of qualifying; the state of being qualified; adaptation, fitness. 2. The act of qualifying, abating, or modifying; a qualifying, modifying, or extenuating circumstance; restriction, limitation. 3. That which qualifies a person or thing for any particular purpose or use, as a place, an office, an employment; any natural or acquired quality, property, or possession which fits or entitles the possessor to exercise any right, privilege, function, or duty. "The two main qualifications that go to the making up a disciple of Christ."-Sharp: Sermons, vol. i., ser. 4. *4. Appeasement, abatement. (Shakesp.: Othello, ii. 1.) qual-I-fl-ca-tive, a. & s. [English qualifica t(ion); -ive.] A. As adj.: Serving, or having the power, to qualify or modify. B. As substantive: That which serves to qualify, modify, or limit; a qualifying, modifying, or limiting term, clause, or statement. "Some who will forgive the use of our qualificatives."— Fuller: General Worthies, ch. xxi. qual'-I-fi-că-tor, s. [Low Lat.] [QUALIFY.] Roman Church: An officer of the ecclesiastical courts, whose business is to examina and prepare causes for trial. qual'-I-fied, pa. par. & a. [QUALIFY.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Having a certain qualification or qualifications; fitted by accomplishments or endowments, or by the possession of certain qualities, properties, or powers, to exercise any right, privilege, function, or duty; as, a qualified voter. *2. Accomplished, endowed. "To him that is such a qualified young gentleman."Bernard: Terence in English, p. 286. 3. Accompanied with some qualification, modification, or limit; modified, limited; as, a qualified statement. II. Eccles.: Applied to a person enabled to hold two benefices. qualified-fee, s. [FEE, 8., II. 2. (2) (a).] qualified-indorsement, s. An indorsement of a bill of exchange or promissory note, which exempts the indorser from liability, but does not affect the negotiability of the instrument; the words usually employed for this purpose are sans recours =without recourse. qualified-oath, 8. Scots Law: The oath of a party on a reference where circumstances are stated which must necessarily be taken as part of the oath, and therefore qualify the admission or denial. qualified-property, s. Law: A limited right of ownership; as (1) such right as a man has in wild animals which he has reclaimed; (2) such right as a bailee has in the chattel transferred to him by the bailment. qual'-I-fied-ly, adv. [Eng. qualified; -ly.] In a qualified manner; with qualification or limitation. quãl'-I-fied-ness, s. [English qualified; -ness.] The quality or state of being qualified or fit. qual -i-fi-ĕr, 8. [Eng. qualify; er.] One who or that which qualifies. qual'-I-fy, *qual-i-fie, v. t. & i. [Fr. qualifier, from Low Lat. qualifico to endow with a quality; Lat. qualis of what sort, and facio to make.] A. Transitive: 1. To make such as is required; to furnish with the qualifications, as knowledge, skill, or other accomplishment, necessary for any purpose; to fit for any place, office, or occupation. "To qualify yourselves for the receiving the fruits and benefits of these mercies."-Sharp: Sermons, vol. vi., ser. 16. 2. To make legally qualified or capable; to furnish with legal power, qualification, or capacity for exercising any right, privilege, function, or duty, as. to qualify a person as a voter. qually 8. To modify; to limit by exceptions or qualifications; to narrow, to restrict; as, to qualify a statement. *4. To moderate, to temper, to soften, to assuage, to abate. "Qualify the fire's extreme rage." Shakesp.: Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 7. *5. To temper, to regulate, to vary, to moderate. "It hath no larynx or throttle to qualify the sound."Browne. *6. To ease, to soothe. (Spenser: F. Q., II. vi. 51.) 7. To modify or moderate the strength of; to dilute, to weaken. (Dickens: Pickwick, ch. xxxviii.) B. Intransitive: 1. To take the necessary steps for making one's self qualified for any place, office, function, or occupation; to establish a right to exercise any right, privilege, function, or duty (followed by for); as, to qualify for a voter, to qualify for a surgeon. 2. To swear to discharge the duties of an office; hence, to make oath to any fact. (United States.) qual'-I-ta-tive, adj. [Eng. qualit(y); -ative.] Pertaining to quality; estimable according to quality. qualitative-analysis, s. [ANALYSIS.] qual-i-ta-tive-ly, adv. [Eng. qualitative; -ly.] In a qualitative manner; as regards quality. *qual-I-tled, a. [Eng. quality; ed.] Furnished or endowed with qualities or passions; accom plished. "Episcopus protested he was not so ill qualitied.”— Hales: Letter from Synod of Dort, Dec., 1618. quãi-1-ty, qual-i-tee, qual-1-tie, qual-1-tye 8. [Fr. qualite, from Lat. qualitatem, accus. of qualitas sort, kind, from qualis=of what sort; Sp calidad; Ital. qualità.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. The condition of being such or such; nature relatively considered. "The power to produce any idea in our mind, I call quality of the subject wherein that power is."-Locke: Human Underst., vol. i., bk. ii., ch. viii., § 8. 2. That makes or helps to make any person or thing such as he or it is; a distinguishing characteristic or property of a person or thing; an attribute, a property, a trait. "I have many ill qualities." Shakesp.: Much Ado About Nothing, IL. 1. 3. Virtue or power of producing particular effects; particular efficacy. *4. Particular condition, disposition, or temper; character, good or bad. "To-night we'll wander through the streets, and note the qualities of people."-Shakesp.: Antony and Cleapatra, i. 1. 5. A special or assumed character, part, or position; capacity. *6. Profession, occupation; a fraternity. "A man of such perfection As we do in our quality much want.' Shakesp.: Two Gentlemen of Verona, iv. 1. *7. Condition in relation to others; comparative rank. "Extend his might Only where qualities were level." Shakesp.: All's Well that Ends Well, i. 3. 8. Superior rank or condition; superiority of birth or station; high rank. "Any man of quality or degree." Shakesp.: Lear, v. 3. The quality: Persons of high social rank, collectively. Now only used vulgarly. "I shall appear at the masquerade dressed up in my feathers, that the quality may see how pretty they will look in their traveling habits."-Addison: Guardian. *9. A state of affairs producing certain effects; occasion, cause, ground, reason. "Know you the quality of Lord Timon's fury?" Shakesp.: Timon of Athens, iii. 6. 10. An acquirement, an accomplishment. "He had those qualities of horsemanship, dancing, and fencing, which accompany a good breeding." "-Clarendon: Civil War. *11. Manner. "Hate counsels not in such a quality." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice, iii. 2. Quality of estate: Law: The manner in which the enjoyment of an estate is to be exercised during the time for which the right of enjoyment continues. quality-binding, subst. A kind of worsted tape used in Scotland for binding the borders of carpet and the like. (Simmonds.) qual-ly, s. [Etym. doubtful.] A small ellipticaf iron pan, holding about five gallons, used in the East Indies for manufacturing sago over a fire. (Simmonds.) quã -lě-a, s. [The native name of one species in Guiana.] Bot.: A genus of Vochyace. Trees or shrubs, some of the latter 130 feet high, with a five-parted fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fâll, father; wě, wét, hëre, camel, her, thêre; pine, plt, sïre, sir, marine; gō, pot, |