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  • English Word Qraspine Definition of Grasp
  • English Word Qua Definition In so far as; in the capacity or character of; as.
  • English Word Qua-bird Definition The American night heron. See under Night.
  • English Word Quab Definition An unfledged bird; hence, something immature or unfinished.
  • English Word Quab Definition See Quob, v. i.
  • English Word Quacha Definition The quagga.
  • English Word Quack Definition Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.
  • English Word Quack Definition Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.
  • English Word Quack Definition A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
  • English Word Quack Definition The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.
  • English Word Quack Definition To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
  • English Word Quack Definition To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
  • English Word Quack Definition To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
  • English Word Quack grass Definition See Quitch grass.
  • English Word Quackeries Definition of Quackery
  • English Word Quackery Definition The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism.
  • English Word Quacking Definition of Quack
  • English Word Quackish Definition Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery.
  • English Word Quackism Definition Quackery.
  • English Word Quackle Definition To suffocate; to choke.
  • English Word Quackled Definition of Quackle
  • English Word Quackling Definition of Quackle
  • English Word Quacksalver Definition One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank.
  • English Word Quad Definition A quadrangle; hence, a prison.
  • English Word Quad Definition Alt. of Quade
  • English Word Quad Definition A quadrat.
  • English Word Quade Definition Evil; bad; baffling; as, a quade wind.
  • English Word Quadra Definition The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like.
  • English Word Quadra Definition A fillet, or listel.
  • English Word Quadrable Definition 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.