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- English Word Quartzy Definition Quartzose.
- English Word Quas Definition A kind of beer. Same as Quass.
- English Word Quaschi Definition Alt. of Quasje
- English Word Quash Definition Same as Squash.
- English Word Quash Definition To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment.
- English Word Quash Definition To beat down, or beat in pieces; to dash forcibly; to crush.
- English Word Quash Definition To crush; to subdue; to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely; as, to quash a rebellion.
- English Word Quash Definition To be shaken, or dashed about, with noise.
- English Word Quashed Definition of Quash
- English Word Quashee Definition A negro of the West Indies.
- English Word Quashing Definition of Quash
- English Word Quasi Definition As if; as though; as it were; in a manner sense or degree; having some resemblance to; qualified; -- used as an adjective, or a prefix with a noun or an adjective; as, a quasi contract, an implied contract, an obligation which has arisen from some act, as if from a contract; a quasi corporation, a body that has some, but not all, of the peculiar attributes of a corporation; a quasi argument, that which resembles, or is used as, an argument; quasi historical, apparently historical, seeming to be historical.
- English Word Quasimodo Definition The first Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.
- English Word Quasje Definition The brown coati. See Coati.
- English Word Quass Definition A thin, sour beer, made by pouring warm water on rye or barley meal and letting it ferment, -- much used by the Russians.
- English Word Quassation Definition The act of shaking, or the state of being shaken.
- English Word Quassia Definition The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarubeae, as Quassia amara, Picraena excelsa, and Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer.
- English Word Quassin Definition The bitter principle of quassia, extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called quassite.
- English Word Quat Definition A pustule.
- English Word Quat Definition An annoying, worthless person.
- English Word Quat Definition To satiate; to satisfy.
- English Word Quata Definition The coaita.
- English Word Quatch Definition Squat; flat.
- English Word Quater-cousin Definition A cousin within the first four degrees of kindred.
- English Word Quaternary Definition Consisting of four; by fours, or in sets of four.
- English Word Quaternary Definition Later than, or subsequent to, the Tertiary; Post-tertiary; as, the Quaternary age, or Age of man.
- English Word Quaternary Definition The number four.
- English Word Quaternary Definition The Quaternary age, era, or formation. See the Chart of Geology.
- English Word Quaternate Definition Composed of, or arranged in, sets of four; quaternary; as, quaternate leaves.
- English Word Quaternion Definition The number four.