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- English Word Quickset Definition To plant with living shrubs or trees for a hedge; as, to quickset a ditch.
- English Word Quicksilver Definition The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver.
- English Word Quicksilvered Definition Overlaid with quicksilver, or with an amalgam of quicksilver and tinfoil.
- English Word Quicksilvering Definition The mercury and foil on the back of a looking-glass.
- English Word Quickstep Definition A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of dancing.
- English Word Quickwork Definition All the submerged section of a vessel's planking.
- English Word Quickwork Definition The planking between the spirketing and the clamps.
- English Word Quickwork Definition The short planks between the portholes.
- English Word Quid Definition A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco.
- English Word Quid Definition To drop from the mouth, as food when partially chewed; -- said of horses.
- English Word Quidam Definition Somebody; one unknown.
- English Word Quiddany Definition A confection of quinces, in consistency between a sirup and marmalade.
- English Word Quiddative Definition Constituting, or containing, the essence of a thing; quidditative.
- English Word Quiddit Definition A subtilty; an equivocation.
- English Word Quidditative Definition Quiddative.
- English Word Quiddities Definition of Quiddity
- English Word Quiddity Definition The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or, What is it?
- English Word Quiddity Definition A trifling nicety; a cavil; a quibble.
- English Word Quiddle Definition To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.
- English Word Quiddle Definition Alt. of Quiddler
- English Word Quiddled Definition of Quiddle
- English Word Quiddler Definition One who wastes his energy about trifles.
- English Word Quiddling Definition of Quiddle
- English Word Quidnunc Definition One who is curious to know everything that passes; one who knows, or pretends to know, all that is going on.
- English Word Quiesce Definition To be silent, as a letter; to have no sound.
- English Word Quiesced Definition of Quiesce
- English Word Quiescence Definition Alt. of Quiescency
- English Word Quiescency Definition The state or quality of being quiescent.
- English Word Quiescent Definition Being in a state of repose; at rest; still; not moving; as, a quiescent body or fluid.
- English Word Quiescent Definition Not ruffed with passion; unagitated; not in action; not excited; quiet; dormant; resting.