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- English Word Quail Definition To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power of resistance; to lose heart; to give way; to shrink; to cower.
- English Word Quail Definition To cause to fail in spirit or power; to quell; to crush; to subdue.
- English Word Quail Definition To curdle; to coagulate, as milk.
- English Word Quail Definition Any gallinaceous bird belonging to Coturnix and several allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, the stubble quail (C. pectoralis), and the Australian swamp quail (Synoicus australis).
- English Word Quail Definition Any one of several American partridges belonging to Colinus, Callipepla, and allied genera, especially the bobwhite (called Virginia quail, and Maryland quail), and the California quail (Calipepla Californica).
- English Word Quail Definition Any one of numerous species of Turnix and allied genera, native of the Old World, as the Australian painted quail (Turnix varius). See Turnix.
- English Word Quail Definition A prostitute; -- so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
- English Word Quaily Definition The upland plover.
- English Word Quaint Definition Curious and fanciful; affected; odd; whimsical; antique; archaic; singular; unusual; as, quaint architecture; a quaint expression.
- English Word Quaint Definition Characterized by ingenuity or art; finely fashioned; skillfully wrought; elegant; graceful; nice; neat.
- English Word Quaint Definition Prudent; wise; hence, crafty; artful; wily.
- English Word Quaintise Definition Craft; subtlety; cunning.
- English Word Quaintise Definition Elegance; beauty.
- English Word Quaintly Definition In a quaint manner.
- English Word Quaintness Definition The quality of being quaint.
- English Word Quair Definition A quire; a book.
- English Word Quake Definition To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble.
- English Word Quake Definition To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid, as soft, wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind; as, the earth quakes; the mountains quake.
- English Word Quake Definition To cause to quake.
- English Word Quake Definition A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder; a quivering.
- English Word Quaked Definition of Quake
- English Word Quaker Definition Any grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so called from the quaking noise made during flight.
- English Word Quaker Definition The sooty albatross.
- English Word Quaker Definition The nankeen bird.
- English Word Quaker Definition One who quakes.
- English Word Quaker Definition One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire, England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends. They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4.
- English Word Quakeress Definition A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends.
- English Word Quakerish Definition Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.
- English Word Quakerism Definition The peculiar character, manners, tenets, etc., of the Quakers.
- English Word Quakerlike Definition Like a Quaker.