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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Quit'rĕnt, n.p. 1078(Law.) A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quieted or quit from all other service. Blackstone. In some of the United States a fee-farm rent is so termed. Burrill.
  2. Quĭtsp. 1078See QUIT, a.
  3. Quit'ta-ble, a.p. 1078Capable of being quitted or vacated. [Rare.] Markland.
  4. Quit'tal, n.p. 1078Return; repayment; requital. [Obs.]
  5. Quit'tance, n.p. 1078Discharge from a debt or obligation; acquittance. Omittance is no quittance. Shak. 2. Recompense; return; repayment. Shak.
  6. Quit'tance, v. t.p. 1078To repay; to requite. [Obs.] Shak.
  7. Quit'ter, n.p. 1078One who quits. 2. A deliverer. [Obs.] Ainsworth. 3. Scoria of tin. [Obs.] Ainsworth.
  8. Quit'tor, n.p. 1078(Far.) An ulcer formed between the hair and hoof, usually on the inside quarter of a horse’s foot. 2. Matter flowing from a sore or wound. [Obs.]
  9. Quittor-bonep. 1078a hard, round swelling upon the coronet, between the heel and the quarter.
  10. Quit'türe, n.p. 1078A discharge; an issue. [Obs.] “To cleanse the quitture from thy wound.” Chapman.
  11. Quīv'er, n.p. 1078A case or sheath for arrows. Beside him hung his bow And quiver, with three-bolted thunder stored.
  12. Quiv'er, a.p. 1078Nimble; active. [Obs.] Shak.
  13. Quiv'er, v. i.p. 1078To shake with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver. The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind. Shak. And left the limbs still quivering on the ground. Addison.
  14. Quiv'ered, a.p. 1078Furnished with a quiver. “Like a quivered nymph with arrows.” Milton. 2. Sheathed, as in a quiver. “Whose quills stand quivered at his ear.” Pope.
  15. Quiv'er-ing-ly, adv.p. 1078With quivering.
  16. Qui' vīvep. 1078The challenge of a French sentinel, To what party do you belong? i. e., for whom do you cry vive; corresponding to, Who goes there? Hence, to be on the qui vive, to be on the alert, like a sentinel.
  17. Quix-ōt'ic, a.p. 1078Like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance. “Feats of quixotic gallantry.” Prescott.
  18. Quix-ŏt'ic-al-ly, adv.p. 1078In a mad or romantic manner.
  19. Quix'ot-ism, n.p. 1078Romantic and absurd notions; schemes or actions like those of Don Quixote, the hero of Cervantes.
  20. Quix'ot-ry, n.p. 1078Quixotism; visionary scheme.
  21. Quiz, n.p. 1078A riddle or obscure question; an enigma. 2. One who quizzes others; as, he is a great quiz. 3. An odd fellow. Smart.
  22. Quiz, v. t.p. 1078To puzzle; to run upon; to ridicule or make sport of. He quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room. Thackeray. 2. To look sharply and mockingly at; to peer at; to eye suspiciously.
  23. Quiz'zer, n.p. 1078One who quizzes others, or makes them the objects of sport by deceiving them.
  24. Quiz'zie-al, a.p. 1078Comical. [Colloq.]
  25. Quiz'zing-glāss, n.p. 1078A small eye-glass.
  26. Quiz'zism, n.p. 1078The act of one who quizzes; the habit of quizzing.
  27. Quōb, v. i.p. 1078To move, as the fetus in utero; to throb; to quiver. [Local and vulgar.]
  28. Quōd, v. i.p. 1078Quoth; said. See QUOTH. [Obs.]
  29. Quōd'dy, n.p. 1078A kind of scaled herrings, cured in North America by smoking or salting. Simmonds.
  30. Quōd'li-bet, n.p. 1078A nice point; a subtlety. These are your quodlibets, but no learning, brother. Fletcher. 2. (Mus.) A medley improvised by several performers.
  31. Quōd’lib-e-tā’ri-an, n.p. 1078One who talks and disputes on any subject at pleasure. [Obs.]
  32. Quōd'li-bē'tie-al, a.p. 1078Not restricted to a particular subject; moved or discussed at pleasure for curiosity or entertainment. [Obs.]
  33. Quŏd'li-bĕt'ie-al-ly, adv.p. 1078At pleasure; for curiosity; so as to be debated for entertainment. [Obs.]
  34. Quoif, n.p. 1078A cap or hood; a coif. Shak. In this word, and also in quoit, quote, quotation, and quotient, the u was formerly suppressed in pronunciation.
  35. Quoif, v. t.p. 1078To cover or dress with a coif. See COIF.
  36. Quoif'fûre, n.p. 1078A head-dress.
  37. Quoil, n.p. 1078A coil. See COIL.
  38. Quoin, n.p. 1078Any external angle; especially (Arch.), the external angle of a building; sometimes, formerly, vertical angular projections formed on the face of a wall for ornament. Oxf. Gloss. 2. A wedge-like…
  39. Quoit, n.p. 1078A circular ring or piece of iron, stone, or other material, to be pitched or thrown at a fixed object in play. 2. The discus of the ancients, thrown in trials of strength.
  40. Quoit, v. i.p. 1078To throw quoits; to play at quoits.
  41. Quoit, v. t.p. 1078To throw. Quoit him down, Randolph. Shak. 2. To drive away. Ford.
  42. Quŏll, n.p. 1078(Zoöl.) A marsupial quadruped of Australia; Dasyurus macrurus. It is nearly the size of a cat.
  43. Quōn'dam, a.p. 1078Having been formerly; former. This is the quondam king. Shak.
  44. Quōn'dam, n.p. 1078A person formerly in any position, office, &c.; one ejected from a position. [Rare.] Make them quondams; out with them; cast them out of their office. Latimer.
  45. Quōok, imp.p. 1078of quake. [Obs.] Spenser.
  46. Quōp, v. i.p. 1078See QUOB.
  47. Quō'rum, n.p. 1078Such a number of the officers or members of any body as is competent by law or constitution to transact business; as, a quorum of the House of Representatives; a constitutional quorum was not…
  48. Quō'tā, n.p. 1078A proportional part or share; or the share, part, or proportion assigned to each. “Quota of troops and money.” Mottley.
  49. Quōt'a-ble, a.p. 1078Capable or worthy of being quoted or cited.
  50. Quo-tā'tion, n.p. 1078The act of quoting or citing. 2. That which is quoted or cited; the part of a book or writing named, repeated, or adduced as evidence or illustration. Locke. 3. (Com.) The naming of the current price…
  51. Quo-tā'tion-ist, n.p. 1078A person who makes quotations. “The narrow intellectuals of quotationists.” Milton.
  52. Quōte, v. t.p. 1078To cite, as a passage from some author; to name, repeat, or adduce, as a passage from an author or speaker, by way of authority or illustration; as, to quote a passage from Homer; to quote chapter…
  53. Quōte, n.p. 1078A note upon an author. [Obs.] Cotgrave.
  54. Quōte'less, a.p. 1078Not capable or worthy of being quoted.
  55. Quōt'er, n.p. 1078One who cites the words of an author or speaker.
  56. Quoth, v. i.p. 1078Said; spoke; — used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses; as, quoth I, quoth he, and with the nominative always following the verb. Let me not live, quoth he. Shak.
  57. Quoth’á, interj.p. 1078Indeed! To affront the blessed hillside drabs and thieves With mended morals, quotha, — fine new lives! E. B. Browning.
  58. Quo-tĭd'i-an, a.p. 1078Occurring or returning daily; as, a quotidian fever.
  59. Quo-tĭd'i-an, n.p. 1078Any thing returning daily; especially (Med.), a fever whose paroxysms return every day. Milton.
  60. Quō'tient, n.p. 1078(Arith.) The number resulting from the division of one number by another, and showing how often a less number is contained in a greater; thus, the quotient of twelve divided by four is three;—applied…