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QUENCHABLE. the same [heat] the quencher you must be. a . 166$ J GOOD- WIN Filled w. the Spirit (1867) 353 Those quenchers of the Spirit in themselves. 1704 r. FULLER Med. Gymn, (1711) 86 Liquorice .. was ever reputed by the Ancients, for the greatest quencher of Thirst in Nature. 1848 DICKENS Dombey viii, Mrs. Pipchin's presence was a quencher to any number of candles. 1879 H. N. HUDSON Hamlet Pref. 4 A feast so overlaid with quenchers of the appetite. b. colloq. Something to quench thirst a ; drink. 44 with his thirst to . . quent But there he found or ere he went a greater drougth. fQuent, Sc. f. a(c)fuent, ACQUAINT///, a. 1536 BELLENDRN Cron. Scot. (1821) I. New servandis i4_9 ar m derisioun amang the quent servitouns. Quent, obs. f. QUAINT a. obs. ; pa. pple. of QUENCH v. Quentance, -ise, var. QUAINTANCE, -ISE. Quenthing, erron. f. QUETHING. fQue-ntin. Obs. rare ", [a. F. ijueiilin ' French Lauae'(Cotgr.). Cf. QUINTIN.] 'A sort QUERCITRON. of French Linnen-cloth that comes from S. Quentin in Picardy* (Miege 1687; also in Phillips 1706, 3. transf. To put an end to, stifle, suppress (a feeling, act, condition, quality, or other non-material thing, in early use chiefly something bad). riaoo ORMIN 4911 All idell ?ellp& i'i idell ros |>u cwennkesst. c iyt$ Songs ofMercy mE. E. P. (1862) 120, I whenched al Ji care, c 1330 R. BRUNNE Chron. Wace ( Rolls) 16357 Louerd ! JK>U quencbe his wykkednesse. 1494 FABYAN Chron, v. xci. 67 In thysc Prouynces the faythe of Criste was all quenchyd. 1545 BRINKLOW Compl. iii. (1874) 16 How mercifully dyd God quench the fury of the peple. 1631 LITHGOW Trav. in. 84 Quenching the least suspition he might conceiue. 1744 YOUNG Nt. Th, n. 340 All god-like passion for eternals quencht. 1833 HT. MARTINEAU Loom $ Lugger ii. v. 81 The observance of this rule would soon quench the desire for protection. 1876 TAIT Rec. Adv. Phys, Sc. vii. (ed. 2) 172 The final effect of the tides in stopping or quenching the earth's rotation. p. To slake (thirst) completely; t rarely, to satisfy or dispel (hunger). 1390 GOWER Conf. II. 201 Thus the thurst of gold was ueynt. 41533 LD. BERNEHS Gold. Bk, M. Aurel. (1546) ^>ijb, His hunger is not thereby quenched. 1535 COVER- DALE Ps. ciiilij. ii That the wylde asses maye quench their thyrste. 1661 LOVELL Hist. Anim, 4- Min. 335 Stickle-backs .. serve better to quench hunger, than to nourish, tyyt YOUNG Brothers iv. i, Friends, sworn to., quench infernal thirst in kindred blood. 1841 ELPHINSTONE Hist. Ind. I. 489 Where they could quench their thirst at a well of brackish water. t C. With personal object. Obs. rare. 16x1 SHAKS. Cymb. v. v. 195 Being thus quench'd Of hope, not longing [etc]. 16x4 B. JONSON Barth, Fair n. ii, A botle of Ale, to quench mee, Rascal. 4. To destroy, kill (a person) ; to oppress or crush, t Also with out. Now rare. c xsoo ORMIN 19632 pejs wolldenn himm forrfaretm all & cwennkenn. 1:1380 WYCLIF Set. Wks. III. 363 He wi|> his part J>at love)? be world quenchen men )?at speken bis. 1399 LANGL. Rick. Redeles in. 327 They constrewed quarellis to quenche the peple. 1567 Triall Treas. (18501 44, I, Tyme, . .quenche out the ungodly, their memory and fame. 1850 DOBELL Roman iv. Poet. Wks. (1875) 54 Oh sea, if thou hast waves, Quench him ! 1850 TENNYSON I'iz'icn 216 (67) His greatness whom she quench'd. absoL tr 1*00 ORMIN 15213 Swillc iss winess kinde, }iff .. mann drinnke|>j> iu att oferrdon, itt cwennkebb. b. To put down (in a dispute), to squash. 1840 DICKENS Barn. Rudge ix, I knew I should quench her, said Tim. 1868 Miss ALCOTT Little Women (1869) I. vi. 94 Jo quenched her by slamming down the window. t o. To destroy some quality of (a thing). Obs. 1398 TREVISA Barth. De P. R. xvi, vii. (1495) 556 Quycke syluer .. is quenchyd wyth spotyll whanne it is frotyd thetwyth. II. intr. f 6. Of fire, a burning thing, etc. : To he extinguished, to go out, to cease to burn or shine. Obs. 1 1190 S. Eng. Leg. I. 19/6 Heore li^t que'mcte ouer-al. c 1386 CHAUCER Knt's T. 1479 Right anon on of the fires queinte . . And as it queinte, it made a whisteling. 1460 Lybcaus Disc. 1805 The torches that brende bryght Quenched anon ryght. 1513 DOUGLAS sEneis iv. xii. 121 Thair with all the natural! neit out quent. c 1586 C'TESS PEMBROKE Ps. cxx. iv, Coales. .which quickly fired, Flame very hott, very hardly quenching. 1613 FLETCHER Bloody Brother iv. in, Like a false star that quenches as it glides. f b. transf. Of non-material : things To come to an end, perish, disappear. Obs. 1:1305 St. Edmund in in E. E. P. (1862) 74 Quenche rai^te hire fole bojt mid blod heo schadde. c j?at 1400 Rom. Rose 5324 This love, .wole faile, and quenche anoon. 1641 MILTON Reform. Wks. 1738 I. 16 The Spirit daily quench* ing and dying in them. tc. Of a : person To cool down. Obs. rare*. 1611 SHAKS. Cymb. \. v. 47 Dost thou thinke in time She will not quench, and let instructions enter Where Folly now possesses. Hence Quenched (kwenjt)///. a., extinguished. 1814 BYRON Lara i. xxix, Quench'd existence crouches in a grave. 1825 J. NEAL Bro. Jonathan III. 412 He could not bear the Took of the quenched eyes. 1868 BROWNING Ring $ Bk. vt. 148 To relume the quenched flax. Quenchable (kwe-nfab'l), a. [f, prec. + -ABLE.] That may be quenched. 1611 COTGR., Atnortissable, quenchable, stintable, dissolueable. a i6ao J. DYKE.?*/. Serm. (1640) 8 If., it be a quenchable fire. 1818 SCOTT Br. Lamm, v, Had we thought that your, .drought was quenchable. 1837 CARLYLE Fr. Rev. II. iv. ix, Fire itself is quenchable, yet only quenchable at first. Hence Que'nchableness (Bailey vol. II. 1737). t Que'nch-coal. Obs. [f. as prec. + COAL.] Something which extinguishes burning coal. In quots. fig. : An extinguisher. 1615 S. WAR ARD Coal fr. Altar Serm., etc. (1862) 71 Zeal hath in this our earthly mould little fuel, much quenchcoal. 1641 SYMONDS Serm. bef. Ho. Comm. p iii b, Opinions should not be quench-coales of love. 1741 J. WILLISON Balm ofGiUad ii. (1800) 25 Carnal company oft proves a dangerous quench-coal to zeal. Quenche, obs. form of QUINCE. Quencher (kwe-nfai). [f. as prec. -t- -ER 1 .] One who, or that which, quenches. c 1440 CAPGRAVE Life St. Kath. i. 820 Norysshere 1840 DICKENS Old C. Shof xxxv, Mr. Swiveller . replied. that be was still open of vertu and quenchere of vice. 1561 PRESTON KingCambyses&s^Qt to a 'modest quencher'. 1856!'. HUGHES Tom Brawn \. i, A pleasant public, whereat we must really take a modest quencher. 1857 KINGSLEY Two y. Ago xviii, Trebooze . . now offers Tom a ' quencher ', as he calls it. t Que-nch-fire. Obs. rare-1 . An apparatus, or substance, for extinguishing fires. 1667 EVELYN Diary 10 July, I went to see Sir Sam. Morland's inventions and machines, arithmetical wheeles, quenchfires, and new harp. Quenching (kwe-nfin), vbl. sb. [f. QUENCH v. + INQl.j 1. The action of the vb. in various senses. c luo Bestiary 207 Dat is soule drink, sinnes quenching. 1390 S. Eng. Leg I. 315/556 per is banne selde wete to maken quencningue of fuyre. 1398 TREVISA Barth. De P. R. v. xxx. (1495) 141 Quenchyng and deynge of the herte is in the nayles moste openly schewed. 1544 PHAER Regim. Life (1553) 1 ij, Stinking thinges, as assafetlda. .and the quench* yng out of candels. 1664 MARVELL Corr. Wks. 1872-5 II. 176 Engins, such as are used frequently in the quenching of great fires. 1730 SAVERY in Phil. Trans. XXXVI. 307 Steel hardened by quenching, a 1864 HAWTHORNE Amer. Note-bks. (1870) 1. 222 A quenching of the sunshine. b. spec. The process of throwing water upon the molten metal in a refining-hearth or crucible, so that it may be removed in disks or ' rosettes '. 1875 KNIGHT Diet. Meek. 1847/2, 1984/1. 2. attrib. and Comb, as quenching-test, -tub. 1875 KNIGHT Diet. Meek. 1847/2 Quenching-tub. 1879 CasseU'sTech. Educ. IV. 373/1 These conditions provide for the so called ' quenching and bending tests being applied to a piece cut from each plate and bar. So Qne nchinff ///. .] and intr. To quench. '557 Tottelts Misc. (Arb.) 262 Set about my hersse, Two lampes to burne and 'not to queint {rime spent], 1567 TuKBERv. Epit., etc., Myrr.Fall nf Pride, He thought forth- Bailey 1721). Queor, obs. form of CHOIR. Quep, erron. archaism for : guep see GUP. 1822 SCOTT Nigel iv, Marry quep of your advice. 1825 Betrothed ix, Marry quep, my cousin the weaver. t Quequer, late var. COCKER, a quiver. Obs. c 1500 Roiiii Hood ft Potter 51 in Child Ballads III. 112 To a quequer Roben went, A god bolt owthe he toke. Quer, obs. form of CHOIR, WHERE. t Queral, obs. form of CORAL. 1533 GAU Richt Vay 85 Mony prayis ye psalter of our ladie..vith queral bedis. tQuerant. Obs. rare-'1 , [a. F.?/, pple. of querir to inquire (cf. QUERE v.).'] QUERENT sb.l 1591 SPARRY tr. Cattail's Geomancie 81 The questions., touching the siluer of the brother or sister of the querant. t Querbole, obs. form of CUIR-BOUILLI. 453 Test. Ebor. (Surtees, 1855) II. 190, j par of tables .. case of querbole. Quercetin (kwausftin). Chem. [Arbitrarily f. L. juerc-us oak + -IN l. (Cf. L. quercetum an oak-wood.)] A yellow crystalline substance widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, but usually obtained by decomposition of qnercitrin. 1857 MILLER Eletn. Chem. in. 512 When quercitrin is boiled with dilute sulphuric or hydrochloric acid, it is decomposed into glucose and quercetin. 187* WATTS Diet. Chent. ist Suppl. 982 Gintl . . has found quercetin in the leaves of the ash-tree. Hence Querce tamide, an amide obtained from .quercetin in the form of an amorphous orangeyellow powder. Quercetic (kwaise'tik) a., derived from quercetin, as in qttercetic acid. 1868 WATTS Diet. Ckem. V. 3 On adding ammonia to the acid filtrate, quercetamide is obtained. Ibid. 5 Quercetin heated with potash yields quercetic acid and other products. 1893 T. E. THORPE Diet. Chem. III. 324 If the melting is continued longer than necessary to obtain quercetic acid, then quercimeric acid is obtained. t Querch e, obs. forms of CUKCH, kerchief. c .Sc. 1375 Leg. Saints ii. (Pau[) 265 With be querch [he] hid ms face. Ibid. 295 Paule myn querche gaf to me. Quercimeric (kwarsime-rik), a. Chem. [f. querci-, comb, form of L. qttercus oak + Gr. \iifxn part + -1C.] Quercimeric acid, an acid derived from quercetin or quercetic acid. 1868 WATTS Diet. Chem. V. 5 Quercimeric acid. .Produced by the action of melting potash on quercetic acid. 1893 T. E. THORPE Diet. Chem. III. 324 Quercimeric acid .. is isolated in the same manner as quercetic acid, from which it differs by being much more soluble in water. [See also QUERCETIC.] Quercin (kwausin). Chem. [f. L. quercus oak + -IN'.] (See quots.) 1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 349/2 Quercin, a neutral crystalline substance procured from the bark of the oak. 1894 ly'atts' Diet. Chem., Quercin .. occurs in oak bark, being obtained from the motner-liquors in the preparation of quercite.^ Qnercine (kwausain), a. [ad. L. quercin-us, f. quercus oak : see -INK 2 .] Of or pertaining to the oak ; made of oak, oaken. 1656 BLOUNT Glossogr., Qnercine. oken, make of Okes. 1658 PHILLIPS Quercine, belonging to an oak. 1854 B. TAYLOR Lands Saracen xxxvii. (1855) 440 The mast . . was as sweet and palatable as chestnuts, with very little of the bitter quercine flavour. Qnercitannin (kwajsitas'nin). Chem. [f. L. querci- oak- + TANNIN.] A form of tannin obtained from oak-bark. So Quercita nnic a., in quercitannic acid = quercitannin. 1845 W. GREGORY Outl. Org. Chem. 416 Tannic Acid . Syn. Quercitannic Acid, Tannine. This acid occurs chiefly in oak-bark and in nut-galls. 1852 MORFIT Tanning and Currying (1853) 78 The tannin of tea is similar in properties to quercitannin. 1895 Naturalist 25 A tannin, which is probably quercitannin. Quercite (kw5-jsait). Ckem. [f. L. quercus oak + -ITE 1 4.] A sweet crystalline alcohol obtained from acorns. 1857 MILLER Eletn. Chent. m. . . 72 Quercite from acorns. ..Transparent prisms. 1863 FOWNES Chem. 434 The juice of the acorn is submitted to fermentation. The fermented liquor, on evaporation, yields small prisms of quercite. Hence = 1 Qneroitiu(e) QUERCETIN (Webster 864, citing Gregory). Que'rcitol = QUERCITE (Watts Diet. Chem. 3rd Suppl. 1881). Quercitron (kwausitren). [Abbreviated for querci-citron, f. L. quercus oak + CITRON. Named by Dr. Bancroft about 1 784.] The black or dyer's oak of N. America : (Quercus lincloria'} also called quercitron oak. b. The inner bark of this, used as a yellow dye and in tanning : also quercitron bark. 1794 BANCROFT Philos. Perwan. Colours xii^ The Quercitron bark . . is one of the objects of a discovery, of which the use and application for dying, calico-printing, &c. are exclusively vested in me . . by an act of parliament passed in the 25th year of his present Majesty's reign. 1851 MORKIT Tanning fft Currying (1853) loo The black, or quercitron oak, is a large tree found throughout the United States. Ibid. 101 The quercitron, so much used in dyeing, is obtained from the cellular integument. attrib. 1813 \]RK Diet. Chem. (ed. 2) 398/1 Cloth .. subjected to the quercitron bath. Hence Querci'trein, a product of quercitrin.
QUERCIVOROTTS. ? Obs. Qnerci'tric a., derived from quercitrin, as in acid quercilrit (Watts Diet. Chem. 1868). the Qne-rcitriu, yellow crystalline colouring matter of quercitron bark. 1833 Kncycl. Ftrit. (ed. 7) VIII. 320/2 To this colouring matter Chevreul has given the name of quercitrin. IHd. 321/1 Yellow crystals possessing the characters of quercitrin. 1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 211/1 The tannin which quercitrin contains, .gives a green colour with peroxide of iron. 1845 Ibid. SuppH I. 349/2 On boiling a solution of quercitrin, it becomes turbid, and deposits a quantity of small acicular crystals of quercitrein. 1 Quercivorous (kwsasi'vSras , a. [f. L. quercus oak + -vorus devouring.] Feeding on oak-leaves. 1858 Zoologist XVI. An individual 6154^ [caterpillar] which had already become quercivorous. Querck, obs. form of QUIRK. t Querculane, a. Obs. rare ", [ad. mod.L. qtierculan-us, f. quercus oak.] = QUERCINE a. 1656 BLOUNT Glossogr-. [Hence in some later diets.] : Querdlynge see CODLING 2. t Quere, z". Obs. rare. Also 5 quire, [a. OF. quer-re (in conj. quier, quer- mod.F. : ; querir) L. quxrifre : see INQUIRE.] To ask, inquire. 13.. Propr. Sanct. (Vernon MS.) in Archrv neu. Spr. LXXXI. 319/7 He wolde wile and quere What-maner mon bat he were, a 1400-50 Alexander1 1703 His qualite, his quantite, he quirys [Dubl. MS. enquirez] all-to-gedire. a 1415 Cursor M. 19611 (Trin.) As he bus went to quere [Cott. sek] & aske . . pe fuyr of helle him smot. c 1425 fellows come to quere for me, Tell them I am asleep.] Quere, obs. form of CHOIR, QU^IRE, QUEER. obs. form of CUIR-BOUILLI. Quereboly, t Querelatory, a. Obs. rare', [f. ppl. stem of med.L. querelare to complain (see QUEBELE) + -OBY.l Of the nature of a complaint. '553 in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) III. i. ii. 23 [Bonner did present his libel called in the instrument] a certain appellatory and querelatory Libel. t Querele, sb. Obs. [Orig. form of QUAKRED :6.3 (q.v.), occasionally employed (prob. under influence of L. querela) after quar(r)el had become the usual form.] 1. A complaint; an action. =QuABBEL I. 1494 FABYAN Chron. an. 1123 To go before the king with a lamentable querele expressing how with true despites he was deformed. 1542 UDALL Erasrn. Apoph. 146 Such persones, as dooe by a wrongfull querele obiecte vnto me, that [etc.]. 6a8 COKE On Litt. 292 If a man release all Quereles..all actions reall and personal! are released. 1726 AYLIFFE Parerg. [189] Not in Causes of Appeal, but in Causes of first Instance and simple Querele only. 2. A cause, affair, etc. = QUARREL 2. 1551 Order St. Bartholomew's A v, So sufficiently . . set forth this enormitie of the Citezeins, as semed behouefull for the querele of charitie. 1566 GRINDAL Lett, to Sir W. Cecil Wks. (Parker Soc.) 289 All ministers, now to be deprived in this querele of rites. So f Querele v. QUARREL v. Hence t Quereler , quarreller, objector. Obs. 1549 UDALL Erasm. Apoph. 306 The faulte fynder or quereler. 1548 Par. Luke xv. 133 The elder sonne.. proudely quereled and reasoned the mattier with his father. Querele, -ell, obs. forms of QUABBEL s6.3 t QuerelOUS, a. Obs. rare. [ad. late L. quere- las-us, {. querela QUERELE.] =QUEBULOUS (q.v.). For earlier examples of the form see QUARRELLOUS. 1581 J. HAMILTON in Co/A. Tract. (S. T. S.) 84 Thir ar murmurers, querelus [L. querulosi\. 1614 Bp. HALL No Peace with Rome 2 That querelous libell of the Macedonians, a 1661 FULLER Worthies, Kent II. (1662) 74 Though the Irish are querelous generally of their Deputies . . yet ir Henry left a good memory. 1751 Affecting Narr. of Wager 32 A . . Midshipman of an insolent querelous Temper. Hence t Querelousness. Obs. rare**. 1643 PRYNNE Open. Gt. Seal Ep., The querelousnesse of the clamorous Opposites. Querent(kwi'rent), sb. 1 Also 7 queer-, [ad. L. quserent-em, pres. pple. of quxrOre to inquire : cf. QUERANT, QUERIST.] One who asks or inquires ; spec, one who consults, or seeks to learn something by means of, an astrologer. 1598 F. WITHER tr. Dariot Astrol. Judg. O 3, By this meanes the Querent shall not haue his desyre. 1647 LILLY Chr. Astrol. vi. 49 [see QUESITED], 1653 SIR G. WHARTON Comets Wks. (1683) 141 Many Queries .. which I have answered . . to my own and the Querents admiration. 1696 AUBREY Misc. (1784) 129 The Magicians now use a crystalcohere, .. which is inspected .. sometimes by the Querent himself. 1705 BOSMAN Guinea 152 If the Priest is enclined to oblige the Querent, the Questions are put. 1845 White- hall x\\. 151 The astrologer, fixing his keen, cunning eyes on the querent. 1881 [see QUESITED]. Que'rent, sb.'i and a. rare. [ad. L. querent-em, pres. pple. of queri to complain.] a. sb. ' A com- plainant, plaintiff '(!) b. adj. Complaining. 1727 in BAILEY, vol. II. 1845 Whitehall li. 363 A process in which Joyce assisted with manifest sulkiness, and many a querent glance at his young commander. Quereour, Queresoeuer, Querester(e, Querf, Querfore, obs. ff. QUARRIER i, WHERE- 80KVEH, CHORISTER, WHARF, WHEREFOBE. tQue-rical, a. and sb. Obs. rare. [f. quere QU.EBE sb., or QUERY sb. + -ICAL.] a. adj. Of the nature of a query or queries, b. sb. A query. 45 i6go (title], Querical Demonstrations writ by Prince Hutler Author of the Eleven Queries [etc.]. Ibid. 24 Don't dUdain, My Querical Strain, And 1 . . have yet in store, Of such Quericals more, At least a whole Score. Querie, obs. var. EQUERRY (q.v.). Que'ried,//*/. a. [f. QDEKV v. + -ED!.] Called in ; question marked with a query. 177* Ann, Rfg. 241/2 You have insisted, .that you should not nave rejected the queried votes, if you had not been convinced . . that they were all corrupted. Querier (kwle-ria.!). [f. QUERY z>. + -EB 1 .] One who queries also ; slang, a chimney-sweep who asks for work. 1672 PENN Spir. Truth Vind. 93 That would have been no Answer to their weighty Question, nor any allay to that earnest Enquiry.. the Queriers were under. 1861 MAYHEW Lend. Labour II. 377 The knuller is also styled a 'querier ', a name derived from his making inquiries at the doors of the houses as to whether his services are required. Querimonions (kwerim^'nias), a. Also 7 quere-. [ad. late L. : querimonios-us see next and -oos. Cf. obs. F. querimonieux (Godef.).] Full of, addicted to, complaining. 1604 in R. CAWDREY Table Alph. 1630 J. TAVLOR (Water P.) Epigr. xxxvi. Wks. II. 266/1 Querimonious paines Doe puluerise the concaue of my brames. 1658 OSBORN Adv. Son (1673) 206 Querimonious accusations of his best Servants. 1791 COLLINSON Hist. Somerset 608 It was on this solitary island that Gildas. .composed his querimonious treatise. 1848 MOZLEY Ess., Luther (1878) I. 354 That passionate and querimonious temper. Hence Querimo-niously adv. ; Querimo-iiiousness (Bailey vol. II. 1727). 01668 DENHAM A Dialogue, Most queremoniously confessing That I of late have been compressing. QueriniOliy (kwe'rimsni). [ad. L. querinwnia, f. : queri\.o complain cf. F. qutrimonie (iGthc.).] Complaint, complaining. 1539 in Froude Hist. Eng. (1856) I. 217 By way of querimony and complaint, a 1548 HALL Citron., Ediu. 7^239 b, The king .. troubled with hys brothers dayly querimonye. 1610 Bp. HALL Apol. Broitmists 39 marg., To which vniust and triuialt quenmony, our most iust defence hath beene [etc.]. 1887 BLACKMORE Springhaven (ed. 4) I. viii. 61 The scholars of the Virgil class . . had recovered from the querimonies of those two sons of Ovid. t QueTism. Obs. rare- 1 , [f. as next + -ISM.] The practice of inquiring or asking. 1648 JENKYN Blind Guide iv. 88 Your engagement against querism or seeking . . will come to nothing. Querist (kwlo'rist). [f. L. queer-Ore to ask + -1ST : cf. QUERENT, QuEBY.] One who asks or inquires a ; questioner, interrogator. 1633 EARL MANCH. Al Mondo (1636) 147 Those Querists who must haue a reason for every thing in Religion. 1713 STEELE Englishm. No. 5. 31 This Querist thinks himself., very seasonable in the Questions, a 1774 GOLDSM. Sum. Exp. Philos. (1776) II. 2 Were we asked . . what is air, we should refer the querist to his experiencealone. 1875 JOWETT Plato (ed. 2) III. 92 A troublesome querist comes and asks, ' What is the just and good? ' Querister, variant of CHOBISTEB. Querity, Querk, obs. ff. QUEERITY, QUIBK. Querken (kw5Mk'n),z>. Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 5 querkyn, qwerken, -yn, 6 quarken, 7 quirk-, whirken, 8 dial, quacken, 9 dial, wlrken, quocken, 5-6 (8-9 dial.) querken. [ = OFris. querka (mod. querke, quirke), ON. kvirkja, kyrkja (Da. kvxrke, kyrke), i. OFris. querk, ON. kverk (MSw. qvark), OHG. querca throat.] trans. To choke, suffocate, stifle. Hence Que-rkening vbl. sb. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 420/2 Querkenyd, sujfocatus. Querkenynge, sujfocacio. Querkyn, idem quod quellyn. 1450- 1530 Myrr. our Ladye 249 The bytternesse of sorowe querkynde & stopped, .the virgins harte. 1540 PALSGR. Acolastus H ij, I haue a throte bolle almoste strangled, snarled, or quarkennyd with extreme hunger. 1541 R. COPLAND Gnydon's Quest. Ckiriig,, Maner exam, lazares, Q iv, Yf there apere any straytnes of breth as yf wolde querken [sic]. 1607 WALK- INGTON Opt. Glass 124 It wil . . send up such an ascending fome that it will bee ready to quirken and stifle vs. 1611 COTGR-, Noyer, to drowne, to whirken, or stifle with water, etc. Ibid., Svffocation, a suffocation,.. whirkening. 1783 LEMON Eng. Etytn., Querkened, sometimes written, and pronounced quackned. 1828 Craven Gloss., Querkened, suffocated. 1848 A. B. EVANS Leicestersh. Words s. v., The wind was so high . . that I was welly quockened. 1880 in Cheshire Gloss. (1886), Wirken. Querl (kw5.ll), sb. U. S. Also quirl. [? var. of CURL, or a. G. querl, quirl from MHG. twirl TWIRL.] A curl, twist, twirl. 1880 in WEBSTER Suppl. 1883 Cent. Mag. Dec. 201/1 The forms are : grotesque beyond comparison twists, querls, contortions. 1885 Harpers Mag. LXX. 219 The crooks and querls of the branches on the floor. So Qnerl v., to twirl, coil, etc. (Knowles, 1835). Quern 1 (kwaan). Forms: I oweorn, cwyrn, (coern, cern), oweorne, cwearne, 4 queern(e, quyerne, qwhern, 4-7 querne, 5 queren, 5-6 qwern, 6 quearn, (wherne, wyrne), St. queirn, 7 quarn, 8 St. quirn, 7- quern. [OK. ciaeorn, cwi^rn sir. fern., cweorne wk. fem. - OFris. quern, OS. quern (or querna, MDu. i/tiereii-e, Du. kweern), OHG. quirn, churn and chuirna (MHG. kuni, kurne), ON. kvern (Icel. kvorn, Sw. qvarii , Da. tva-rti), Goth, -qairnus, from a pre-Teut. stem *g"'eni , variations of which appear in synonymous QUEKULATION. forms in other Aryan languages, as Lith. glrttos, OS1. ir/ltiy and zrfmfivfi, Kuss. SKCpHOBT,, Pol. zarna, Olr. bri (gen. broott), W. breuan, etc.] A simple apparatus for grinding corn, usually consisting of two circular stones, the upper of which is turned by hand; also, a small hand-mill for grinding pepper, mustard, or similar substances (see pepper-, mustard-quern). (-950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xxiv. 41 Tuu wif jegrundon on coernae [Kuskvi. Jet cweorne]. c 1000 VLFRIC Exod. xi. 5 Jtere wylne..bset silt xt baere cweornan. 1305 Pilate in E. E. P. (1862) in Bi a melewardes doubter he lai..And bijat on hire vnder be querne be libere bern. 1340 Ayenb. 181 Samson. .uil into be honden of his yuo, bet him deden grinde ate querne. CI374 CHAUCER Former Age 6 Onknowyn was b' quyerne and ek the melle. c 14110 Pallad. on Hush. I. 831 Eek as for hail a russet weede is To kest vpon the querne. 1513 DOUGLAS sEneis i. iv. 39 For skant of victuall the cornes in quernis of stane Thai grand. 1577 B. Gooce <strong>Here</strong>sbacKs Husb. (1586) 10 A Querne or a hand Mill doth but a little good. 164^7 LILLY Chr. Astrol. 1. 354 Some necessary thing . . to use m his house, as a Furnace or Quern, or such like. 1699 EVELYN Acetaria (1729) 148 The seeds are pounded in a Mortar, or . . ground in a Quern contriv'd for this Purpose. 1771 PENNANT Tour in Scotl. (1794) 232 Saw here a Quern, a sort of portable mill made of two stones. 1841 S. C. HALE Ireland III. 296 Two women generally worked the Quern, one sitting facing the other, the quern between them. 1884 J. COLBORNE Hicks Pasha. 60 The circular querns of Lower Egypt, which are turned by means of a wooden handle. b. attrib. and Comb., as quern-chant, -house, -mill, -picker, -song, -staff; quern-like adv. See also QUERN-STONE. 1898 Edinli. Rev. Apr. 440 In the North, where he often heard the rhythmical *quern-chant. 1525 in Southwell Visit. (1891) 123, ij leads that standes in *wherne-house. 1591 SYLVESTER Du Bartas i. vi. 595 Two equall ranks of Orient Pearls.. (*Quern-like) grinding small Th' imperfect food. 1600 HOLLAND Livy xxxm. xlv. 706 Troughs and *querne mils. 1441 in Bury Wills (Camden) 256 [The will of William Toly], ' *quernepykker ', [1441, is in Lib. Osbern, f. 247). 1816 W. TAYLOR in Monthly Rev. LXXXI. 73 We will now subjoin the Grotta-Saungr or *quern-song. 1483 CatJt. Angl. 297/1 A *Querne-staffe, inolucrum. l t Quern-. Obs. rare~ . In 5 qwerne, qweryn. App., a large piece of ice. a 1400-50 Alexander 3003 Alexander, .rydis To be grete flode of Granton & it on a glace fyndis. Or he was so?t to be side git sondird f?e qweryns [Dubl. MS. qwernes], Quern, obs. variant of KEEN z/.l Que'rnal, a. rare. [f. L. quern-us, f. quercus oak + -AL.] fl. Made of oak-leaves ; oaken. Obs. rare 1599 THYNNE Animadv. (1875) 49 The Quernall crowne gyven to those whiche had saued a cytyzen. 2. Bot. Quernal alliance, Lindley's name for his ' alliance ' of diclinous exogens, containing the orders Corylaceie an&Juglandacese. If it were not for the 1846 LINDLEY Veget. Kingd. 289 minute embryo . . it might take its place in the Quernal Alliance. { t Querne. Obs. i-nre . [a. OF. querne (Godef.) for quaterne, after terne.'} A qnatre or four in dice-playing (in quot._/ff.). 13 . . Coer de L. 2009 Richard . . gave molde . . Ternes and quernes he gave Quernell, square : see QUABNELL. Querner, obs. form of CORNER si. 1 1 . him a stroke on the him there. Que'rn-stone. [Cf. ON. kvemsleinn.] One ofthe two stones forming a quern ; a millstone. C9SO Lindisf. Gosp. Matt, xviii. 6 Behofas him baet he gehongiga coern-stan . . in suire his [c 1000 Ags. Gosp. cwyrn-, cweorn-stan], 1388 WYCLIF Num. xi. 8 And the puple jede aboute, and gaderide it, and brak with a queerne stoon. 14 . . Notn. in Wr.-Wulcker 725/24 Hec mola, a qwernston. 1581 STANVHURSTyiEj I. (Arb.) 23 Theyre corne in quern- Sloans they doe grind. 1610 HOLLAND Camden's Brit. I. 760 Round stones as much as milstones or quernstones. 1663 Ireland, Stat. at Large (1765) II. 416 Quern-stones, large, the last, 13. IM. 1811 J. SMYTH Pract. of Customs (1821) 242 Quern Stones under three feet in diameter, and not exceeding six inches in thickness. 1875 W. MC!LWRAITH ofthe Church GuideWigtowushire^ Opposite the east gable a quern-stone . . has been stuck up. Querof, obs. form of WHEREOF. t Queror. Obs. rare-", [a, OF. quereor, -cut; agent-n. f. querre, querir QUERE v.] An inquirer. 14.. Voc. in Wr.-Wulcker 610/18 Scitor, a querour. Querpo, variant of CUEBPO Obs. Querquedule (kwa-jkwWi;;!). Omith. [ad. \Jquerquedula a species of duck.] a. ' A genus of ducks, one species of which . . is the common teal ' (Worcester, i86o\ b. ' The pin-tail duck ' (Webster, 1864, citing Eng. Cyc.}. Querre, var. QDAB v. obs. f. ; QUARRY rf.i Querrell, Querrister, Querrour, Querry, obs.ff. QUARREL sb.3 and v., CHORISTER, QUARRIER >, : EQUERRY. Quert see QUART a. and sW of action 1 t Obs. rare , [n. Querulation. f. med.L. juerularilo complain, f. quenil-us: see next.] Complaint, complaining. So also (from stem /-) Quernle-ntal, -le-ntialn., querulous. Qne'rnUng vbl.sb., complaining. Qne'rnlist, one who complains. Qnertrlity, Qnerulo-sity (cf. next"), habit or spirit of complaining.
Page 1 and 2: the seventeenth letter of the moder
Page 3 and 4: QtTACKSALVING. QUADRANGLE. drugs. 1
Page 5 and 6: QTJADRANTILE. meteors falling on Ja
Page 7 and 8: QUADBI-. They separate the *quadric
Page 9 and 10: QUADROON. 1825 T. THOMSON isf Trine
Page 11 and 12: QUAERE. quaere, .as to the reason f
Page 13 and 14: QUAIL. losing heart, etc. 1549 COVE
Page 15 and 16: QUAKE. It appears, however, from a
Page 17 and 18: QUALIFY. 1549 LATIMER tth Serm. Edw
Page 19 and 20: QUALM. qu- t fhualm (MIIG. qualm an
Page 21 and 22: QUANTITY. 1668 WILKINS Real Char. i
Page 23 and 24: QUARREL. bodye. 1871 WISE ffe-.u Fo
Page 25 and 26: QUARRY. 1647 FAXSHAU-E tr. Pastor F
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Page 31 and 32: QUARTERAGE. 12. intr. Of the moon:
Page 33 and 34: QUARTER-PIECE. tan, dial wartern, 6
Page 35 and 36: QUASHEE. quashed all farther proced
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Page 39 and 40: QUEBRACHO. queasy stomachs. 1889 C.
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Page 51 and 52: QUIBBLE. 1711 ADDISON Sfcct. No. 61
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Page 55 and 56: QUICKEN. MARKHAM Caval. i. (1617) 5
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Page 59 and 60: QUIET. SHELLEV A lastor 393 A smoot
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Page 65 and 66: QUININE. Quinine (kwinz'n, -ai-n, U
Page 67 and 68: QUINQUINA. xxi. (1794) 291 Their co
Page 69 and 70: QUINTUPLET. 1816 SOUTHEY in Q. Rev.
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