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Quad \Quad\, Quade \Quade\, a. [Akin to AS. cw[aemac]d, cwead, dung, evil, G. kot, dung, OHG. qu[be]t.] Evil; bad; baffling; as, a quade wind. [Obs.] Sooth play, quad play, as the Fleming saith. --Chaucer. | |
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Quad \Quad\, n. (Arch.) A quadrangle; hence, a prison. [Cant or Slang] | |
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Quad \Quad\, n. (Print.) A quadrat. | |
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Quad \Quad\, Quade \Quade\, a. [Akin to AS. cw[aemac]d, cwead, dung, evil, G. kot, dung, OHG. qu[be]t.] Evil; bad; baffling; as, a quade wind. [Obs.] Sooth play, quad play, as the Fleming saith. --Chaucer. | |
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Quat \Quat\, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (a) A pustule. [Obs.] (b) An annoying, worthless person. --Shak. | |
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Quat \Quat\, v. t. To satiate; to satisfy. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Quata \Qua"ta\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The coaita. | |
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Quayd \Quayd\, p. p. of {Quail}. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Quet \Quet\, n. (Zo[94]l.) The common guillemot. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Quid \Quid\, n. [Etym. uncertain.] An English coin, a sovereign. [Slang, Eng.] They invited him to come to-morrow, . . . and bring half a quid with him. --Charles Reade. | |
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Quid \Quid\, n. [See {Cud}.] A portion suitable to be chewed; a cud; as, a quid of tobacco. | |
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Quid \Quid\, v. t. (Man.) To drop from the mouth, as food when partially chewed; -- said of horses. --Youatt. | |
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Quiet \Qui"et\, a. [Compar. {Quieter}; superl. {Quietest}.] [L. quietus, p. p. pf quiescere to rest, keep quiet; akin to quies rest, and prob. to E. while, n. See {While}, and cf. {Coy}, a., {Quiesce}, {Quietus}, {Quit}, a., {Quite}, {Requiem}.] 1. In a state of rest or calm; without stir, motion, or agitation; still; as, a quiet sea; quiet air. They . . . were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him. --Judg. xvi. 2. 2. Free from noise or disturbance; hushed; still. 3. Not excited or anxious; calm; peaceful; placid; settled; as, a quiet life; a quiet conscience. [bd] So quiet and so sweet a style.[b8] --Shak. That son, who on the quiet state of man Such trouble brought. --Milton. 4. Not giving offense; not exciting disorder or trouble; not turbulent; gentle; mild; meek; contented. The ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. --1 Pet. iii. 4. I will sit as quiet as a lamb. --Shak. 5. Not showy; not such as to attract attention; undemonstrative; as, a quiet dress; quiet colors; a quiet movement. Syn: Still; tranquil; calm; unruffled; smooth; unmolested; undisturbed; placid; peaceful; mild; peaceable; meek; contented. | |
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Quiet \Qui"et\, v. i. To become still, silent, or calm; -- often with down; as, be soon quieted down. | |
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Quiet \Qui"et\, n. [L. quies, -etis. See {Quiet}, a.] 1. The quality or state of being quiet, or in repose; as an hour or a time of quiet. 2. Freedom from disturbance, noise, or alarm; stillness; tranquillity; peace; security. And join with thee, calm Peace and Quiet. --Milton. {At quiet}, still; peaceful. {In quiet}, quietly. [bd] I will depart in quiet.[b8] --Shak. {Out of quiet}, disturbed; restless. [Obs.] [bd]She is much out of quiet.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Quiet \Qui"et\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Quieted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Quieting}.] 1. To stop motion in; to still; to reduce to a state of rest, or of silence. 2. To calm; to appease; to pacify; to lull; to allay; to tranquillize; as, to quiet the passions; to quiet clamors or disorders; to quiet pain or grief. Quiet yourselves, I pray, and be at peace. --Shak. | |
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Quit \Quit\, v. i. To away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease. | |
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Quit \Quit\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See {Banana quit}, under {Banana}, and {Guitguit}. | |
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Quit \Quit\, a. [OE. quite, OF. quite, F. quitte. See {Quit}, v., {Quirt}.] Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted. --Chaucer. The owner of the ox shall be quit. --Ex. xxi. 28. Note: This word is sometimes used in the form quits, colloquially; as, to be quits with one, that is, to have made mutual satisfaction of demands with him; to be even with him; hence, as an exclamation: Quits! we are even, or on equal terms. [bd]To cry quits with the commons in their complaints.[b8] --Fuller. | |
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Quit \Quit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Quit} or {Quitted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Quitting}.] [OE. quiten, OF. quiter, quitier, cuitier, F. quitter, to acquit, quit, LL. quietare, fr. L. quietare to calm, to quiet, fr. quietus quiet. See {Quiet}, a., and cf. {Quit}, a., {Quite}, {Acquit}, {Requite}.] 1. To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate. [R.] To quit you of this fear, you have already looked Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it? --Wake. 2. To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit. There may no gold them quyte. --Chaucer. God will relent, and quit thee all his debt. --Milton. 3. To discharge, as an obligation or duty; to meet and satisfy, as a claim or debt; to make payment for or of; to requite; to repay. The blissful martyr quyte you your meed. --Chaucer. Enkindle all the sparks of nature To quit this horrid act. --Shak. Before that judge that quits each soul his hire. --Fairfax. 4. To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively. Be strong, and quit yourselves like men. --I Sam. iv. 9. Samson hath guit himself Like Samson. --Milton. 5. To carry through; to go through to the end. [Obs.] Never worthy prince a day did quit With greater hazard and with more renown. --Daniel. 6. To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to quit the place; to quit jesting. Such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth for appearance. --Locke. {To quit cost}, to pay; to reimburse. {To quit scores}, to make even; to clear mutually from demands. Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it? --South. Syn: To leave; relinquish; resign; abandon; forsake; surrender; discharge; requite. Usage: {Quit}, {Leave}. Leave is a general term, signifying merely an act of departure; quit implies a going without intention of return, a final and absolute abandonment. | |
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Guitguit \Guit"guit`\, n. [So called from its note.] (Zo[94]l.) One of several species of small tropical American birds of the family {C[d2]rebid[91]}, allied to the creepers; -- called also {quit}. See {Quit}. | |
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Quit \Quit\, v. i. To away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease. | |
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Quit \Quit\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See {Banana quit}, under {Banana}, and {Guitguit}. | |
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Quit \Quit\, a. [OE. quite, OF. quite, F. quitte. See {Quit}, v., {Quirt}.] Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted. --Chaucer. The owner of the ox shall be quit. --Ex. xxi. 28. Note: This word is sometimes used in the form quits, colloquially; as, to be quits with one, that is, to have made mutual satisfaction of demands with him; to be even with him; hence, as an exclamation: Quits! we are even, or on equal terms. [bd]To cry quits with the commons in their complaints.[b8] --Fuller. | |
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Quit \Quit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Quit} or {Quitted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Quitting}.] [OE. quiten, OF. quiter, quitier, cuitier, F. quitter, to acquit, quit, LL. quietare, fr. L. quietare to calm, to quiet, fr. quietus quiet. See {Quiet}, a., and cf. {Quit}, a., {Quite}, {Acquit}, {Requite}.] 1. To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate. [R.] To quit you of this fear, you have already looked Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it? --Wake. 2. To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit. There may no gold them quyte. --Chaucer. God will relent, and quit thee all his debt. --Milton. 3. To discharge, as an obligation or duty; to meet and satisfy, as a claim or debt; to make payment for or of; to requite; to repay. The blissful martyr quyte you your meed. --Chaucer. Enkindle all the sparks of nature To quit this horrid act. --Shak. Before that judge that quits each soul his hire. --Fairfax. 4. To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively. Be strong, and quit yourselves like men. --I Sam. iv. 9. Samson hath guit himself Like Samson. --Milton. 5. To carry through; to go through to the end. [Obs.] Never worthy prince a day did quit With greater hazard and with more renown. --Daniel. 6. To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to quit the place; to quit jesting. Such a superficial way of examining is to quit truth for appearance. --Locke. {To quit cost}, to pay; to reimburse. {To quit scores}, to make even; to clear mutually from demands. Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it? --South. Syn: To leave; relinquish; resign; abandon; forsake; surrender; discharge; requite. Usage: {Quit}, {Leave}. Leave is a general term, signifying merely an act of departure; quit implies a going without intention of return, a final and absolute abandonment. | |
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Guitguit \Guit"guit`\, n. [So called from its note.] (Zo[94]l.) One of several species of small tropical American birds of the family {C[d2]rebid[91]}, allied to the creepers; -- called also {quit}. See {Quit}. | |
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Quite \Quite\, v. t. & i. See {Quit}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Quite \Quite\, adv. [F. quite discharged, free, clear; cf. OF. quitement freely, frankly, entirely. See {Quit}, a.] 1. Completely; wholly; entirely; totally; perfectly; as, the work is not quite done; the object is quite accomplished; to be quite mistaken. Man shall not quite be lost, but saved who will. --Milton. The same actions may be aimed at different ends, and arise from quite contrary principles. --Spectator. 2. To a great extent or degree; very; very much; considerably. [bd]Quite amusing.[b8] --Macaulay. He really looks quite concerned. --Landor. The island stretches along the land and is quite close to it. --Jowett (Thucyd. ). | |
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Quod \Quod\, v. t. To put in quod, or prison; to lock up; to jug. [Slang] --Kipling. | |
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Quod \Quod\, n. [For quad, abbrev. of quadrangle.] A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; hence, a prison. [Slang] [bd]Flogged or whipped in quod.[b8] --T. Hughes. | |
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Quod \Quod\, v. Quoth; said. See {Quoth}. [Obs.] [bd]Let be,[b8] quod he, [bd]it shall not be.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
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Quoit \Quoit\, n. [OE. coite; cf. OF. coitier to spur, press, (assumed) LL. coctare, fr. L. coquere, coctum, to cook, burn, vex, harass, E. cook, also W. coete[?] a quoit.] 1. (a) A flattened ring-shaped piece of iron, to be pitched at a fixed object in play; hence, any heavy flat missile used for the same purpose, as a stone, piece of iron, etc. (b) pl. A game played with quoits. --Shak. 2. The discus of the ancients. See {Discus}. 3. A cromlech. [Prov. Eng.] --J. Morley. | |
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Quoit \Quoit\, v. i. To throw quoits; to play at quoits. To quoit, to run, and steeds and chariots drive. --Dryden. | |
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Quoit \Quoit\, v. t. To throw; to pitch. [Obs. or R.] --Shak. | |
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Quota \Quo"ta\, n. [LL., fr. L. quota (sc. pars), fr. quotus which or what in number, of what number, how many, fr. quot how many, akin to quis, qui, who: cf. It. quota a share. See {Who}.] A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division. [bd]Quota of troops and money.[b8] | |
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Quote \Quote\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Quoted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Quoting}.] [OF. quoter, F. coter to letter, number, to quote, LL. quotare to divide into chapters and verses, fr. L. quotus. See {Quota}.] [Formerly written also {cote}.] 1. To 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. 2. To cite a passage from; to name as the authority for a statement or an opinion; as, to quote Shakespeare. 3. (Com.) To name the current price of. 4. To notice; to observe; to examine. [Obs.] --Shak. 5. To set down, as in writing. [Obs.] [bd]He's quoted for a most perfidious slave.[b8] --Shak. Syn: To cite; name; adduce; repeat. Usage: {Quote}, {Cite}. To cite was originally to call into court as a witness, etc., and hence denotes bringing forward any thing or person as evidence. Quote usually signifies to reproduce another's words; it is also used to indicate an appeal to some one as an authority, without adducing his exact words. | |
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Quote \Quote\, n. A note upon an author. [Obs.] --Cotgrave. | |
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Quoth \Quoth\, v. t. [AS. cwe[edh]an, imp cw[91][edh], pl. cw[aemac]don; akin to OS. que[edh]an, OHG. quethan, quedan, Icel. kve[edh]a, Goth. qi[thorn]an. [root]22. Cf. {Bequeath}.] Said; spoke; uttered; -- used only in the first and third persons in the past tenses, and always followed by its nominative, the word or words said being the object; as, quoth I. quoth he. [bd]Let me not live, quoth he.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Quotha \Quoth"a\, interj. [For quoth'a, said he, 'a being corrupted from he.] Indeed; forsooth. To affront the blessed hillside drabs and thieves With mended morals, quotha, -- fine new lives ! --Mrs. Browning. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
quad n. 1. Two bits; syn. for {quarter}, {crumb}, {tayste}. 2. A four-pack of anything (compare {hex}, sense 2). 3. The rectangle or box glyph used in the APL language for various arcane purposes mostly related to I/O. Former Ivy-Leaguers and Oxford types are said to associate it with nostalgic memories of dear old University. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
quad 1. Two bits; synonym for {quarter}, {crumb}, {tayste}. 2. A four-pack of anything (compare {hex}). 3. The rectangle or box glyph used in the APL language for various arcane purposes mostly related to I/O. Former Ivy-Leaguers and Oxford types are said to associate it with nostalgic memories of dear old University (short for "quadrangle"). [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Quty A functional plus logic language. "Quty: A Functional Language Based on Unification", M. Sato et al, in Conf. Fifth Gen. Computer Systems, ICOT 1984, pp.157-165. |