Qassam Brigades
         n 1: the military arm of Hamas responsible for suicide bombings
               and other attacks on Israel [syn: {Qassam Brigades}, {Salah
               al-Din Battalions}, {Iz Al-Din Al-Qassam Battalions}]

English Dictionary: Qassam Brigades	by the DICT Development Group
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Quicken tree \Quick"en tree`\ [Probably from quick, and first       applied to the aspen or some tree with quivering leaves; cf.       G. quickenbaum, quizenbaum, quitschenbaum. Cf. {Quitch       grass}.] (Bot.)       The European rowan tree; -- called also {quickbeam}, and       {quickenbeam}. See {Rowan tree}.