English Dictionary: quirk | by the DICT Development Group |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Oak \Oak\ ([omac]k), n. [OE. oke, ok, ak, AS. [be]c; akin to D. eik, G. eiche, OHG. eih, Icel. eik, Sw. ek, Dan. eeg.] 1. (Bot.) Any tree or shrub of the genus {Quercus}. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut, called an {acorn}, which is more or less inclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe, Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few barely reaching the northern parts of South America and Africa. Many of the oaks form forest trees of grand proportions and live many centuries. The wood is usually hard and tough, and provided with conspicuous medullary rays, forming the silver grain. 2. The strong wood or timber of the oak. Note: Among the true oaks in America are: {Barren oak}, or {Black-jack}, {Q. nigra}. {Basket oak}, {Q. Michauxii}. {Black oak}, {Q. tinctoria}; -- called also {yellow} or {quercitron oak}. {Bur oak} (see under {Bur}.), {Q. macrocarpa}; -- called also {over-cup} or {mossy-cup oak}. {Chestnut oak}, {Q. Prinus} and {Q. densiflora}. {Chinquapin oak} (see under {Chinquapin}), {Q. prinoides}. {Coast live oak}, {Q. agrifolia}, of California; -- also called {enceno}. {Live oak} (see under {Live}), {Q. virens}, the best of all for shipbuilding; also, {Q. Chrysolepis}, of California. {Pin oak}. Same as {Swamp oak}. {Post oak}, {Q. obtusifolia}. {Red oak}, {Q. rubra}. {Scarlet oak}, {Q. coccinea}. {Scrub oak}, {Q. ilicifolia}, {Q. undulata}, etc. {Shingle oak}, {Q. imbricaria}. {Spanish oak}, {Q. falcata}. {Swamp Spanish oak}, or {Pin oak}, {Q. palustris}. {Swamp white oak}, {Q. bicolor}. {Water oak}, {Q. aguatica}. {Water white oak}, {Q. lyrata}. {Willow oak}, {Q. Phellos}. Among the true oaks in Europe are: {Bitter oak}, [or] {Turkey oak}, {Q. Cerris} (see {Cerris}). {Cork oak}, {Q. Suber}. {English white oak}, {Q. Robur}. {Evergreen oak}, {Holly oak}, [or] {Holm oak}, {Q. Ilex}. {Kermes oak}, {Q. coccifera}. {Nutgall oak}, {Q. infectoria}. Note: Among plants called oak, but not of the genus {Quercus}, are: {African oak}, a valuable timber tree ({Oldfieldia Africana}). {Australian, [or] She}, {oak}, any tree of the genus {Casuarina} (see {Casuarina}). {Indian oak}, the teak tree (see {Teak}). {Jerusalem oak}. See under {Jerusalem}. {New Zealand oak}, a sapindaceous tree ({Alectryon excelsum}). {Poison oak}, the poison ivy. See under {Poison}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Quarry \Quar"ry\, n.; pl. {Quarries}. [OE. querre, OF. cuiri[82]e, F. cur[82]e, fr. cuir hide, leather, fr. L. corium; the quarry given to the dogs being wrapped in the akin of the beast. See {Cuirass}.] 1. (a) A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds. (b) A heap of game killed. 2. The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks. [bd]The stone-dead quarry.[b8] --Spenser. The wily quarry shunned the shock. --Sir W. Scott. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Queerish \Queer"ish\, a. Rather queer; somewhat singular. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Query \Que"ry\, n.; pl. {Queries}. [L. quaere, imperative sing. of quaerere, quaesitum to seek or search for, to ask, inquire. Cf. {Acquire}, {Conquer}, {Exquisite}, {Quest}, {Require}.] 1. A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved. I shall conclude with proposing only some queries, in order to a . . . search to be made by others. --Sir I. Newton. 2. A question in the mind; a doubt; as, I have a query about his sincerity. 3. An interrogation point [?] as the sign of a question or a doubt. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Quirk \Quirk\, n. [Written also {querk}.] [Cf W. chwiori to turn briskly, or E. queer.] 1. A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger. [bd]Some quirk or . . . evasion.[b8] --Spenser. We ground the justification of our nonconformity on dark subtilties and intricate quirks. --Barrow. 2. A fit or turn; a short paroxysm; a caprice. [Obs.] [bd]Quirks of joy and grief.[b8] --Shak. 3. A smart retort; a quibble; a shallow conceit. Some odd quirks and remnants of wit. --Shak. 4. An irregular air; as, light quirks of music. --Pope. 5. (Building) A piece of ground taken out of any regular ground plot or floor, so as to make a court, yard, etc.; -- sometimes written quink. --Gwilt. 6. (Arch.) A small channel, deeply recessed in proportion to its width, used to insulate and give relief to a convex rounded molding. {Quirk molding}, a bead between two quirks. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Quirk \Quirk\, n. [Written also {querk}.] [Cf W. chwiori to turn briskly, or E. queer.] 1. A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger. [bd]Some quirk or . . . evasion.[b8] --Spenser. We ground the justification of our nonconformity on dark subtilties and intricate quirks. --Barrow. 2. A fit or turn; a short paroxysm; a caprice. [Obs.] [bd]Quirks of joy and grief.[b8] --Shak. 3. A smart retort; a quibble; a shallow conceit. Some odd quirks and remnants of wit. --Shak. 4. An irregular air; as, light quirks of music. --Pope. 5. (Building) A piece of ground taken out of any regular ground plot or floor, so as to make a court, yard, etc.; -- sometimes written quink. --Gwilt. 6. (Arch.) A small channel, deeply recessed in proportion to its width, used to insulate and give relief to a convex rounded molding. {Quirk molding}, a bead between two quirks. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Quirky \Quirk"y\, a. Full of quirks; tricky; as, a quirky lawyer. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Quarries (1.) The "Royal Quarries" (not found in Scripture) is the name given to the vast caverns stretching far underneath the northern hill, Bezetha, on which Jerusalem is built. Out of these mammoth caverns stones, a hard lime-stone, have been quarried in ancient times for the buildings in the city, and for the temples of Solomon, Zerubbabel, and Herod. Huge blocks of stone are still found in these caves bearing the marks of pick and chisel. The general appearance of the whole suggests to the explorer the idea that the Phoenician quarrymen have just suspended their work. The supposition that the polished blocks of stone for Solomon's temple were sent by Hiram from Lebanon or Tyre is not supported by any evidence (comp. 1 Kings 5:8). Hiram sent masons and stone-squarers to Jerusalem to assist Solomon's workmen in their great undertaking, but did not send stones to Jerusalem, where, indeed, they were not needed, as these royal quarries abundantly testify. (2.) The "quarries" (Heb. pesilim) by Gilgal (Judg. 3:19), from which Ehud turned back for the purpose of carrying out his design to put Eglon king of Moab to death, were probably the "graven images" (as the word is rendered by the LXX. and the Vulgate and in the marg. A.V. and R.V.), or the idol temples the Moabites had erected at Gilgal, where the children of Israel first encamped after crossing the Jordan. The Hebrew word is rendered "graven images" in Deut. 7:25, and is not elsewhere translated "quarries." |