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   quetch
         v 1: express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or
               unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot
               to kick about" [syn: {complain}, {kick}, {plain}, {sound
               off}, {quetch}, {kvetch}] [ant: {cheer}, {cheer up}, {chirk
               up}]

English Dictionary: quetch by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
quietus
n
  1. euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep"
    Synonym(s): rest, eternal rest, sleep, eternal sleep, quietus
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
quits
adj
  1. on equal terms by payment or requital; "we're now quits"; "finally quits with the loan"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
quoits
n
  1. a game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it
    Synonym(s): quoits, horseshoes
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quatch \Quatch\, a.
      Squat; flat. [Obs.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quietage \Qui"et*age\, n.
      Quietness. [Obs.] --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quietus \Qui*e"tus\, n. [LL. quietus quit, discharged, L., at
      rest, quiet, dead. See {Quiet}, a., and cf. {Quit}, a.]
      Final discharge or acquittance, as from debt or obligation;
      that which silences claims; (Fig.) rest; death.
  
               When he himself might his quietus make With a bare
               bodkin.                                                   --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quitch \Quitch\, n.
      1. (Bot.) Same as {Quitch grass}.
  
      2. Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil.
  
                     To pick the vicious quitch Of blood and custom
                     wholly out of him.                              --Tennyson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quits \Quits\, interj.
      See the Note under {Quit}, a.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Quoddies \Quod"dies\, n. pl.
      Herring taken and cured or smoked near Quoddy Head, Maine, or
      near the entrance of Passamaquoddy Ray.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Quitaque, TX (city, FIPS 60176)
      Location: 34.36744 N, 101.05487 W
      Population (1990): 513 (256 housing units)
      Area: 1.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 79255

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   QDOS
  
      The Sinclair {QL}'s proprietary {operating
      system}.   The origin of the name is uncertain (a weak pun on
      kudos, perhaps, as {Unix} was on {Multics}).   There was
      another OS around from the birth of personal computers called
      Q.D.O.S. - Quick And Dirty Operating System.   QDOS might also
      stand for QL Data/Disk/Drive/Device Operating System.
  
      QDOS did the usual OS sorts of things, as well as
      multitasking.   It was unusual in several ways.   It treated all
      devices (serial ports, mouse ports, screen, {microdrive},
      {disk drive}, keyboard, etc.) uniformly, so you could print a
      text file direct to disk or save a binary to the screen for
      example.
  
      Also logical channels could be assigned to particular physical
      devices.   Output directed to a channel would go to the
      appropriate in/output.   This also meant you could have many
      windows on screen (the QL booted up from internal ROMs with 3
      windows - command line, output and program listing) all
      independent to some extent.   Channels could be redirected
      without affecting the way the process sent or received the
      data.
  
      (1996-07-22)
  
  
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