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Quelquechose
n.
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A trifle; a kickshaw.
Queme
v. t. & i.
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To please.
Quemeful
a.
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Kindly; merciful.
Quenched
imp. & p. p.
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of Quench
Quenching
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Quench
Quench
v. t.
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To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle; to quench thirst, love, hate, etc.
Quench
v. t.
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To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering.
Quench
v. i.
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To become extinguished; to go out; to become calm or cool.
Quenchable
a.
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Capable of being quenched.
Quencher
n.
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One who, or that which, quenches.
Quenchless
a.
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Incapable of being quenched; inextinguishable; as, quenchless fire or fury.
Quenelle
n.
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A kind of delicate forcemeat, commonly poached and used as a dish by itself or for garnishing.
Quenouille training
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A method of training trees or shrubs in the shape of a cone or distaff by tying down the branches and pruning.
Quercitannic
a.
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Pertaining to, or designating, a tannic acid found in oak bark and extracted as a yellowish brown amorphous substance.
Quercite
n.
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A white crystalline substance, C6H7(OH)5, found in acorns, the fruit of the oak (Quercus). It has a sweet taste, and is regarded as a pentacid alcohol.
Quercitin
n.
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A yellow crystalline substance, occurring quite widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, as is apple-tree bark, horse-chestnut leaves, etc., but originally obtained by the decomposition of quercitrin. Called also meletin.
Quercitrin
n.
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A glucoside extracted from the bark of the oak (Quercus) as a bitter citron-yellow crystalline substance, used as a pigment and called quercitron.
Quercitron
n.
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The yellow inner bark of the Quercus tinctoria, the American black oak, yellow oak, dyer's oak, or quercitron oak, a large forest tree growing from Maine to eastern Texas.
Quercitron
n.
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Quercitrin, used as a pigment. See Quercitrin.
Quercus
n.
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A genus of trees constituted by the oak. See Oak.
Querele
n.
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A complaint to a court. See Audita Querela.
Querent
n.
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A complainant; a plaintiff.
Querent
n.
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An inquirer.
Quermonious
a.
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Complaining; querulous; apt to complain.
Querimony
n.
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A complaint or complaining.
Querist
n.
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One who inquires, or asks questions.
Querken
v. t.
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To stifle or choke.
Querl
v. t.
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To twirl; to turn or wind round; to coil; as, to querl a cord, thread, or rope.
Querl
n.
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A coil; a twirl; as, the qwerl of hair on the fore leg of a blooded horse.
Quern
n.
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A mill for grinding grain, the upper stone of which was turned by hand; -- used before the invention of windmills and watermills.