Quaint"ly (?), adv. In a quaint manner. Shak.
Quaint"ness, n. The quality of being quaint. Pope.
Quair (?), n. [See 3d Quire.] A quire; a book. [Obs.] "The king's
quhair." James I. (of Scotland).
Quake (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Quaked (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Quaking.]
[AS. cwacian; cf. G. quackeln. Cf. Quagmire.] 1. To be agitated with
quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold,
etc.; to shudder; to tremble. "Quaking for dread." Chaucer.
She stood quaking like the partridge on which the hawk is ready to
seize.
Sir P. Sidney.
2. To shake, vibrate, or quiver, either from not being solid, as soft,
wet land, or from violent convulsion of any kind; as, the earth quakes;
the mountains quake. " Over quaking bogs." Macaulay.
Quake, v. t. [Cf. AS. cweccan to move, shake. See Quake, v. t.] To
cause to quake. [Obs.] Shak.
Quake, n. A tremulous agitation; a quick vibratory movement; a shudder;
a quivering.
Quak"er (?), n. 1. One who quakes.
2. One of a religious sect founded by George Fox, of Leicestershire,
England, about 1650, -- the members of which call themselves Friends.
They were called Quakers, originally, in derision. See Friend, n., 4.
Fox's teaching was primarily a preaching of repentance . . . The
trembling among the listening crowd caused or confirmed the name of
Quakers given to the body; men and women sometimes fell down and
lay struggling as if for life.
Encyc. Brit.
3. (Zoˆl.) (a) The nankeen bird. (b) The sooty albatross. (c) Any
grasshopper or locust of the genus (Edipoda; -- so called from the
quaking noise made during flight.
Quaker buttons. (Bot.) See Nux vomica. -- Quaker gun, a dummy cannon
made of wood or other material; -- so called because the sect of
Friends, or Quakers, hold to the doctrine, of nonresistance. -- Quaker
ladies (Bot.), a low American biennial plant (Houstonia cÊrulea), with
pretty four- lobed corollas which are pale blue with a yellowish
center; -- also called bluets, and little innocents.
Quak"er*ess, n. A woman who is a member of the Society of Friends.
Quak"er*ish, a. Like or pertaining to a Quaker; Quakerlike.
Quak"er*ism (?), n. The peculiar character, manners, tenets, etc., of
the Quakers.
Quak"er*like (?), a. Like a Quaker.
Quak"er*ly, a. Resembling Quakers; Quakerlike; Quakerish. Macaulay.
Quak"er*y (?), n. Quakerism. [Obs.] Hallywell.
Quake"tail` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) A wagtail.
Quak"i*ness (?), n. The state of being quaky; liability to quake.
Quak"ing, a. & n. from Quake, v.
Quaking aspen (Bot.), an American species of poplar (Populus
tremuloides), the leaves of which tremble in the lightest breeze. It
much resembles the European aspen. See Aspen. -- Quaking bog, a bog of
forming peat so saturated with water that it shakes when trodden upon.
-- Quaking grass. (Bot.) (a) One of several grasses of the genus Briza,
having slender-stalked and pendulous ovate spikelets, which quake and
rattle in the wind. Briza maxima is the large quaking grass; B. media
and B. minor are the smaller kinds. (b) Rattlesnake grass (Glyceria
Canadensis).
Quak"ing*ly (?), adv. In a quaking manner; fearfully. Sir P. Sidney.
Quak"y (?), a. Shaky, or tremulous; quaking.
Qual"i*fi`a*ble (?), a. Capable of being qualified; abatable;
modifiable. Barrow.
Qual`i*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. qualification. See Qualify.] 1. The
act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified.
2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement,
which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which
enables him to sustian any character with success; an enabling quality
or circumstance; requisite capacity or possession.
There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom,
actual or presumptive.
Burke.
3. The act of limiting, or the state of being limited; that which
qualifies by limiting; modification; restriction; hence, abatement;
diminution; as, to use words without any qualification.
Qual"i*fi*ca*tive (?), n. That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts;
a qualifying term or statement.
How many qualificatives, correctives, and restrictives he inserteth
in this relation.
Fuller.
Qual"i*fi*ca`tor (?), n. [LL.] (R. C. Ch.) An officer whose business it
is to examine and prepare causes for trial in the ecclesiastical
courts.
Qual"i*fied (?), a. 1. Fitted by accomplishments or endowments.