He had those qualities of horsemanship, dancing, and fencing which
accompany a good breeding.
Clarendon.
5. Superior birth or station; high rank; elevated character. "Persons
of quality." Bacon.
Quality binding, a kind of worsted tape used in Scotland for binding
carpets, and the like. -- The quality, those of high rank or station,
as distinguished from the masses, or common people; the nobility; the
gentry.
I shall appear at the masquerade dressed up in my feathers, that
the quality may see how pretty they will look in their traveling
habits.
Addison.
Syn. -- Property; attribute; nature; peculiarity; character; sort;
rank; disposition; temper.
Qualm (?), n. [AS. cwealm death, slaughter, pestilence, akin to OS. &
OHG. qualm. See Quail to cower.] 1. Sickness; disease; pestilence;
death. [Obs.]
thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve [dead].
Chaucer.
2. A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony. " Qualms
of heartsick agony." Milton.