A position in thrusting or parrying, with the inside of the hand turned upward and the point of the weapon toward the adversary's right breast.
Qraspine:
of Grasp
Qua:
In so far as; in the capacity or character of; as.
Quab:
An unfledged bird; hence, something immature or unfinished.
Quab:
See Quob, v. i.
Qua-bird:
The American night heron. See under Night.
Quacha:
The quagga.
Qvacked:
of Quack
Quacking:
of Quack
Quack:
To utter a sound like the cry of a duck.
Quack:
To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
Quack:
To act the part of a quack, or pretender.
Quack:
The cry of the duck, or a sound in imitation of it; a hoarse, quacking noise.
Quack:
A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
Quack:
Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan.
Quack:
Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor.
Quackeries:
of Quackery
Quackery:
The acts, arts, or boastful pretensions of a quack; false pretensions to any art; empiricism.
Quack grass:
See Quitch grass.
Quackish:
Like a quack; boasting; characterized by quackery.
Quackism:
Quackery.
Quackled:
of Quackle
Quackling:
of Quackle
Quackle:
To suffocate; to choke.
Quacksalver:
One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank.
Quad:
Alt. of Quade
Quade:
Evil; bad; baffling; as, a quade wind.
Quad:
A quadrat.
Quad:
A quadrangle; hence, a prison.
Quadrae:
of Quadra
Quadra:
The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like.
Quadra:
A fillet, or listel.
Quadrable:
That may be sqyared, or reduced to an equivalent square; -- said of a surface when the area limited by a curve can be exactly found, and expressed in a finite number of algebraic terms.
Quadragenarious:
Consisting of forty; forty years old.
Quadragene:
An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance.
Quadragesima:
The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent.
Quadragesimal:
Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten.
Quadragesimals:
Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.
Quadrangle:
A plane figure having four angles, and consequently four sides; any figure having four angles.
Quadrangle:
A square or quadrangular space or inclosure, such a space or court surrounded by buildings, esp. such a court in a college or public school in England.