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Same as Quadrate.

A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.

Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto.

Quarterage. [Obs.]

A form of silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2), occurring in hexagonal crystals, which are commonly colorless and transparent, but sometimes also yellow, brown, purple, green, and of other colors; also in cryptocrystalline massive forms varying in color and degree of transparency, being sometimes opaque.…

Consisting chiefly of quartz; containing quartz.

Massive quartz occurring as a rock; a metamorphosed sandstone; -- called also quartz rock.

A form of crystal common with quartz, consisting of two six- sided pyramids, base to base.

Containing, or resembling, quartz; partaking of the nature or qualities of quartz.

Quarzose.

Quartzose.

A kind of beer. Same as Quass.

The brown coati. See Coati.

Same as Squash.

A negro of the West Indies.

As if; as though; as it were; in a manner sense or degree; having some resemblance to; qualified; -- used as an adjective, or a prefix with a noun or an adjective; as, a quasi contract, an implied contract, an obligation which has arisen from some act, as if from a contract; a quasi corporation, a body that has some, b…

A corporation consisting of a person or body of persons invested with some of the qualities of an artificial person, though not expressly incorporated, esp. the official of certain municipal divisions such as counties, schools districts, and the towns of some States of the United States, certain church officials, as a…

The first Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.

on rye or barley meal and letting it ferment, -- much used by the Russians. [written also quas.]

The act of shaking, or the state of being shaken. Gayton.