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Butchery quality.

A bad quality or disposition in a disease; an incurable ulcer.

Quality of being calcareous.

Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc. [Eng.] The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company. Beck (Draper's Dict.…

The state of quality of being calm; quietness; tranquillity; self-repose. The gentle calmness of the flood. Denham. Hes calmness was the repose of conscious power. E. Everett.

Possessing the quality of producing heat; heating. Calorific rays, the invisible, heating rays which emanate from the sum, and burning and heated bodies.

The quality of being candid.

The quality of being canonical; canonicity. Bp. Burnet.

The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.

The quality of being musical. He chooses his language for its rich canorousness. Lowell.

The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability. A capability to take a thousand views of a subject. H. Taylor.

The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency.

To quality. [R.] The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.

The quality of being capacious, as of a vessel, a reservoir a bay, the mind, etc.

The quality of being capillary.

The quality or condition of being capillary.

Of first rate quality; excellent; as, a capital speech or song. [Colloq.]

The quality of being capital; preeminence. [R.]

A courting of favor or applause, by flattery or address; a captivating quality; an attraction. [Obs.] Without any of those dresses, or popular captations, which some men use in their speeches. Eikon Basilike.

An alloy of gold, silver, and copper, of which an inferior quality of jewerly is made.