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ce, a catalogue in general. On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field. Spenser. It is quite startling, on going over the beadroll of English worthies, to find how few are directly represented in the male line. Quart. Rev.

e motions; the pulsation or throbbing produced by the vibrating together of two tones not quite in unison. See Beat, v. i., 8.

urse or order of; in a state of deviation from; out of. [You] have done enough To put him quite beside his patience. Shak.

One who blasphemes. And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God Pope.

Quite new; bright as if fresh from the forge.

To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling; to brutalize. Any man not quite brutified and void of sense. Barrow.

use of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind. Now abideth faith hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. 1 Cor. xiii. 13. When pride cometh, then cometh shame; but with the lowly is wisdom. Prov. xi. 2. All but. See under All.…

Entirely; quite; as, chock home; chock aft.

Quite full; choke-full.

Full to the brim; quite full; chock-full.

Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely. "Domestic broils clean overblown." Shak. "Clean contrary." Milton. All the people were passed clean over Jordan. Josh. iii. 17.

Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off.

Quite certain. [Colloq.] I throught myself cocksure of the horse which he readily promised me. Pope.

To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.

it singly, and is carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest, has a meaning quite different. Atterbury.

To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite. Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you. Shak.

A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun. Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. J. Philips.

To make return for; to requite; to repay. [Obs.] three thousand ducats due unto the Jew, We freely cope your courteous pains withal. Shak.

To burst or open in chinks; to break, with or without quite separating into parts. By misfortune it cracked in the coling. Boyle. The mirror cracked from side to side. Tennyson.

A strong habitual desire or fancy; a crotchet. It was quite a craze with him [Burns] to have his Jean dressed genteelly. Prof. Wilson.