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The turnstone.

A quaking of the sea.

A demisemiquaver; a thirty-second note.

An aspect of the planets when distant from each other the half of a quadrant, or forty-five degrees, or one sign and a half. Hutton.

A note of half the duration of the quaver; -- now usually called a sixsteenth note.

Inclined to follow a leader; following; attendant. Trees uprooted left their place, Sequacious of the lyre. Dryden.

Quality of being sequacious.

Quality or state of being sequacious; sequaciousness. Bacon.

Same as Silique.

Fat; thick; plump; bulky. Nor the squab daughter nor the wife were nice. Betterton.

A young chicken before it is fully fledged. [Prov. Eng.]

To crush; to quash; to squash. [Colloq. or Slang, Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Thick; fat; heavy.

To contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.

One who squabbles; a contentious person; a brawler.

Short and thick; suqabbish.

A heron (Ardea comata) found in Asia, Northern Africa, and Southern Europe.

A small party of men assembled for drill, inspection, or other purposes.

Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a body of troops drawn up in a square. [R.] Those half-rounding quards Just met, and, closing, stood in squadron joined. Milton.

Formed into squadrons, or squares. [R.] Milton.