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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,707 words match “QUE”

UNIQUE a. 2 definitions

or equal; unmatched; unequaled; unparalleled; single in kind or excellence; sole. -- U*nique"ly, adv. -- U*nique"ness, n.

To divest of the rank or authority of queen. Shak.

UNQUESTIONABLE a. 2 definitions

Not questionable; as, an unquestionable title.

UNQUESTIONED a. 3 definitions

Not called in question; not doubted.

USQUEBAUGH n. 2 definitions

; whisky. The Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh. Sir W. Scott.

VANILOQUENCE n.

Vain or foolish talk. [Obs.]

One who has charge of cattle, horses, etc.; a herdsman. [Southwestern U. S.]

VAUQUELINITE n.

Chromate of copper and lead, of various shades of green.

VERD ANTIQUE n. 2 definitions

A green porphyry called oriental verd antique.

Speaking truth; truthful. [Obs.]

VIOLAQUERCITRIN n.

line glucoside obtained from the pansy (Viola tricolor), and decomposing into glucose and quercitrin.

In the style of Zola (see Zolaism).

Characterizing that kind of reasoning which deduces consequences from definitions formed, or principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of a posteriori.

A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofdüne off t…

To stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for. Dearly I abide that boast so vain. Milton.

e abolition of customs, etc. Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old. South. Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate. Burke.

of mind. "Reflecting on the little absences and distractions of mankind." Addison. To conquer that abstraction which is called absence. Landor.

ABSINTHE; ABSINTH n.

A strong spirituous liqueur made from wormwood and brandy or alcohol.

set free, or release, as from some obligation, debt, or responsibility, or from the consequences of guilt or such ties as it would be sin or guilt to violate; to pronounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifax…

tract name" to all names which are the result of abstraction and generalization, and consequently to all general names, instead of confining it to the names of attributes. J. S. Mill.