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A groom; an equerry. [Obs.]

Querulous. [R.]

Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to murmur; as, a querulous man or people. Enmity can hardly be more annoying that querulous, jealous, exacting fondness. Macaulay.

A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved. I shall conclude with proposing only some queries, in order to a . . . search to be made by others. Sir I. Newton.

, formerly Trogon resplendens), native of Southern Mexico and Central America. Called alsoquetzal, and golden trogon.

ng, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc. Upon an hard adventure yet in quest. Spenser. Cease your quest of love. Shak. There ended was his quest, there ceased his care. Milton.

One who undertakes a quest; a seeker. [Obs.] Shak.

One who seeks; a seeker. [Obs.]

The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

The state or condition of being questionable. Stallo.

Admitting of being questioned; inviting, or seeming to invite, inquiry. [R.] Thou com'st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. Shak.

The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious.

In a questionable manner.

Inquiring; asking questions; testing. "Questionary epistles." Pope.

One who asks questions; an inquirer. "Little time for idle questioners." Tennyson.

A questioner; an inquirer. [Obs.]

Unquestioning; incurious. [R.]

= Questionary, above.

One legally empowered to make quest of certain matters, esp. of abuses of weights and measures. Specifically:

One who lays informations, and encourages petty lawsuits. [Obs.] Bacon.