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To procure; to get. I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin. Sir W. Scot.

erly, an elliptical expression for, put or suppose the case to be. Put case that the soul after departure from the body may live. Bp. Hall. -- To put about (Naut.), to turn, or change the course of, as a ship. -- To put away. (a) To renounce; to discard; to expel. (b) To divorce. -- To put back. (a) To push or thrust…

tem (Astron.), the commonly received system of astronomy, first taught by Pythagoras, and afterward revived by Copernicus, whence it is also called the Copernican system. -- Pythagorean letter. See Y.

To speculate after the manner of Pythagoras.

hi, in honor of Apollo, the conqueror of the dragon Python, at first once in eight years, afterward once in four.

The art of predicting events after the manner of the priestess of Apollo at Delphi; equivocal prophesying.

A game played by four persons with forty cards, being the remainder of an ordinary pack after the tens, nines, and eights are discarded. Hoyle.

urth of semibreve; a crochet. -- Quarter pieces (Naut.), several pieces of timber at the after- part of the quarter gallery, near the taffrail. Totten. -- Quarter point. (Naut.) See Quarter, n., 1 (n). -- Quarter railing, or Quarter rails (Naut.), narrow molded planks reaching from the top of the stern to the gangwa…

The first Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.

The act of seeking, 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 makes it his business to seek after relics and carry them about for sale.

A seeker; a pursuer. [Obs.] "Hot questrists after him." Shak.

rifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil. Quibbles have no place in the search after truth. I. Watts.

uilled porcupine." Shak. Quilled suture (Surg.), a variety of stitch in which the threads after being passed deeply through the edges of a wound are secured about two quills or bodies of similar shape, in order to produce a suitable degree of pressure.

Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring every fifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever. -- n. (Med.)

The fifteenth day after a feast day, including both in the reckoning. [Written also quinzain.]

In a rabbinical manner; after the manner of the rabbins.

iant heat. -- Radiant heat, proceeding in right lines, or directly from the heated body, after the manner of light, in distinction from heat conducted or carried by intervening media. -- Radiant point. (Astron.) See Radiant, n., 3.

The subject of eager desire; that which is sought after, or prosecuted, with unreasonable or excessive passion; as, to be all the rage.

To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.