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The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc. The glory of our Troy this day doth lie On his fair worth and single chivalry. Shak.

The quality of being of particular value or worth; nicely; excellence.

Quality; brand; as, silk of the first chop.

uid measure formerly used in France and Great Britain, varying from half a pint to a wine quart.

The beginning and the ending. [Obs.] Quarles.

The quality of being chuffy.

The state or quality of being a churchman; attachment to the church.

The quantity of butter made at one operation.

g liquids. It consists of a piston moving in a tube in which is contained the liquid, the quantity expelled being indicated by the graduation upon the piston rod.

ed cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker than, quinine; -- sometimes called also cinchonidia.

ained from storax and oil of cinnamon, now made from certain benzene derivatives in large quantities, and used for the artificial production of indigo.

figure, bounded by a single curve line called its circumference, every part of which is equally distant from a point within it, called the center.

The quality or state of being circular; a circular form.

Vigilance un guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. [Travel] forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.

The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail. "I will endeavor to describe with sufficient circumstantiality." De Quincey.

Having the condition or qualities of a citizen, or of citizens; as, a citizen soldiery.

A yellow, pellucid variety of quartz.

sk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the sea clam or hen clam (Spisula solidissima), and other species of the United States. The name is said to have been given originally to the Tridacna gigas, a huge East Indian bivalve. You…

Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft and sticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a cold perspiration.

Qualyty of tone.