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A number or letter put before a letter or quantity, known or unknown, to show how many times the latter is to be taken; as, 6x; bx; here 6 and b are coefficients of x.

The act of buying the whole quantity of any commodity. [R.] Bacon.

respiration, in which the interruptions are very even, three or four to each inspiration. Quain.

The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force. An antecedent argument of extreme cogency. J. H. Newman.

The quality of being cogitable; conceivableness.

The quality of being cognoscible. Cudworth.

The practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody. [Ireland] Spenser.

To acquire rapidly, as money; to make. Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day. Locke.

The state or quality of being cold.

The American quail or bobwhite. The name is also applied to other related species. See Bobwhite.

ng together two opposite rafters; -- also, called simply collar. -- Collar of brawn, the quantity of brawn bound up in one parcel. [Eng.] Johnson. -- Collar day, a day of great ceremony at the English court, when persons, who are dignitaries of honorary orders, wear the collars of those orders. -- To slip the collar…

Quality or state of being collective.

The state or quality of being colloidal.

The state or quality of, or the relationship involved in, being colonial.

The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance.

The state or quality of being columnar.

The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.

The quality of being combustible.

wink; to get the advantage of. [Colloq.] -- To come near or nigh, to approach in place or quality to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems to come near it." Sir W. Temple. -- To come of. (a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my mother came." Dryden. (b) To result or follow from. "This comes of…

The quality or state of being comely. Comeliness is a disposing fair Of things and actions in fit time and place. Sir J. Davies. Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit. Milton. Comeliness signifies something less forcible than beauty, less elegant than grace, and less light than prettiness. Johnson.…