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A complaint to a court. See Audita Querela. [Obs.] Ayliffe.

A complainant; a plaintiff.

A complaint or complaining. [Obs.] E. Hall.

Expressing complaint; fretful; whining; as, a querulous tone of voice.

To plaint in small cylindrical ridges, called quillings; as, to quill a ruffle. His cravat seemed quilled into a ruff. Goldsmith.

To make, or put in, an answer, as to a plaintiff's surrejoinder. The plaintiff may answer the rejoinder by a surrejoinder; on which the defendant. Blackstone.

The giving of evidence on the part of a plaintiff to destroy the effect of evidence introduced by the defendant in the same suit.

The answer of a defendant in matter of fact to a plaintiff's surrejoinder.

denote a case where a set-off pleaded by the defendant is met by a set-off pleaded by the plaintiff.

A cross demand; an action brought by the defendant against the plaintiff before the same judge. Burrill. Bouvier.

to deduct; as, where a landlord recouped the rent of premises from damages awarded to the plaintiff for eviction.

To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit; as, the plaintiff has recovered in his suit.

To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.

The defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication.

ue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur. But Lachesis thereat gan to repine. Spenser. What if the head, the eye, or ear repined To serve mere engines to the ruling mind Pope.

to try the right to them in a suit at law, and, if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the property replevied.

The reply of the plaintiff, in matters of fact, to the defendant's plea.

Containing reproof; reprehensive; as, reprehensory complaint. Johnson.

. A new affliction strings a new cord in the heart, which responds to some new note of complaint within the wide scale of human woe. Buckminster. To every theme responds thy various lay. Broome.

The withdrawing, or open renunciation, of a suit in court by the plaintiff, by which he forever lost his right of action. Blackstone.