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atively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank. We lived most joyful, obtaining acquaintance with many of the city not of the meanest quality. Bacon

Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. [Obs.] thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve [dead]. Chaucer.

Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea or sickly languor; inclined to vomit. Shak. -- Qualm"ish*ly, adv. -- Qualm"ish*ness, n.

See Camass.

Formerly, a genus of plants including the cypress vine (Quamoclit vulgaris, now called Ipomoea Quamoclit). The genus is now merged in Ipomoea.

A state of difficulty or perplexity; doubt; uncertainty.

fruit of an Australian tree (Fusanus acuminatus) of the Sandalwood family; -- called also quandang.

The old squaw. [Local, U. S.]

A flat file having the handle at one side, so as to be used like a plane.

A punting pole with a broad flange near the end to prevent it from sinking into the mud; a setting pole.

riables, in general containing only positive integral powers of the variables, and called quadric, cubic, quartic, etc., according as it is of the second, third, fourth, fifth, or a higher degree. These are further called binary, ternary, quaternary, etc., according as they contain two, three, four, or more variables;…

Modification by a reference to quantity; the introduction of the element of quantity. The quantification of the predicate belongs in part to Sir William Hamilton; viz., in its extension to negative propositions. De Quincey.

To modify or qualify with respect to quantity; to fix or express the quantity of; to rate.

Relating to quantity. -- Quan"ti*ta*tive*ly, adv. Quantitative analysis (Chem.), analysis which determines the amount or quantity of each ingredient of a substance, by weight or by volume; -- contrasted with qualitative analysis.

Estimable according to quantity; quantitative. Sir K. Digby.

So as to be measurable by quantity; quantitatively.

sometimes, a considerable amount; a large portion, bulk, or sum; as, a medicine taken in quantities, that is, in large quantities. The quantity of extensive and curious information which he had picked up during many months of desultory, but not unprofitable, study. Macaulay. Quantity of estate (Law), its time of conti…

Valence. [Archaic]

Of or pertaining to quantivalence. [Archaic]

Quantity; amount. "Without authenticating . . . the quantum of the charges." Burke.