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A medusa, or jellyfish. [R.] The jellied quarl that flings At once a thousand streaming stings. J. R. Drake.

Discordant; contrary; -- opposed to consonant. "Absonant to nature." Quarles.

use obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud. If thou becloud the sunshine of thine eye. Quarles.

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

The dress; raiment. [Obs.] See Clothes. I'll ne'er distust my God for cloth and bread. Quarles.

ause delay to; to put off. [Obs.] He demands a fee, And then demurs me with a vain delay. Quarles.

To totter, as a child in walking. [Obs.] Quarles.

To excuse for nonappearance in court. "I 'll not essoin thee." Quarles.

To make happy; to felicitate. [Obs.] Quarles.

A flirt. [Obs.] Quarles.

To deal in small wares. [R.] To haberdash in earth's base ware. Quarles.

Of or pertaining to herbs. Quarles.

Niggardly; penurious. [Obs.] Quarles.

To mew; to molt. [Obs.] Quarles.

followed by off; as, to pension off a servant. One knighted Blackmore, and one pensioned Quarles. Pope.

Guilty of perjury; containing perjury. [Obs.] Quarles. B. Johnson.

ight's bashful empress, though she often wane, As oft repeats her darkness, primes again. Quarles .

s a high point of providence in a prince to cast an eye rather upon actions than persons. Quarles.

Full of rust; resembling rust; causing rust; rusty. "Rustful sloth." Quarles.

rnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe. Are we born to thrum caps or pick straw Quarles.