Search the Dictionary

A kind of beer. Same as Quass.

The brown coati. See Coati.

Same as Squash.

A negro of the West Indies.

ce to; qualified; -- used as an adjective, or a prefix with a noun or an adjective; as, a quasi contract, an implied contract, an obligation which has arisen from some act, as if from a contract; a quasi corporation, a body that has some, but not all, of the peculiar attributes of a corporation; a quasi argument, that…

A corporation consisting of a person or body of persons invested with some of the qualities of an artificial person, though not expressly incorporated, esp. the official of certain municipal divisions such as counties, schools districts, and the towns of some States of the United States, certain church officials, as a…

The first Sunday after Easter; Low Sunday.

on rye or barley meal and letting it ferment, -- much used by the Russians. [written also quas.]

The act of shaking, or the state of being shaken. Gayton.

The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarubeæ, as Quassia amara, Picræna excelsa, and Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer.

The bitter principle of quassia, extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called quassite. [Written also quassiin, and quassine.]

To shake; to agitate. [Obs.] Harvey. -- Con`quas*sa"tion, n. [Obs.]

A variety of squash with small egg-shaped fruit.

See Muskrat. Musquash root (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant (Cicuta maculata), having a poisonous root. See Water hemlock.

A small, handsome trout (Salvelinus oquassa), found in some of the lakes in Maine; -- called also blueback trout.

A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.

, an unripe pod of pease. Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is a peascod. Shak.

One who, or that which, squashes.

The quality or state of being squashy, or soft.

Easily squashed; soft.