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124 words match “QUIP”

QUIP n. 3 definitions

A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a gibe. Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles. Milton. He was full of joke and jest, But all his merry quips are o'er. Tennyson.

used for arithmetical purposes, and to register important facts and events. [Written also quipo.] Tylor. The mysterious science of the quipus . . . supplied the Peruvians with the means of communicating their ideas to one another, and of transmitting them to future generations. Prescott.

Secreting water; -- applied to certain glands. Dunglison.

EQUIP v. 2 definitions

, munitions, rigging, etc.; -- said esp. of ships and of troops. Dryden. Gave orders for equipping a considerable fleet. Ludlow.

EQUIPAGE n. 3 definitions

y of troops, or a single soldier, including whatever is necessary for efficient service; equipments; accouterments; habiliments; attire. Did their exercises on horseback with noble equipage. Evelyn. First strip off all her equipage of Pride. Pope.

Furnished with equipage. Well dressed, well bred. Well equipaged, is ticket good enough. Cowper.

Comparable. [Obs. or R.]

To compare. [R.]

Equal-footed; having the pairs of feet equal.

EQUIPENDENCY n.

The act or condition of hanging in equipoise; not inclined or determined either way. South.

To weigh equally; to esteem alike. [Obs.]

EQUIPMENT n. 2 definitions

The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition. Burke. The equipment of the fleet was hastened by De Witt. Hume.

EQUIPOISE n. 2 definitions

-- said of moral, political, or social interests or forces. The means of preserving the equipoise and the tranquillity of the commonwealth. Burke. Our little lives are kept in equipoise By opposite attractions and desires. Longfellow.

EQUIPOLLENCE; EQUIPOLLENCY n. 2 definitions

Equality of power, force, signification, or application. Boyle.

EQUIPOLLENT a. 2 definitions

Having equal power or force; equivalent. Bacon.

EQUIPOLLENTLY adv.

With equal power. Barrow.

EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY n.

Equality of weight; equipoise.

EQUIPONDERANT a.

Being of the same weight. A column of air . . . equiponderant to a column of quicksilver. Locke.

EQUIPONDERATE v. 2 definitions

To make equal in weight; to counterbalance. "More than equiponderated the declension in that direction." De Quincey.