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Show perfo If th in quails, that men, by counterfelting this yoic his inmocenc accufed maket with a guail pipe, cafily drew the cocks into thei appear, the accufer is put to death, and out of hi goods the innocent perfon is guadruply recom Enquire; feek; QU.A'RE. [Latin. word put when any thing is recommended to enquiry Queere, if 'tis fteeped in the fame liquor, it ma not prevent the fly and grub. Mortymer's Hufbandry 7o QUAFF. «. 2. [Of this word the derivation is uncertain: Juuius, with hi ufual idlenefs of conjetture, derives i from the Greek, xwu@ilw in the Eolic Skiuner fro diale& ufed for xveSidew I go off, as go off, guoffy quoff, quaff comes from coeffer, Fr. to be drunk. Todrink ; to fwallow in large draughts A frefher gal Sweeping with fhadowy guft the field of corn While the guail clamours for his running mate Qua1LPIPE. % Jfo [quail and pipe. pipe with which fowlers allure quails T Yea, when both rocks and all things fhall difband Then thalt thou be my rock and towers ~ Herbert When Dido's ghoft appear'd It made this hardy warriour guail Wandering Prince of Troy 2. To fade; to decline T by th of th motio overpower fo.all had either bee fea o More quagmire The brain is of fuch a clammy confiftence that it can no more retain motion than a gragmire Glanwille's Scepfis Quarp. part. [Of this participle I kno not the verb, and believe it only pu by Sgenfer, who often took great liberties fo nienc quailed fo of his rhyme. th poo conve Crufhed de je&ed; deprefled Therewith his fturdy courage foon was guaid And all his fenfes were with a fudden dread difmaid Spenfer Quair #. f. [quaglia, Italian.] = A bir of game His quails eve Beat mine Shakefpeare's Ants and Cleopatra Hen birds have a peculiar fort of voice, whe they would call the male which is fo eminen Not ufed He fhewed him painted in a table plai The damned ghofts Three, with fi'ry courage, he affails Three, all as kings adorn'd in royal wife And each fucceflive after other guails Spenfor QUAINT. adj. [coint, French; comptus Latin. 1. Nice; fcrupuloufly, minutely, fuperfluoufly exaét; having petty elegance Each ear fucks up the words a true love fcattereth And plain fpeech oft, than guzint phrafe framed is Sidney You were glad to be employ'd To fhew how guaint an orator you are. Shake[peare He fpends fome pages about two fimilitudés one of mine, and another guainter of his own Stilling fleet Subtle ; artful Obfolete As clerkes been full fubtle and guaint, Chaucer What's the efficient caufe of a king ?: fucely quairt queftion ? « yet a queftion that ‘has bee moved Hslyday 3. Neat pretty ; exact But for a fine, guaint, gracefu fafhion, yours is worth ten on't and ‘excellen Shakefpeare Her mother hath intended That, guaint in greén, fhe fhall be loofe enrob' With ribbands pendent, flaring *bout her head Shake[peare I never fawa better fathion'd 'gown More guaint, more pleafing, nor more cornmendable Shakefpeard 4. Subtly excogitated ; finefpun U'lk fpeak of frays Like a fine bragging youth, and tell guaint lies How honourable Jadies fought my love Which I denying they fell fick and died He his fabrick of the heay'n 1. irregu With fuch fair fight him Guyon £ -].' Till at the _izut, all breathlefs, Wzary :Il\ddf:ain Him fpying, with frefh onfet he affiil'q And kindling new his courage, feeming qt:ain Setuck him fo hugely, that through great congt He made him ftoop Sfi;j!" 6. Affe@ed; foppith. This is true idea of the word, which Swiflo{t'ee(:, not to have well underftood r To this we owe . thofe monftrous produfi ong which under the name of trips, fpies, amufemcn s and other.conceited appellations, have OVer-run yg an wit coul fay thof quaint ropperie were wholly abfent from graver fubjects Quar'Nriy adv Swift [from quaint. 1. Nicely; exaétly; with petty elegance W e was old Sherewood's hair more quaintl curl'd Or Nature's cradle more enchas'd and purlid Bensforfir 2. Artfully Breathe his faults fo guaintly That they fcem the taints of liberty The flath and outbreak of a fiery mind 3. Ingenicufl wit fuccefs the true fenfe Shakef This is no As my Buxom With gentle finger froak'd her milky care; . I guaintly ftole a kifs G n. /. -[fro Nicety ; petty elegance QualNTNESS guaint There is-a certain majefty ‘in fimplicity, whic is far above all the guaintnefs of wit 7o Quake Pope @. n [cpacan, Saxon. 1. To thake with cold or fear; to tremble Doru thre behind a tree, where ‘h Pamel ftood' guaking like the partridge on which the ha Sidnep is ready to feize Shakefpeare thou wilt guake for this ])HM‘{/A 2 lon's Paradf y 5. Quaing is, in Spenfer flég dePf ed. qr-al v b v I beli ry licentious irreon Milton's Paradi If Cupid hath not fpent all his quiver in Venice, Still woad'ring whence fo many kings fhould rife Atre to be drained Tuffer Your hearts I'll famp ont with my horfe's heels And make a quagmire of your mingled brains, Sha with the dry, an T To drive him to defpair, and quite to guail fo marith by kind Poor Tom ! whom the foul fiend hath throug ford and whirlpool, o'er bog and guagmire Shak 'The wet particles might have eafily ever mingle @w. a. [cpellan, Saxon. crufh ; to quell; to deprefs; to fink; t Derbam The fen and guagmire pafs the guailing and withering of all thing recefs, and their reviving by the reaccef fun, the fap in trees precifely follows th Hakeavill of the fun 70 QuaiL fee Qua'cacy. adj. [from quagmire.] Boggy This word i foft; not {folid, Aizfaw fomewhere in Clariffa QUA'GMIRE. #. /. [that is, guakemire. A thaking marfh; a bog that tremble under the feet Cleaveland At this the errant's courage guails Ducks, having larger nerves that come into thei bills than geefe, guajfer and grope out their mea the moft Addifon And rivers ftir, thou can'ft not fhrink or guail' 'This feems to be the meaning out a late invention for improving th While rocks ftand Qua'FFER. 7. /. [from quaff. He wh quaffs Zo Qua'FrFER. w. #. [A low word, by chance. converfation He writes there is no guailing now Becaufe the king is certainly pofief Shakefpeare's Henry IV Of all our purpofes This may plant courage in their guailing breafts Shakefpeare For yet is hope of life and viétory After Solyman had with all his power in vai befieged Rhodes, his haughty courage began t quai/, fo that he was upon point to have raife Kunolles his ficge They eat, they drink, and in communion fwee Quaff immortality and joy. Milton's Paradife Loft fuppofe, forme furnifhe 7o QuaiL. w. n. [quelen, Dutch. 1. To languith; to fink into dejeftion Not in ufe to lofe {pirit. Spenfer crown'd ‘We may contrive this afternoon And guaff caroufes to our miftrefs' health, Shakefp Belthazzer, guaffing in the facred veflels of th temple, fees his fatal fentence writ by the finger Soutb of God Twelve days the gods their folemn revels keep And guaff with blamelefs Ethiops in the deep. Dry fow quailpipe And threw the fops all in the fexton's face, Shakefp I found the prince With fuch a deep demeanor in great forrow That tyranny, which never guafft but blood ‘Would, by beholding him, have wathd his knif Shakefpeare's Henry 1V "With gentle eye-drops On flow'rs repos'd, and with rich flow'ret To drink luxurioudly wit conclude guafft off the mufcadel w. z of wil dit His laceiter at thelr guain opinion w d Hereafter larity L homfon He calls for wine; a health, quoth he, as i H' ad been abroad caroufing to his mate o Quarr Ray on the Creation {nares Savift penfed After a ftorm Qu QU QU Stakeft Hath left to their difputes, perhaps to mov Do fuch bufinefs as the better day. Shakefpeare's Hamlet Would grake to look on Who honours not his father Henry the fifth, that made all France to guake Shake he his weapon at us, and pafs b Shakefp The mountains guake at him, and the hill melt, and the earth is burnt at his prefence. Nabuniy 1o 5 Son of man eat thy bread with quaking, an drink thy water, with trembling and carf:fulnffs-r Exekiely xiis 13 Ot of eigh uakin pow'r G heig ftood, in amaze guakin Th calls honou wher figh no dar the In field The very noife of war their fouls does wound They guake but hearing their own trumpees foun'- 25 To fhake Next Smedle Dyydem net to be folid or firm. divd ; flow circles dimpled o'e The guaking mud, that clos'd and op d mo mOre Pape u t t UAKE. #. / der; a tremulous agitation As the earth may fometimes fhake For winds fhut up will caufe a quake So often jealpufy and fea Stol'n to mine heart, caufe tremblings thete Suckling Jaris, Lat. QuA'KING-GRASS. 7. /- [#h A herb A,',Z/'rwoflb o t c f l u [ / QJAleCA"rm y i a g fro ' ‘ . ' L Thatgwhich make ' " l n k m fit for any thi i p t o t i It i b i n i f f t and virtue be k v |
