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Show QU altet - nately: as Say 7o Queck Stella, whatis love, whofe fatal pow' Robs virtue of content, and youth of joy What nymph or goddefs in a lucklefs hou Difclos'd to light the mifchief-making boy Mrs. Mulfo 1 bave writ my poem in guatrains or ftanzas o four in alternate rhyme, becaufe I have ever judge them of greater dignity for the found and number Dryden than any other verfe in ufe Z0 Qua'VER. @w. z. [cpavan, Saxon. 1. To fhake the voice; to fpeak or fin with a tremulous voice Mifo fitting on the ground with her knees up and her hands upon her knees, tuning her voic wich many a guawvering cough, thus difcourfed Sidney The divifion and guawering, which pleafe f much in mufick, have an agreement with th . glittering of light playing upon a wave Bacon Now fportive yout Carol incondite rhythms with fuiting notes Philips And guaver unharmonious We fhall hear her guavering them half a minut after us, to fome {prightly airs of the opera. Addif 2 T tremble A membrane to vibrate ftretched like the head of a drum is to receive the impulfe of the found, and to vibrat or guawer according to its reciprocal motions. Ray If the eye and the finger remain quiet, thef ¢olours vanifh in a fecon minut of time bu i the finger be moved with a guawering motion, the . appear again Newton's Opticks Quay n. f [quai French. key an artificial bank to the fea or river, o which goods are conveniently unladen Que'acHy. adj. [I know not whenc derived ; perhaps originally guacky quaggy, or guafby.] Unfolid; unfound boggy Notin ufe The boggy mears and gueachy fens below. Drayt Goodwin's gueachy fand Drayton Quean 7 /. [cpean cow; poncpen Saxon a barre in the laws of Canute a ftrumpet. A worthlefs woman nerally a ftrumpet ge As fit as the nail to his hole, ot as a fcoldin ucan to a wrangling knave Shakefpeare This well they underftand like cunning guears And hide theirnaftinefs behind the {cenes. Dryden Such is that fprinkling, which fome carelefs guear ‘lirts on you from her mop Saift Que‘asingss. . f. [from queafy. Th ficknefs of a naufeated ftomach QUE'ASY, adj. [Of uncertain etymo logy. 1. Sick with naufea He, gueafy with Bis infolence, alread Will their good thoughts call from him Shake/p Whethera rotten ftate and hope of gain Or to difufe me from the guedfy pai Of being belov'd and loving Out. puth me firft z. Faftidious ; {fqueamith Donne nor have gueaf refolutions been harboured in their fucceffors eve fince Brown's Vulgar Errours Men's ftomachs are genevally fo gueafy in thef cafes, that it is not fafe to overload them Government of the Tongue Without queftion Their confcicnce was too gueafy of digeftion, Dryd 3. Caufing navfeoufnefs pain ; perhap not in ufe T fhrink to complain to fho Hail fon of the moft A wor ou:entcr at altars, without fo much-as guecking QuEEN [cpen 2. / wife, the wife of a king. 1. The wife of a king M 70 QUEME Which and no or bad origina fuppofe a quer ftrange God that he will inflame thy hear 3. To allay thirft Every draught to him, that has quenched hi thirft, is but a further quenching of nature, a provifion for rheum and difeafes, a drowning of the Particu fpirits Odd Sab 4. To deftroy When death's form appears, fhe feareth no An utter quenching or extinguifhment Latin She would be glad to meet with fuchalot A ringdove ; a kind of wil Davict That fo fhe might all future ill prevent Covered with fkin and hair keeps it warm, be ing mnaturally very cold, and alfo to qrmtgb a diffipate the force of any ftroke, and retund th Ray edge of any weapon 7o QUELL. . a. [cpellan, Saxon.] T crufh; to fubdue: originally, to kill ‘What avail Valour or ftrength, though matchlefs, gue/l'd wit 7o QuencH cool and makes remifs the hand Of mightieft Milton's Paradife Eff Compaflion guell' His beft of man, and gave him up to tear A fpace; till firmer thoughts reftrain'd excefs @. n To cool; to gro Doft thou think, in tim e en , xo ru in le an nc gu no wil Sh Where folly now pofleffes? Shakefpeare's Cymbeite QuE'NCHABLE. adj. [from guench.] Ta e may be quenched Milton QuE'NCHER. 7. /. [from quench.] E‘_‘"n This guell'd her pride, but other doubts remain'd r; one that quenc hes heer guifit QUE'NCHLESS. adj. [from quench.] :q fg extinguifhable That once difdaining, the might be difdain'd. Dry He is the guardian of the publick quiet, appointed to reftrain violence, to guel feditions an tumults, and to prefesve that peace which preferve the world Atterbury Com%, bloody Clifford, rough N"‘?:'"""":%f 1 dave you 7o QueLr. . n. To die Spenfer QuerL. z. /. [from the verb.] Murder Not in ufe Shakefpeare's Macketh with this heavenly fire of devotion ; and when tho haft obtained it, beware that thou neither guench i by any wilful fin, or let it go out again for wanto Duty of Man ftirring it up and employing it larly; oddly Of our great quell g Befeec be a gueer fellow; and wa What cannot we put upo His fpungy followers, who fhall bear the guil But if all aim but this be levelld falfe, = The fuppofition of the lady's deat Will guench the wonder of her infamy. Shakefpeare every now and then knocked down by a conftable to fignalize his vivacity Spectator Skinner. pigeon Moxon's Mechan. Exerifes 2. To ftill any paffion or commotion; t reprefs any motion of the mind goo in the morning QuEer'rRNEss. n./. [from gueer. nefls; particularity Que'esT. n [ [from quefus your work is forged, do not guénch iti water will harden i Sidney QuEE'RLY. adv, [from gueer. [com Adrefsc or hearth to cool of itfelf ; for the guenchin of i Mortimer he woul 1 water to cool it, but throw it down upon the floo The winter gueening is good for the table becauf D'flil'i Whe An apple He never went to bed till tw And zeal, which burntit, only warms theland Mortimer Blufhing at fight of Phebus' pride QUEER. adj. [Of this word th 1s not known: a correfponden a gueer man to be one who ha to his name in a lift.] Odd original ; particular being fuffer'd, rivers cannot quench, Shap You have alvéady guench'd fedition's brand) 7./. A {pecies of apple 2./ 2 caufe it entreth better Bacon's Natural Hy]fi Subdu'd in fire the ftubborn metal lies One draws and blows reciprocating air Others to guench the hiffing mafs prepare. Dy;'y'?p Or like the frefh gucen-apple's fide QuEE'NING @. 2, [cpeman,saxo'n'] T: own virtue ; and the water forgat his own 91('3,,‘:&, nature Wildom, xix Milk guencheth wild-fire better than water, b Of your own ftate take care : this dream of mine Being now awake, I'll gueer it no inch farther But milk my ewes and weep Shakefpeare good cyder apple mixed with others Her cheeks with kindly claret fpread Aurora like new out of bed o Dipr The fire had power in the water, forgettin To play the queen is of the fummer kind A little fire is quickly trodden out to gueen it. Shakefpeare's Henry VIII queen-appl Q!U‘flous', confpire What hgpe Pto quench, where each thing bioi,vs th re o This is the way to kindle, not to qdancb.srs‘ilflg . A threepence bow'd would hire me Th pleafe. An old word. Skimge, = 7o QUENCH. «. a 1. To extinguifh fire Since ftream, -air, fand, mine eyes and g That gzeen Elizabeth lived fixty-nine, and reigne fprty-five years, means no more than that the duration of ber exiftence was equal to fixty-nine, an the duration of her government to forty -five annua Locke revolutions of the fun Have I a quee Pal by my fellow rulers of the world Have I refus'd their blood to mix with yaurs And raife new kings from fo obfcure a race? Dry QUEEN-APPLE Reyat mind tranfporg Or City's quelguechofesy let not repmt° co?" dom Old asX am a From country grafs to comfitures of cop 2. A woman who is fovereign of a king v. n Miltor's Paradif He was lap In a moft curious mantle, wrought by the han Shakefpearc's Cymbeline Of his gueen mother 70 Queen e A QUE'LQUECHOSE. n., [Fr4.ca)t a kickiha Bacon a woman Saxon 9 dlf],‘on ;_‘;z_wl!er of Satan, on thy glorious‘ao'rk e "The lads of Sparta were accuftomed to be whippe Which all fubdues The humility of Gregory the great would no 2dmit the ftile of bifhop, but the ambition o made no {cruple thereof v. n Que'Lirr . [fro that crufhes or fubdyes pain I, with your two helps, will fo pra&ife o Benedict, that, in defpight of his quick wit an his queafy ftomach, he fhall fall in love with Beatrice Shakefpeare Bonifac I haye one thing of a gueafy quettion Shak:fpeare's King Lear Which I muft at A flanza of four lines rhymin QU E QU guenchlefs fury to more ragé tea f:)x ki th an cnt jr‘ ‘to 'I'hc) judg?e o W C : ‘-b qu{ o on th h' ni bu He fills | QuE'RELE re//e Fl'. 7. /- [querela A complain A circumduion abtains not in caufes of 4p. bu 1 "3 A\ M | \LI‘& ¢ o{ |