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Show QU QU 1. Speed; velocity; celerity What any invention hath in the ftrength of it motion, is abated in the flownefs of it ; and wha it hath in the extraordinary guicknefs of its motion muft be allowed for in the grea fire ,nquired unto it lki Joy, like a ray of the fun, refle€ts with greater ardour and guicknefs, when it rebounds upo South a man from the breaft of his friend 2. A&ivity ; brifknefs The beft choice is of an old phyfician and young lawyer; becaufe, where errors are fatal «ability of judgment and moderation are required but where advantages may be wrought upon, dili gence and guicknefs of wit & Wotton The guicknefs of the imagination is feen in th invention, the fertility in the fancy, and the ac 3. curacy in the expreflion D[J'({gn 3. Keen fenfibility Would not guicknefs of fenfation be an inconvepience to an animal that muft lie fill Locke 4. Sharpnefs; pungency prime - Still thew'd a guickzefs; and maturing tim "But mellows what w Dryden Ginger renders it brifk, and corre@s its wild‘nefs, and juice of corinths whereof a few drop tinge and add a pleafant guicknefs Mortimer ‘Qui‘cksanDp. 2. /. [guick and fand. Moving fand; unfolid ground What is Edward but a ruthlefs fea What Clarence, but a guickfand of deccit ? Shakefp Undergirdin th fhip an fhould fall into the guickfands fearin lef the they ftrak fuil and fo were driven Aétsy xxvii But when the veffel is on quickfands caft "The flowing tide does more the finking hafte. Dry Trajan, by the adoption of Nerva, ftems th tide to her relief, and like another Neptune fhove her off the quickfands Addifon I have marked out feveral of the fhoals an guickfands of life, in order to keep the unwary fro running upon them Addifon 7o Qui'cksET. w. a. [guic To plant with living plants and fer. In making or mending, as needeth thy ditch Get fet to guickfet it, learn cunningly which. Ti/ir A man may ditch and guickfer three poles a day whete the ditch is three foot wide and two foo decp Qui'ckseT. 2. /. [guick and fer. ing plant fet to grow Mertimer Liv "Ihe batful paftures fenc'd, and moft with quickfet mound Drayton Plant guickfers and tranfplant fruit-trees toward the decreafe Ewelyn's Kalendar Nine in ten of the quick[et hedges are ruined fo want of {kill Swift's Mifcellanies Quicksi'cuTED. adj. [guick and fight. Having a tharp fight No body will deem the quickfighted among them to have very enlarged views in cthicks. Locke No article of religion hath credibility enoug For them; and yet thefe fame cautious an guick i« 2 figfilfd gentleme ca fwallo opinion about percipient atoms dow thi Jighted. fottit Bentley RUICKSIGHTEDNESS n, J. [from guickSharpnefs of fight The ignorance that is in us no.more hinde s th knowledge that is in others, than the blindfess o a m le is an argument againtt the guickfighte n f o an eagle Quicksriver acke a, /- [quick and filver argentum wivum, Latin Ruickfilver, cailed mercury by the chymifts is Daturally fuid mineral, and the heavieft of al known.bodies next to gold, and i the more heav And fluid, as it js more pure 5 it is wholly volatil A:{Mhe fire, and may be driven up in vapour by eree of heat very Tittle greater than that of boilVor. I1 to 1000, and as it is the heavieft of all fluids, i is aifo the coldeft, and when heated the hotteft the ancients all efteemed guickfilver a poifon, no was it brought into internal ufe till about tw hundred and twenty years ago, which was firf occafioned by the fhepherds, who ventured to giv it their theep to kill worms, asd as they receive no hurt by it, it was foon concluded, that me might takeit fafely mines whe in time, the diggers in th they foun it crude fwallowe it i not to determine : my wor is to prove, that th common inducement to the belief of its quicfcence the teftimony of fenfe, is weak and frivalous Glanville QUIE'SCENT adj. [quiefcens, Lat. Reft ing; not being in motion; not movent lying at repofe Though the earth move, its motio be as infenfible as if it were guisfent muft need Glanwille The right fide, from whence the motio of th body beginneth, is the a&ive or moving fide bu the finifter is the weaker or more quiefcent fide Brown's Vulgar Errourse in it, are generally feized with paralytick diforders Sight takes in at a greater diftance and mor variety at once, comprehending alfo guicfent objeéls which hearing does not Holder If it be in fome part movent, and in fome part quiefeent, it muft neceds be a curve line, and fo n Hill Grew vaft quantities, in order to fell it privately, whe they had voided it by ftool: but the miners feldom follow their occupation above thiee or fou years, and the artificers, who have much dealin Mercury is very improperly called a metal, fo though it has weight and fimilarity of parts, it i by fire malleable, nor fixed i feems to conftitute a particular clafs of fofiils, an write to the dull fweets o rhime Ing water s it is the leaft tenacious of all bodies and ‘every fmaller drop may be again divided by th lighteft touch into a multitude of others. The fpecifick gravity of pure mercury is to water as 1402 neither diffolvabl Thy gen'rous fruits, though gatherd ere ‘thei QU is rather the mother or bafis of all metals, than metal itfelf: mercury is of "confiderable ufe i gilding, making looking-glaffes, in refining gold an variou othe mechanica operation befide medicine Charbers Cinnabar maketh a beautiful purple like unto red rofe 5 the beft was wont to be made in Libia o brimftone and guickfilver burnt Peacbam Pleafures are few; and fewer we enjoy Pleafure, like guick-filver, is bright and coy We firive to grafp it with our utmoft fkill Still it eludes us, and it glitters ftill If feiz'd atlaft, compute your mighty gains What is it, but rank poifon in your veins? Young QuicksI'LVERED. adj. [from guickfilver. Opverlaid with quickfilver Metal is more difficult to polith than glafs, an is afterwards very apt to be fpoiled by tarnifhing and refle€ts not fo much light as glafs guickfilverc over does: I would propound to ufe inftead of th metal a glafs ground concave on the forefide, an as much convex on the backfide, and quickfilvere over on the convex fide Neavton's Opticks QUI'DAM. n. /. [Lat. now ufed Somebody No For envy of fo many worthy guidams, whic catch at the garland which to you alone is due you will be per{uaded to pluck out of the hatefu darknefs thofe fo many excellent poems of yours which lie hid, and bring them forth to eternal light Spenfer Qui'ppany. n, /. [cydonium, cydoniarum Latin ; gquidden, German a quince. Marmalade ; confeétion of quinces mad with fugar Qur'pprT #. /. [corrupted fro libet, Latin ; or from gue dit A fubtilty word an equivocation guid French. A lo Why may not that be the fkull of a lawyer where be his guiddits now? his quillets ? his cafes and his tricks Shakefpeare Qur'oviTy. #. /. [guidditas, low Latin. 1. Effence; that which is a proper anfwe to the queftion, guid ¢/#? a {cholalic term He could reduce all things to aéts And knew their natures and abfiraéts Whetc entity.and guiddit The ghofts of defunét bodies fiy Hudibras 2. A trifling nicety; a cavil; a captiou queftion. Not ufed Mifnomer in our laws, and other guiddities, leave to the profefiors of law Camden's Remains QuIE'sCENCE . /. [from guie/co, Lat. Reft repofe Whethe th cart mov o reft, I undertak radius Preflion or motio cannot be propagate in fluid in right lines beyond an obftacle which fop part of the motion, but will bend and fpread ever way into the guicfcent medium, which lies beyon the obftacle Newton's Opticks QUI'ET. adj. [gquiet, French Latin. 1. Still ; free from difturbance quictys Breaking off the end for want of breath And fliding foft, as down to fleep her laid She ended all her woe in quiet death Stenfer This life is beft If guiet life is beft; fweeter to you That have a fharper known. ~ Shakefp. Cymbcline Juftly thou abhor'# That fon, who on the guicr Rate of ma Such trouble brought Milton 2. Peaceable five; mild no turbulent not offen Let it be in the ornament of a meek and quic fpirit I Peter 3. Still ; not in motion They laid wait for him, and were guict all th night 4. Smooth Fudges not ruffled Happy is your grace That can tranflate the ffubbornnefs of fortun Into fo guict and fo fweet a ftyle Shakefpeare QUI'ET 2. [quies, Latin. Reft re pofe ; tranquillity ; freedom from difturbance ; peace; fecurity; ftillnefs They came into Laifh unto a people that were a guict and fecure Judges, xviii. 27 The lan A dreadful guiet felt, and worfer fu Than arms, a fullen iaterval of war Dryden There fix'd their arms, and there renew'd thei name And there in guict rules Indulgent guier, pow'r ferene Dryden's ZEncis Mother of peace and joy and love 70 Qui'eT 1, T Hughes @, 4. [from the noun. calm; to lull5 to pacify; to pu to reft Th loweft degree of faith, that can guiet th foul of man cable is a firm conviction that Go is pla Forbes z. To fill Putting together the ideas of moving or guietin corporeal motion, joined to fubftance, we have th idea of an immaterial fpirit Laocke QuUI'ETER. 7. /. [from guier.] 'The perfon or thing that quiets Qur'eTism. 7. /. [from guiet. What is called by the poets apathy or difpaflion by the fcepticks indifturbance, by the Molinift guictifm, by common men peace of conftiente feems all to mean but great tranquillity of mind QUuI'ETLY. adv [from quict. Temple 1. Calmly ; without violent emotion Let no ma 31 for his owa poverty becom maY oppresipi |