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a. [ L. aquosus watery, fr. aqua. See Aqua, Aqueous. ] Watery; aqueous. [ R. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. aquositas. ] The condition of being wet or watery; wateriness. Huxley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Very little water or aquosity is found in their belly. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To quote constantly or with great frequency. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Fair-spoken; flattering. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Cited before; quoted in a foregoing part of the treatise or essay. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ventriloquous. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. grandiloquus; grandis grand + loqui to apeak. ] Grandiloquent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Ethnol.) A linguistic group of warlike North American Indians, belonging to the same stock as the Algonquins, and including several tribes, among which were the Five Nations. They formerly occupied the region about Lakes Erie and Ontario, and the larger part of New York. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. inanis empty + loqui to speak. ] Given to talking inanely; loquacious; garrulous. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. iniquus; pref. in- not + aequus. See Equal. ] Iniquitous. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or designating, one of the principal linguistic stocks of the North American Indians. The territory of the northern Iroquoian tribes, of whom the Five Nations, or Iroquois proper, were the chief, extended from the shores of the St. Lawrence and of Lakes Huron, Ontario, and Erie south, through eastern Pennsylvania, to Maryland; that of the southern tribes, of whom the Cherokees were chief, formed part of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. All of the tribes were agricultural, and they were noted for large, communal houses, palisaded towns, and ability to organize, as well as for skill in war. -- n. An Indian of an Iroquoian tribe. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. sing. & pl. [ F. ] (Ethnol.) A powerful and warlike confederacy of Indian tribes, formerly inhabiting Central New York and constituting most of the Five Nations. Also, any Indian of the Iroquois tribes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. licour, licur, OF. licur, F. liqueur, fr. L. liquor, fr. liquere to be liquid. See Liquid, and cf. Liqueur. ] 1. Any liquid substance, as water, milk, blood, sap, juice, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically, alcoholic or spirituous fluid, either distilled or fermented, as brandy, wine, whisky, beer, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Pharm.) A solution of a medicinal substance in water; -- distinguished from tincture and aqua. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The U. S. Pharmacopoeia includes, in this class of preparations, all aqueous solutions without sugar, in which the substance acted on is wholly soluble in water, excluding those in which the dissolved matter is gaseous or very volatile, as in the aquæ or waters. U. S. Disp. [ 1913 Webster ]

Labarraque's liquor (Old Chem.), a solution of an alkaline hypochlorite, as sodium hypochlorite, used in bleaching and as a disinfectant. --
Liquor of flints, or
Liquor silicum (Old Chem.), soluble glass; -- so called because formerly made from powdered flints. See Soluble glass, under Glass. --
Liquor of Libavius. (Old Chem.) See Fuming liquor of Libavius, under Fuming. --
Liquor sanguinis (Physiol.), the blood plasma. --
Liquor thief, a tube for taking samples of liquor from a cask through the bung hole. --
To be in liquor, to be intoxicated. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Liquored p. pr. & vb. n. Liquoring. ] 1. To supply with liquor. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To grease. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Liquor fishermen's boots. Shak.

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n. See Licorice. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Lickerish. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Eagerly desirous. See Lickerish. [ Obs. ] Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. magniloquus. ] Magniloquent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An alcoholic drink made with malt. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Erroneous or inaccurate quotation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To quote erroneously or incorrectly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. multiloquus; multus much, many + loqui to speak. ] Speaking much; very talkative; loquacious. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Multi- + siliquious. ] (Bot.) Having many pods or seed vessels. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pectoriloquial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Pequot (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited Eastern Connecticut. [ Written also Pequods. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf. Quaver. ] [ Written also quop and quab. ] To throb; to quiver. [ Local & Vulgar ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ For quad, abbrev. of quadrangle. ] A quadrangle or court, as of a prison; hence, a prison. [ Slang ] “Flogged or whipped in quod.” T. Hughes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. Quoth; said. See Quoth. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

“Let be, ” quod he, “it shall not be.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To put in quod, or prison; to lock up; to jug. [ Slang ] Kipling.

n. pl. Herring taken and cured or smoked near Quoddy Head, Maine, or near the entrance of Passamaquoddy Bay. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., what you please. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A nice point; a subtilty; a debatable point. [ 1913 Webster ]

These are your quodlibets, but no learning. P. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) A medley improvised by several performers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who discusses any subject at pleasure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not restricted to a particular subject; discussed for curiosity or entertainment. -- Quod`li*bet"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. & v. t. See Coif. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Coiffure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Coil. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Coin, and cf. Coigne. ] 1. (Arch.) Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In stone, the quoins consist of blocks larger than those used in the rest of the building, and cut to dimension. In brickwork, quoins consist of groups or masses of brick laid together, and in a certain imitation of quoins of stone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A wedgelike piece of stone, wood, metal, or other material, used for various purposes; as: (a) (Masonry) To support and steady a stone. (b) (Gun.) To support the breech of a cannon. (c) (Print.) To wedge or lock up a form within a chase. (d) (Naut.) To prevent casks from rolling. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hollow quoin. See under Hollow. --
Quoin post (Canals), the post of a lock gate which abuts against the wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. coite; cf. OF. coitier to spur, press, (assumed) LL. coctare, fr. L. coquere, coctum, to cook, burn, vex, harass, E. cook, also W. coete&unr_; a quoit. ] 1. (a) A flattened ring-shaped piece of iron, to be pitched at a fixed object in play; hence, any heavy flat missile used for the same purpose, as a stone, piece of iron, etc. (b) pl. A game played with quoits. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The discus of the ancients. See Discus. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A cromlech. [ Prov. Eng. ] J. Morley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To throw quoits; to play at quoits. [ 1913 Webster ]

To quoit, to run, and steeds and chariots drive. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To throw; to pitch. [ Obs. or R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. of Quake. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A marsupial of Australia (Dasyurus macrurus), about the size of a cat. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L., formerly. ] Having been formerly; former; sometime. “This is the quondam king.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person dismissed or ejected from a position. [ R. ] “Make them quondams; . . . cast them out of their office.” Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of Quake. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. See Quob. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., of whom, gen. pl. of qui who, akin to E. who. See the Note below. ] Such a number of the officers or members of any body as is competent by law or constitution to transact business; as, a quorum of the House of Representatives; a constitutional quorum was not present. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term arose from the Latin words, Quorum aliquem vestrum . . . unum esse volumus (of whom we wish some one of you to be one), which were used in the commission formerly issued to justices of the peace in England, by which commission it was directed that no business of certain kinds should be done without the presence of one or more of certain justices specially designated. Justice of the peace and of the quorum designates a class of justices of the peace in some of the United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL., fr. L. quota (sc. pars), fr. quotus which or what in number, of what number, how many, fr. quot how many, akin to quis, qui, who: cf. It. quota a share. See Who. ] 1. A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division. “Quota of troops and money.” Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a share of effort required to be performed, or a share of resources required to be contributed to some common purpose. [ PJC ]