quail
— Noun
– English
~ small gallinaceous game birds
quail
— Noun
– English
~ flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised
quail brush
— Noun
– English
~ spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico
quail bush
— Noun
– English
~ spiny shrub with silvery-scurfy foliage of alkaline plains of southwestern United States and Mexico
quail at
— Verb
– English
~ anticipate with dread or anxiety
quail
— Verb
– English
~ draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf"
quaint
— Adjective
– English
~ very strange or unusual; odd or even incongruous in character or appearance; "the head terminating in the quaint duck bill which gives the animal its vernacular name"- Bill Beatty; "came forth a quaint and fearful sight"- Sir Walter Scott; "a quaint sense of humor"
quaint
— Adjective
– English
~ attractively old-fashioned (but not necessarily authentic); "houses with quaint thatched roofs"; "a vaulted roof supporting old-time chimney pots"
quaint
— Adjective
– English
~ strange in an interesting or pleasing way; "quaint dialect words"; "quaint streets of New Orleans, that most foreign of American cities"
quaintly
— Adverb
– English
~ in a quaint old-fashioned manner; "the room was quaintly furnished"
quaintly
— Adverb
– English
~ in a strange but not unpleasant manner; "the old lady expressed herself somewhat quaintly"
quaintness
— Noun
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~ strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned; "some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness"
quaintness
— Noun
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~ the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned; "she liked the old cottage; its quaintness was appealing"
quake
— Noun
– English
~ shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity
quake
— Verb
– English
~ shake with fast, tremulous movements; "His nostrils palpitated"
quake
— Verb
– English
~ shake with seismic vibrations; "The earth was quaking"
quaker
— Noun
– English
~ a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)