pyxveil (piksval)

Same as pyx - cloth. IMG:content-1398.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-1399.png:[graphic][subsumed][ocr errors] The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia 1. The seventeenth letter and thirteenth consonant in the English alphabet. It had a corresponding position in the early Greek and in the Latin alphabet, as also in the Pheni- cian, where it was the nineteenth character. Its value in Phenic i an was that of a deeper or more gut- tural k ; and a like distinction of two k's , le and more guttural ( kaf and qof ), is still made in the Semitic languages gen- erally. But in Greek and Latin there was no such dis- tinct i on to be maintained; hence the sign was abandoned in Greek (being retained only as an episemon, or sign of number, in its old place between and p, and called koppa); while in Latin, on the other hand, it was kept, qw- , kw- , ku- , cu- , cw- , cw- = OS. kw- = quacha (kwächa), n . OFries. kw- = D. kw- = OHG. kw- , cw- , MHG. kw- , qu- , G. qu- = Icel. kv- = Sw. kv- , qu- = Dan. kv- = Goth. kw- (by Germans often written kv- , also rendered by q -or qu- ; the Goth. character being single, namely, u-the resemblance to the Roman u being accidental). (3) quw- , quh- , wh- , hw- , hw- = OS. OFries. hw -D.w-G.w-Icel. Sw. Dan.hv-, etc.: see quachi, n. Same as coati . quachil, n. [Native name.] A large pocket- gopher, Geomys hispid us (formerly Saccophorus quachil). It inhabits Central America and some parts of Mexico, and is larger than any of the United States species, being nearly or quite a foot long, with the tail the pelage is harsh and lusterle , of a uniform dull choco- wh-. (4) Of various origin, ult. due to c-ork-late-brown, merely paler or grayer below; the upper in- or ch- .] 1. An initial and medial sequence in words of Latin origin, as in quarrell , quarrel2 , quadrant, query , etc.-2. An initial sequence in some words of Anglo-Saxon (or other Teu- Pheni- cian. nally cw- , but altered in the Middle English period to qu- in conformity with the spelling of French and Latin words with qu- (see 1). It oc- curs in quaill , quake , qualm , queen , quell , quick , etc. It does not occur medially except in com- position.-3. An initial sequence in some Mid- dle English or modern dialectal (Scotch) var i- ants of words regularly spelled with wh- , as in qual , qwaylle , quhal , for whale ; quhilk for whilk (which), quhyp for whip , etc.-4. An initial se- quence of various origin other than the above, as in quaint , qua ia , quay , quince , quip , quirel , quire2 , quiver2 , quoin , quoit , etc. See the ety- mology of these words. qu. An abbreviation: ( a ) of queen , quarterly ; ( b ) of question , or quære , query. are a few com common words (as queen , queer , quench , quick , quoth ) in which qu has been substituted for the equivalent Anglo-Saxon cw or Teutonic kw , and a number of other words (Asiatic, African, American, etc.) in which qu rep- resents a like combination. In the transliteration of some qualt, pron. An old Scotch form of who . Oriental alphabets (Arabic, Persian, Turkish, etc.), q repre- sents the more guttural form of k . See qu . 2. As a medieval Roman numeral, 500.-3. An abbreviation: ( a ) [ l . c.] of quadrans (a farthing); ( b ) [ l . c.] of query ; (c) [ l . c.] of ques- tion ; (d) of queen ; (e) [l. c.] in a ship's log- book, of squalls ; (f) in Rom . lit. and in scrip- tions, of Quintus . - 4t. A half-farthing: same as cue2 , 2 ( a ) . Rather pray there be no fall of money, for thou wilt then Lyly , Mother Bombie, iv. 2. ( Nares .) go for a q . To mind one's p's and q's. See mind1 . qabbalah, n. See cabala . Q. B. An abbreviation of Queen's Bench . Q. C. An abbreviation: (a) of Queen's Coun- cil or Queen's Counsel ; (b) of Queen's College . Q. d., or q. d. An abbreviation of the Latin phrase quasi dicat , as if he should say. IMG:content-1401.png:[blocks in formation] Qua herd ever a warr auntur, That he that noght hadd bot of him Agayn him suld becum sua grim? MS . Cott . Vespas . (A), iii. f. 4. ( Hall i well .) qua2 (kwä), adv . [L. qua (often written qud ), as far as, so far as, as, at or in which place, in what manner, how, orig. abl. fem. of qui , who, which: see who .] As being; so far as. I know what that man's mind, qua mind, is, well enough. M. Arnold , Friendship's Garland, vi. The first thing to notice about this position is, that the Darwin i an, qua Darwin i an, has nothing to do with it. Nature, XXXVII. 291. qua3 (kwä), n. A jail; quod. gon, 1798. [Thieves' jargon.] quab1, quob (kwob), v . i . [Var. of the earlier quap , quop : see quap1 , quop1 , and cf. quave .] To shake; tremble; quiver; throb; flutter. [Appar. a var. of quad2 , quod2 .] Tufts's Glo ary of Thieves' Jar- After whan the storme ys al ago, Yet wol the watir quappe a day or two. But, zealous sir, what say to a touch at praier? How quops the spirit? In what garb or ayre? O, my eyes grow dim! my heart quabs , and my back acheth. Dryden , Limber ham, iii. 2. quab1, quob (kwob), n. [ quab1 , v. Cf. quave- mire . A bog or quagmire. Hall i well . quab2t (kwob), n . [Early mod. E. quabbe ; quabbe , quappe , D. kwab , kwabbe = OLG. quappa , MLG. quappe , LG. quabbe , quappe , an eel-pout, G. quabbe , quappe , an eel-pout, tad- pole, Sw. quabba = Dan. krab be , a burbot; so called from its active motions; from the verb represented by quabl , quap1 . Cf. quap2.] 1. A fish, the eel-pout or miller's-thumb. Minsheu. -2. A gudgeon. Also quabling and quap . quack1 (kwak), v. i. [ quakken (?), queken = MD. quacken , queken , croak, quack, cry as a frog, goose, or quail, later kwakken , kwaaken , D. kwaken , croak, as a frog, = MLG. quaken = G. quacken , quaken , quack, croak, babble, quäcken , quäken , cry, scream, = Icel. kvaka = Sw. quäka = Dan. kvakke , croak, quack; cf. L. coaxare , croak, Gr. κοάξ , a quacking (see coax at i on ); all imitative words. Hence freq. quacklel , and ult. quail3 .] 1. To utter a harsh, flat, croaking sound or cry, as a goose or duck; croak; now, usually, to cry as a duck. He toke a gose fast by the nek, And the goose thoo begann to quek . Rel. Antiq ., i. 4. ( Hall i well .) There were thirteen ducks, and they all quacked very movingly. R. D. Black more , Lorna Doone, x. 2. To make an outcry: said of persons. [Prov. Eng.] He slew the captain where he stood, The rest they did quack an' roar. He speketh thurgh the nose, As he were on the quakke or on the pose. Chaucer , Reeve's Tale, 1. 232. 2. The cry of a duck; a quacking. He gave me a look from his one little eye, a loud quack to second it. Seek out for plants with signatures, To quack of universal cures. quab3t (kwob), n. squab1, v.] 1. A squab, or other unfledged young bird. See squab2.-2. Something im- mature or crude. A trifle of mine own brain,... a scholar's fancy, A quab -'tis nothing else - a very quab . Ford, Lover's Melancholy, iii. 3. qua-bird (kwäʼbėrd), n . [ qua (imitative, like equiv. quark , quawk ) + bird i .] The American night-heron, Nyctiardea grise a nævia . partly an abbr. of quacksalver , q. v.] I. n. 1. An impudent and fraudulent pretender to med- ical skill; a mountebank; a knavish practi- tioner of medicine. Quacks in their Bills, and Poets in the Titles of their Plays, do not more di appoint us than Gallants with their Promises. Wycherley, Love in a Wood, iii. A potent quack , long versed in human ills, Who first insults the victim whom he kills. Crabbe, Works, I. 14. IMG:content-1402.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1403.jpg:[blocks in formation] quacksalving (kwak's al-ving), a . [Ppr. of quadrad (kwod'rad), n. [ L.quattuor ( quadr- ), * quack salve , v., implied in quack salve , n., and E. four , + -ad1.] Same as tetrad. quacksalver .] Quackish; humbugging. Tut, man, any quacksalving terms will serve for this pur. Middle ton , Mad World, ii. 6. pose.