quasi trustee (kwa"sitruste)

In law, a person who reaps a benefit from a breach of trust, and so becomes answerable as a trustee. Wharton. quasje, n. See coati . qua 1t, v. A Middle English form of quash1 . qua 2t (kwas), n . Same as kva . With spiced Meades (wholsome but deer), As Meade Obarne and Mead Cherunk, And the base Qua e by Pesants drunk. Pimlyco or Runne Red Cap (1609), quoted in Gifford's Jon [son, VII. 241. qua at i on (kwa-sā'shon), n . [ qua a tio (n-), a shaking or beating, qua are , shake, shatter: see quash1 .] The act of shaking; concu ion; the state of being shaken. Continual contusions, threshing, and qua a tions . Gayton, Notes on Don Quixote, p. 68. qua ative (kwas'a-tiv), a. [ A French man's heart is more qua ative and subject to tremor than an English man's. Middle ton, Anything for a Quiet Life, iii. 2. Qua ia (kwash'iä), n. [NL. (Linnæus, 1763), named after Qua i or Coi i, a negro slave in Surinam, who used its bark as a remedy for fever. Qua i, Qua y, or Quashy was a common name of negroes.] 1. A genus of plants, of the order Sima rubaceæ and tribe Simarubeæ. IMG:content-1456.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors] Branch of Qua ia amara , with inflorescence. a , a flower; b, the fruit. tropical Africa; the other, Q. amara, is a tall and smooth tree of tropical America, with intensely bitter wood, bearing alternate pinnate leaves with a winged petiole, and having terminal racemes of large scarlet tubular flowers. 2. [ l. c.] A drug, also called bitter - wood, consisting of the wood of Picræna ( Qua ia ) ex cels a, and of two or three related trees; also, a medicinal preparation from these woods. The original tree was Qua ia amara, the Surinam qua ia. Its wood is still in use in France and Germany, but is largely superseded by that of the more abundant Picræna ex cels a, a tall tree, the bitter-ash of Jamaica and some smaller A substitute for is Simaruba amara, IMG:content-1457.png:[blocks in formation]