querquedule

[QUERQUEDULA.) A book name for the genus Querquedula. *quer-ry, s . [Fr. écuyer.] A groom, an equerry (q. v.). *quer-u-lā-tion, s. [Lat. querulus querulous (q. v.).] Complaint. "Will not their mournings, menaces, querulations stir your hearts?"-Adams: Works, i. 340. *quer-u-len-tial (ti as sh), a. [QUERULOUS.] Querulous, querimonious; apt to complain. "Walpole has by nature a propensity, and by constitution a plea, for being captious and querulential ."- Cum berland: Memoirs , i. 22.