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(kwěst'yun.) [From L. quæstio, from quæro, I seek.] The application of torture to prisoners under criminal accusation. From the earliest times it was perceived that disclosures made under the influence of torture could not be relied on; yet the practice was very prevalent in Europe, until so late as the reign of George III. in England, and the revolution of 1789 in France. Quiberon, (ke'ba-rawn(g,) a seaport of France, dept. Morbihan, on a bay of same name, 24 m. from L'Orient. Pop. 4,000. Quick-lime. (Chem.) Any calcareous substance divested of its carbonic acid; as chalk, limestone, oyster shells, ., calcined. Quick's ilver. (Min.) See MERCURY. [s. 748]