queachy (2)

[Eng. queach, v.; -y.] Shaking, soft; yielding or giving way under the foot, as boggy or marshy ground. "Many of them fell into those deep bogs and queachy places."-Knolles: Hist. Turkes, p. 282. quean, *queane, *quen, *quene, *queene, s. [The same word as QUEEN, 8.] 1. A worthle woman; a slut, a hu y, a strum pet. 2. In the eighteenth century in England, and still in Scotland, used for a young or unmarried woman, without any idea of disrespect or contempt. "Here's to the flaunting extravagant quean." Sheridan: School for Scandal , iii. 3. quēaş-1-lý, adv. [Eng. queasy ; -ly.] In a queasy or squeamish manner; with squeamishne , squamishly. quēaş-i-ne , s . [Eng. queasy ; -ne .] The quality or state of being queasy or squeamish; squeamishne , qualmishne , nausea. quēaş-ỹ, *quais-y, *quays-y, *queaz-ie, *quey-sy, a . [Norweg. kveis sickne after a debauch. ( Skeat .)] I. Literally : 1. Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; qualmish, squeamish. 2. Causing or apt to cause nausea or squeam ishne . II. Figuratively : 1. Fastidious, nice, squeamish. 2. Requiring to be handled delicately; delicate. ticklish. *quēaz-en, v . t. [QUEASY.] To make qucasy: to sicken. (Nashe: Lenten Stuffe .) Quě běc', s . [See def.] Geog.: A city and also a province in Canada. Quebec-oak, s . Bot.: Quercus alba . [QUERCUS.] Quebec-marmot, s . Zool.: Arctomys monax, the Woodchuck (q. v.). que-bra-chō, s. [Sp.] Bot.: Asp i do sperm a quebracho , a Chilian apocynaceous tree; its bark is used as a febrifuge and in lung or bronchial diseases. It is called also white quebracho , to distinguish it from the red guebracho , a Mexican tree ( Loxopterygium lorentzii ). The bark of the latter is said to have similar properties. quěb-rith, s. [O. Fr., quebrit , quibrith , Arabic kibrit .] Alchemy: An old name for Sulphur.