quallet

A Middle English form of whale1. qualm (kwäm), n. [Also dial.calm; A you sand slain, and not of qualme ystorve. Chaucer , Knight's Tale, 1. 1156. 2. A sudden attack of illne ; a turn of faintne or suffering; a throe or throb of pain. Some sudden qualm hath struck me at the heart, And dimm'd mine eyes. Shak ., 2 Hen. VI., i. 1. 54. 3. Especially, a sudden fit or seizure of sickne at the stomach; a sensation of nausea. Falstaff . How now, Mistre Doll! Hoste . Sick of a calm . Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 4. 40. For who without a qualm hath ever look'd On holy garbage, though by Homer cook'd? Roscommon, Translated Verse. 4. A scruple or twinge of conscience; compunction; uneasine . Some seek, when queasy conscience has its qualms , To lull the painful malady with alms. 4892 its fruit. The latter, called native peach, is said to be almost the only Australian fruit relished by Europe ans. The kernel of the seed (quandang-nut) as well as the pulp is edible. Also quandong and quantong. quandary (kwon ́da-ri or kwon-dā'ri), n.; pl. quandaries (-riz). [Origin unknown; perhaps a dial. corruption (simulating a word of L. origin with suffix -ary ) of dial. wandreth, evil, plight, peril, adversity, difficulty: see wandreth. The change of initial w- to wh- (hw-) occurs in some dialectal forms, e. g. in whant, a frequently heard pron. of want (as, I don't whant it). Medial w often suffers dialectal change to qu (as in squete for sweet ), and instances of the change of wh- to qu- are numerous (Se. qua, quha, for who, quhar for where, etc.). The notion that quandary comes from F. qu'en dirai - je, 'what shall I say of it,' is absurd.] A state of difficulty or perplexity; a state of uncertainty, hesitation, or puzzlement; a pickle; a predica ment. IMG:content-1433.png:[blocks in formation] quandary (kwon ́da-ri or kwon-dā'ri), v.; pret. and pp. quandaried, ppr. quandary ing. [ quantity on the ground that Every A is every B can be true only if A and B are one individual. The doctrine of the quantification of the predicate , set forth in 1827 by Mr. George Bentham, and again set forth under a numerical form by Profe or De Morgan, is a doctrine supplementary to that of Aristotle. H. Spencer , Study of Sociol., p. 223. quantify (kwon'ti-fi), v. t.; pret. and pp. quan tified, ppr. quantifying. [ quantitative (kwon'ti-ta-tiv), a. [= F. quan titatif = Pr. quantitatiu = Sp. cuantitativo = Pg. It. quantitativo, sure ment. If the thing may be greater or le ,... then quant i tative notions enter, and the science must be Mathematical in nature. Jevons, Pol. Econ., Int., p. 8. Perhaps the best quantitative verses in our language... are to be found in Mother Goose, composed by nurses wholly by ear and beating time as they danced the baby on their knee. Lowell , Study Windows, p. 266. The logic of probability is related to ordinary syllogistic as the quantitative to the qualitative branch of the same science. C. S. Peirce , Theory of Probable Inference. bring into a state of uncertainty or difficulty. Methinks I am quandary'd, like one going with a party to discover the enemy's camp, but had lost his guide upon the mountains. Otway, Soldier's Fortune, iii. ty; hesitate. He quandaries whether to go forward to God, or, with Demas, to turn back to the world. Rev. T. Adams , Works, I. 505. ( Davies .) quandy (kwanʼdi), n.; pl. quandies (-diz). [Origin obscure.] A duck, the oldwife or south southerly, Hareld a glacial is. See cut under Hareld a. [Ma achusetts.] quannet (kwan'et), n. [Origin obscure.] 1. A kind of file, used especially for scraping zine plates for the proce denominated anastatic printing. Ure.- 2. A flat file set in a frame like a plane, used in the manufacture of combs. Tortoise-shell handles. are smoothed with a float or single cut file, technically known as a quannet. O. Byrne, Artisan's Handbook, p. 410.