quaidt

or pp. An artificial contracted form of quailed, past participle of quaill. Spenser. quaigh, quaich (kwach), n. [Also quegh, queigh, quech, quoich, queych, queff; [Scotch.] She filled a small wooden quaigh from an earthen pitcher. Scott , Pirate, vi. Nor lacked they, while they sat at dine, The music, nor the tale, Nor goblets of the blood-red wine, Nor mantling quaighs of ale. Scott, Thomas the Rhymer, iii. The girded quoich they brimmed for him. Prof. Blackie , Lays of Highlands and Islands, p. 171. quaill (kwal), v . [Early mod. E. and dial. also queal ; quelen (pret. qual ), cwelan (pret. cwæl , pp. cwolen ), die (also in comp. a-cwelan, die utterly), = OS. quelan , die, = MD. quelen = MLG. quelen , suffer pain, pine, = OHG. quelan , quelen , chelen , MHG. queln , die, G. quä len , suffer pain; cf. AS.cwalu , destruction, ME. quale , murrain (see qualel ), and AS. cwellan , cause to die, kill, quell: see quell , which is the causative form of quail , and cf. qualm , from the same source.] I. in trans. 1t. To begin to die; decline; fade; wither. For as the world wore on, and waxed old, So virtue quail'd , and vice began to grow. Tancred and Gismunda, ii. 3. The quailing and withering of all things. IMG:content-1422.png:[blocks in formation] quail Couetousne e quayleth gentlene e. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 91. When somer toke in hand the winter to a ail, With force of might, and vertue great, his stormy blasts to quail . Surrey , Complaint of a Lover. The sword of the spirit Satham quailes , And to attaine the conquest never failes. Times ' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 145. Am not I here to take thy part? Then what has quail'd thy stubborn heart? S. Butler, Hudibras, I. iii. 204. Resist the thunder quails thee! - crouch-rebuff Shall be thy recompense! Words worth, Eccles. Sonnets, i. 39.