quodlibet (kwodlibet)

[= F. quolibet, a joke, pun; These are your quodlibets , but no learning, brother. Fletcher ( and another ), Elder Brother, ii. 1. He who, reading on the Heart (When all his Quodlibets of Art Could not expound its Pulse and Heat), Swore he had never felt it beat. Prior, Alma, iii. 4921 Small wedges, called quoins , are inserted and driven forward by a mallet and a shooting-stick, so that they gradually exert increasing pre ure upon the type. Encyc . Brit ., XXIII. 700. (c) In gem - cutting, any one of the four facets on the crown of a brilliant; also, any one of the four facets on the pavilion or base. These facets divide each portion of the brilliant into four parts. Also called lozenge. See cut under brilliant. (d) Naut., a wedge placed beneath a cask when stowed on shipboard, to prevent it from rolling sired In gun . , a wooden wedge used to hold a gun at a elevation.- Cantick-quoin. Same as canting - coin .