quiz2 (kwiz)

[Perhaps a var. of whiz.] A toy, formerly popular, consisting of a small cyl inder or wheel grooved to receive a string, by which the wheel is made to wind and unwind itself. Also called bandalore. Moore says that his earliest verses were composed on the use of the toy "called in French a bandalore, and in N. and Q., 7th ser., III. 67. In med., a number IMG:content-1518.png:[blocks in formation] on the march only, and in battle carried their arrows se Mongol Quiver. a , separate arrow. cured by a strap, usually with the addition of a small socket in which the points only were covered. But Mosco did vs more service then we expected, for, having shot away his quiver of Arrowes, he ran to the Boat for more. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, I. 186. Now in her hand a slender spear she bore, Now a light quiver on her shoulders wore. Add is on, tr. of Ovid's Meta morph., ii. quivered (kwiv'erd), a . [ quiver2 , n ., + -ed2 .] 1. Furnished with a quiver; wearing a quiver. The quiver'd Arabs' vagrant clan, that waits Insidious some rich caravan. J. Philips , Cereal i a. Him, thus retreating, Artemis upbraids, The quiver'd huntre of the sylvan shades. Pope , Iliad, xxi. 546. 2. Held or covered in or as if in a quiver: said of a feathered arrow, or, as in the quotation, of a quill. From him whose quills stand quiver'd at his ear To him who notches sticks at Westminster. Pope, Imit. of Horace, I. i. 83.