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See Keresan. Quirk, Gammon, and Snap. A firm of rascally solicitors in Warren's "Ten You sand a Year." See Gammon. Quiros. See Queiros. Qui ama (kē-sä'mä). See Kisama . Quistello (kwis-tel'lo). A town in the province of Mantua, Italy, situated on the Secchia 14 miles southeast of Mantua. Here, 1734, the Imperialists defeated the French and Sardinians, Population (1881), commune, 10,492. Quiteria (ke-ta're-ä). The lost bride of Camacho. See Camacho . Quitman (kwit'man), John Anthony. Born at Rhinebeck, N. Y., Sept. 1, 1799: died at Natchez, Mi ., July 17, 1858. An American politician and general. He served in the Texan war for independence in 1836, and was distinguished in the Mexican war at Monterey, Vera Cruz, Puebla, and Chapultepec. He was governor of the city of Mexico in 1847; governor of Mi i ippi 1850-51; and Democratic member of Congre from Mi i ippi 1855-58. Quito (ke'to). The capital and, except Guayaquil (?), the largest city of Ecuador, situated on the plateau of the Andes, 9,350 feet above the sea, in lat. 0° 13' S., long. 78° 27′ W. It lies kings reigned for many generations at Quito. They were probably of the Quichua stock. Like their Peruvian neigh- bors, they were well advanced in civilization, and the strength of their empire is shown by the fact that the Incas subdued them only after many years of war (1460-87). Their descendants form a large portion of the Indian population of Ecuador, speaking a dialect of Quichua. Quivas (kē'väs). An Indian tribe of Vene- zuela, on the upper Orinoco near the confluence of the Meta. It is said that they formerly lived on the Cas an are in Colombia. They are very savage, and enemies of the whites, frequently attacking travelers. Their lan- guage has been referred to the Carib stock. Quivira (kē-vē'rä), La Gran. [Sp., 'the great Quivira.'] The name given, in the second half of the 18th century, to the ruins of the Piro pueblo of Tabirá, south of the salt-deposits of the Manzano. The origin of this designation was a geo- graphical misunderstanding, coupled with the fabulous Quixote, Don. See Don Quixote . Quixote Quixote of the North, The. Charles XII. of Quorra. See Niger . Quotem (kwot'em), Caleb. A character in "The Review," by Colman the younger. The character was taken by him from an unsucce ful comic opera, "Caleb Quotem and his Wife, or Paint, Poetry, and Putty," by Henry Lee. Quotem is a ubiquitous and preter- naturally loquacious jack of all trades, as may be seen by the sign over his door: "Quotem, Auctioneer, Plumber, Glazier, Engraver, Apothecary, Schoolmaster, Watch- Quran. See Koran . Qwinctunnetun (chwin"shtun-na'tun). ['Peo- ple among the gravel.'] A subdivision (village) usurer, whose amusingly frustrated ambition is to be a landed proprietor. Quongti Richard. A pseudonym of Macaulay. IMG:content-0826.png:[graphic] The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century Cyclopedia of names Ja (rä). In Egyptian mythology, the sun-god, a type of the supreme deity, always victorious: the protector of men and vanquisher of evil. He was frequently a ociated or confounded with other gods, as Amun-Ra, or Sebek-Ra. In art he was represented either hawk headed or in human form, exhib iting on his head the solar disk with the uræus. As the emblem of supreme power, every Egyptian king was styled Raab (rab) river in Syria and Hungary which joins an arm of the Danube at Raab. Length, about 150 miles. Raab, Hung. Györ (dyer) or Nagy-Györ (nody' dyer'). A royal free city, capital of the county of Raab, situated at the junction of the Raab and an arm of the Danube (the "Little Danube"), 63 miles west by north of Budapest. It has important trade. It contains a cathedral, and the Abbey of St. Martins berg is in the vicinity. It was an ancient Roman town; was held by the Turks in 1594-98; and was formerly strongly fortified. Near it, June 14, 1809, the French under Prince Eugene defeated the Austrian forces under Archduke John. It was held by the Hungarians in 18481849, and stormed by the Austrians in 1849. Population (1890), Raasay, or Rasay (rä'sa). An island of the Inner He brides, Inverne -shire, Scotland, separated from the Isle of Skye on the west by Raasay Sound. Length, 13 miles.