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- English Word Quipus Definition of Quipu
- English Word Quirboilly Definition Leather softened by boiling so as to take any required shape. Upon drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor.
- English Word Quire Definition See Choir.
- English Word Quire Definition To sing in concert.
- English Word Quire Definition A collection of twenty-four sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold; one twentieth of a ream.
- English Word Quirister Definition A chorister. See Chorister.
- English Word Quiritation Definition A crying for help.
- English Word Quirite Definition One of the Quirites.
- English Word Quirites Definition Roman citizens.
- English Word Quirk Definition A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger.
- English Word Quirk Definition A fit or turn; a short paroxysm; a caprice.
- English Word Quirk Definition A smart retort; a quibble; a shallow conceit.
- English Word Quirk Definition An irregular air; as, light quirks of music.
- English Word Quirk Definition A piece of ground taken out of any regular ground plot or floor, so as to make a court, yard, etc.; -- sometimes written quink.
- English Word Quirk Definition A small channel, deeply recessed in proportion to its width, used to insulate and give relief to a convex rounded molding.
- English Word Quirked Definition Having, or formed with, a quirk or quirks.
- English Word Quirkish Definition Consisting of quirks; resembling a quirk.
- English Word Quirky Definition Full of quirks; tricky; as, a quirky lawyer.
- English Word Quirl Definition See Querl.
- English Word Quirpele Definition The Indian ferret.