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Quassia
- noun - a bitter compound used as an insecticide and tonic and vermifuge; extracted from the wood and bark of trees of the genera Quassia and Picrasma
- handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark
Quassin
- - The bitter principle of quassia, extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly called quassite.
Quatuor
- - A quartet; -- applied chiefly to instrumental compositions.
Quavers
- noun - a musical note having the time value of an eighth of a whole note
- a tremulous sound
- give off unsteady sounds, alternating in amplitude or frequency
- sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below
Quayage
- noun - a fee charged for the use of a wharf or quay
Queachy
- - Yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy ground; shaking; moving.
Quechua
- noun - a community of South American Indians in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Incan Empire
- a member of a South American Indian people in Peru who were formerly the ruling class of the Inca empire
- the language of the Quechua which was spoken by the Incas
Queened
- verb - become a queen; "her pawn queened"
- promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess