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QUAAYKER GRACE.—Vide Shiver Grace.
QUAG, or QUAGGLE.—To shake.
QUAMES.—Qualms.
QUANDĀIRY.—A predicament; a fix.
QUANE.—The title of Her Majesty is so pronounced.
QUARREL.—A small diamond shaped pane of glass as fixed in cottage windows.
QUAT.—Used sometimes instead of "squat."
QUATCH.—To keep absolute silence as regards a certain subject, whether that subject may be mooted before one, or whether others may try to extract information respecting it.
QUEASY.—Rather sick.
QUEER-STRATE.—In a difficulty; in trouble.
QUICKS.—The young cuttings planted to form a quickset hedge.
QUID.—To suck vigorously.
QUILT.—To swallow a lump of something with very palpable distension of the throat.
To whip.
QUILTIN'.—A beating. It may have been observed that the number of words relative to corporal punishment is large, indicating that in by-gone days it was perhaps not usual "to spare the rod and spoil the child."