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QUER'ELE, n. [L. querela; Fr. querelle.]

A complaint to a court. [Not in use. See Audita querela.] Ayliffe.

QUE'RENT, n. [L. querens, queror, to complain.]

The complainant; the plaintif. [Not in use.]

QUE'RENT, n. [L. quætrens, quæro, to inquire.]

An inquirer. [Not much used.] Aubrey.

QUERIK,

See QUIRK.

QUER-I-MO'NI-OUS, a. [L. querimonia, complaint, from queror.]

Complaining; querulous; apt to complain.

QUER-I-MO'NI-OUS-LY, adv.

With complaint; querulously.

QUER-I-MO'NI-OUS-NESS, n.

Disposition to complain; a complaining temper.

QUE'RIST, n. [from L quæro, to inquire.]

One who inquires or asks questions. Swift.

QUERK'EN-ED, a.

Choked. [Illegitimate and obsolete.]

QUERL, v.t. [G. querlen.]

To twirl; to turn or wind round; to coil; as, to querl a cord, thread or rope. [This is a legitimate English word, in common use in New England. It may be a dialectical variation of whirl, Dan. hvirvler, and twirl.]

QUERN, n. [Sax. cwyrn, cweorn; Goth. quairn; D. kweern; Dan. qvern; Sw. qvarn. Qu. W. cwyrn, a quick motion, a whirl.]

A hand-mill for grinding grain; a mill, the stone of which was turned by hand, used before the invention of windmills and watermills. Shak.

QUERP'O, n. [Sp. cuerpo, the body, L. corpus; Sp. en cuerpo de camisa, half dressed, having on a shirt only.]

A waistcoat or garment close to the body. Dryden.

QUER'QUE-DULE, n. [L. querquedula.]

An aquatic fowl, a species of teal of the genus Anas. Encyc.

QUER'RY, n.

A groom. [See Equerry.]

QUER'U-LOUS, a. [L. querulus, from queror, to complain. See Quarrel.]

  1. Complaining, or habitually complaining; disposed to murmur; as, a querulous man or people. Hooker.
  2. Expressing complaint; as, a querulous tone of voice.

QUER'U-LOUS-LY, adv.

In a complaining manner. Young.

QUER'U-LOUS-NESS, n.

Disposition to complain, or the habit or practice of murmuring.

QUE'RY, n. [from L. quære, imperative of quæro; perhaps Ch. and Heb. {foreign} to seek, to class=Section2> search, to inquire; {foreign} id.; Ar. {foreign} karau:, to follow, to seek. Class Gr, No. 51, 53, 55. The sense is to press on, to follow, to urge.]

A question; an inquiry to be answered or resolved. I will conclude by proposing some queries. Newton.

QUE'RY, v.i.

To ask a question or questions. Three Cambridge sophs Each prompt to query, answer and debate. Pope

QUE'RY, v.t.

  1. To seek; to inquire; as, query the sum or amount; query the motive or the fact.
  2. To examine by questions. Gayton.
  3. To doubt of.

QUEST, n. [Fr. quête, for queste; L. quæro, quæstus. As the letter r is rarely changed into s, perhaps the L. quæsivi, quæstus, may be from the root of quæso, W. ceisiaw, to seek, to endeavor, cais, effort. See Class Gs, No. 35.]

  1. The act of seeking; search; as, to rove in quest of game; to go in quest of a lost child; in quest of property, &c. Milton. Addison.
  2. Inquest; a jury. [Not used.] Shak.
  3. Searchers, collectively. [Not used.] Shak.
  4. Inquiry; examination. [Not used.] Shak.
  5. Request; desire; solicitation. Gad not abroad, at every quest and call Of an untrain'd hope or passion. Herbert.

QUEST, v.i.

To go in search. [Not used.]

QUEST, v.t.

To search or seek for. Herbert.

QUEST'ANT, n. [supra.]

A seeker. [Not used.] Shak.

QUES-TION, n. ques'chun.

  1. {Fr. and Sp. question; L. quæstio. See Quest.]
  2. The act of asking; an interrogatory; as, to examine by question and answer.
  3. That which is asked; something proposed which is to be solved by answer. What is the question?
  4. Inquiry; disquisition; discussion. It is to be put to question, whether it is lawful for Christian princes to make an invasive war, simply for the propagation of the faith. Bacon.
  5. Dispute or subject of debate. There arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews, about purifying. John iii.
  6. Doubt; controversy; dispute. The story is true beyond all question. This does not bring their truth in question. Locke.
  7. Trial; examination; judicial trial or inquiry. Of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question. Acts xxiii. xxiv.
  8. Examination by torture. Blackstone. Aylife.
  9. Endeavor; effort; act of seeking. [Not in use.] Shak.
  10. In logic, a proposition stated by way of interrogation. In question, in debate; in the course of examination or discussion; as, the matter or point in question.