Emily Dickinson Lexicon

QUAR'REL, v.i. [Fr. quereller. See the noun.]

1. To dispute violently or with loud and angry words; to wrangle; to scold. How odious to see husband and wife quarrel!
2. To fight; to scuffle; to contend; to squabble; used of two persons or of a small number. It is never used of armies and navies in combat. Children and servants often quarrel about trifles. Tavern-hunters sometimes quarrel over their cups.
3. To fall into variance. Our people quarrel with obedience. Shak.
4. To find fault; to cavil. I will not quarrel with a slight mistake. Roscommon. Men at enmity with their God, quarreling with his attributes–quarreling with the Being that made them, and who is constantly doing them good. Eliph. Steele.
5. To disagree; to be at variance; not to be in accordance in form or essence. Some things arise of strange and quarr'ling kind, The forepart lion, and a snake behind. Cowley.