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Quacking-cheat, c. a Duck.
Quack, an Empirick, or meer pretender to Physic.
Quaffing, Quaff off, carousing, to carouse.
Quag, Quagmire, marshy moorish Ground.
Quailing of the Stomack, beginning to be qualmish or uneasy.
Quail-pipe, a Woman’s Tongue; also a Device to take the Birds of that Name, which are fine food, the French esteem’d the best; tho’ both those and the English are of a Currish Nature, and will beat themselves against the Cage, sides and top, being with difficulty brought to Feed: Wheat is usually given them, but Hempseed is a great deal better.
Quaint, curious, neat; also strange.
Quaking cheat, c. a Calf or a Sheep.
Qualified, Accomplisht, Statesman, Soldier, Scholar.
Qualifications, Accomplishments that render any of them Compleat; also Conditions.
Qually-Wines, Turbulent and Foul.
Qualm, a Stomack-Fit; also Calmness, and the Cry of Ravens.
Qualmish, Crop-sick, queasy Stomackt.
Quarrel-picker, a Glazier; also a contentious Fellow, a Trouble Company.
Quarron, c. a Body.
Quarte, Nails of the Sword-Hand quite up.
Quarting upon the streight Line, keeping the Head and Shoulders very much back from the Adversary’s Sword, when one thrusts with his own.
Quash, to Suppress, Annul, or Overthrow. To Quash the indictment.
Quean, a Whore, or Slut. A dirty Quean, a very Puzzel or Slut.
Queasy Stomacht, Crop-sick, Qualmish.
Queen Elizabeth’s Pocket-pistol, a Brass-Cannon of a prodigious Length at Dover-Castle.
Queere, c. base, Roguish, naught. How Queerely the Cull Touts? c. how roguishly the Fellow looks.
Queere Birds, c. such as having got loose, return to their old Trade of Roguing and Thieving.
Queere-bluffer, c. a sneaking, sharping, Cut-throat Ale-house or Inn-keeper.
Queere-bung, c. an empty Purse.
Queere-clout, c. a sorry, coarse ord’nary or old Handkerchief, not worth Nimming.
Queere cole, c. Clipt, Counterfeit, or Brass Money.
Queere cole-maker, c. a false-Coyner.
Queere cole-fencer, c. a Receiver and putter off false Money.
Queere-cove, c. a Rogue.
Queere-cuffin, c. a Justice of Peace; also a Churl.
Queere-cull, c. a Fop, or Fool, a Codshead; also a shabby poor Fellow.
Queere-degen, c. an Iron, Steel, or Brass-hilted Sword.
Queere-diver, c. a bungling Pick-pocket.
Queere-doxy, c. a jilting Jade, a sorry shabby Wench.
Queere-drawers, c. Yarn, coarse Worsted, ord’nary or old Stockings.
Queere duke, c. a poor decayed Gentleman; also a lean, thin, half Starved Fellow.
Queere fun, c. a bungling Cheat or Trick.
Queere-ken, c. an ill House, or a Prison.
Queere-mort, c. a dirty Drab, a jilting Wench, a Pockey Jade.
Queere-nab, c. a Felt, Carolina, Cloth, or ord’nary Hat, not worth whipping off a Man’s Head.
Queere-kicks, c. coarse, ord’nary or old Breeches.
Queere-peepers, c. old-fashion’d, ord’nary, black-fram’d, or common Looking-glasses.
Queere-prancer, c. a Founder’d Jade, an ord’nary low-priz’d Horse.
Queere-topping, c. sorry Commodes or Head-dresses.
Quibble, to Trifle, or Pun. Sir Quibble Queere, a trifling silly shatter-brain’d Fellow.
Quidds, c. Money. Tip the Quidds, c. can ye spend your Sixpence.
Quietists, a Numerous and considerable Sect amongst the Papists, being against Oral and wholly for Mental Prayer, Whiggs, Popish Precisians, or Puritans.
Quipps, Girds, Taunts, Jeers, &c.
Quirks in Law, Law-tricks or Subtilties.
Quirks and Quillets, Tricks and Devices.
Quod, c. Newgate; also any Prison, tho’ for Debt. The Dab’s in the Quod, c. the poor Rogue is in Limbo.
Quota, c. Snack, Share, Part, Proportion or Dividend. Tip me my Quota, c. give me my Part of the Winnings, Booty, Plunder, &c.