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 Quadrangule: com. The same.

Quadrannier: m. ere: f. Of foure yeares; also, foure yeares old.

Quadraturé: m. ée: f. Square, well growne, well set, almost as thicke as long.

Quadre. les Quadres de la Lune. The Quarters of the Moone.

Quadré: m. ée: f. Squared; also, fitted, or agreeing, vnto.

Quadrelle: f. An Arrow, a Shaft.

Quadrer. To square; also, to sute, be fit, agree vnto, stand well with, serue iust in a place.

Quadrilettre: f. A word of foure letters.

Quadrille: f. A Squadron containing 25 (or fewer) Souldiers.

Quadrin: m. as Liard. Quadrivie: f. A place where foure sundrie wayes doe meet; also, a way that hath foure seuerall turnings, or partings.

Quadrupe: com. Foure-footed.

Quadruple: com. Quadruple, foure double, foure-fold, foure times as much.

Quadruplé: m. ée: f. Quadruplated; foulded, renewed, repeated foure times ouer; made foure times as much.

Quadruplement: m. as Quadruplication. Quadrupler. To fould, renew, repeat foure times; to quadruplate, or make foure times as much.

Quadruplication: f. A quadruplication; a renewing, repeating, making foure times ouer.

Quadruplique du defendeur: f. A second reioynder; or the third defence made, or writing put into Court, by a defendant.

Qu'a-huqu'a-ha. Well or ill, I know not how; here or there, one way or another; also, laboriously, hardly, painefully, with much paine, with great adoe.

Quai: m. The key of a riuer, or hauen; also, a piller of Marble, or stone.

Quaisse: f. A square woodden chest, such as Armour, or Marchandise is carried in; also, a great, and chestlike partition in garners, to put corne in; also, a Drumme, or (most properly) the barrell, or wood of a Drumme; also, a Scoope, or Ladle, such as Canoniers lade their peeces withall.

Quaissier: m. A Chest-keeper; he that keepeth the keyes of the chest wherein publicke Records, or commodities, are kept.

Qualibre: m. The bore of a Gunne, or size of the bore; (and hence) also, the size, capacitie, or fashion of any such thing; also, the state, condition, calling, or humor of a man; whence;  Il n'est pas de mon qualibre. He is not of my qualitie, ranke, or humor, he is no fit companion for me.

Qualibré: m. ée: f. Fit for, or fitted vnto, the bore, agreeing with, or applied vnto the size, of.  Balotte de fer bien qualibrée. A bullet of a good size, or seruing for a large bore.

Qualifié: m. ée: f. Qualified, intitled, stiled, called, tearmed.

Qualifier. To qualifie, tearme, intitle, call, stile.

Qualité: f. A qualitie, condition, sort, fashion, manner, degree, state, name, title, function, calling; any circumstance accompanying, or belonging to, a thing.

Quand. When, at what time, when as; also, if that, allthough, howbeit, notwithstanding, all were it; also, seeing that; also, till, vntill, or against the time that.

Quandoque. Docteur de quandoque. A dunsicall Doctor.

Quaneuse: f. A Mill-hopper. Quant à. As for, as touching, in as much as, in regard of.  Quant & quant. Forthwith, incontinently, therewith, by and by.  Quant & quant vous. Altogether, together with, in companie of, you.  Quant est de moy. For my part, as for me.  Quant ores. Albeit, though, although.  D'icy à quant? ''How farre off? how long to? vntill what time?''  Il fait bien le quant à moy. He stands on verie nice tearmes, he makes verie strange, or daintie of the matter; also, he slackens, relents, growes calme; also, hee hath a good conceit of himselfe, or values a strange opinion of his owne aboue all others.

Quantes fois. How often, how many times.  Toutes & quantes fois; or, Toutes fois & quantes. As often, as many times, as.

Quantiesme: com. Of what number, or which (in number?) in what place, ranke, order?

Quantité: f. Quantitie, size, bignesse, greatnesse; a deale, store, plentie, abundance.

Quanton. as Canton. Quaqueroles: f. The tawnie Beetles which buzze about by flockes in hay-time; also, the shells of Snayles, &c.

Quaquet: m. Prattling, tattling, tittle tattle, prittle prattle, much talke, lowd chat, many words.

Quaquetant. Prattling, tattling, babbling, chattering.

Quaqeté. Tattled, prattled, babbled.

Quaquetement: m. A prating, prattling, babbling, tattling, chattering.

Quaqueter. To prate, prattle, babble, tattle, chatter, vse many words.

Quarantaine: f. Lent; also, a terme of fortie dayes, du- which prayers are, in some places, powred out for the dead.  La Quarantaine de Roy. Fortie dayes truce, during which it was not lawfull for a man, in S. Lewis his time, to prosecute any reuenge against the kinsmen, or friends of such as had wronged, or outraged him.

Quarante. Fortie.

Quarantiéme: com. The fortieth.

Quarentaine. as Quarantaine. Quaresme: m. Lent; See Caresme. Quaresmeau. Iour quaresmeau. A Lenten, or fish-*day.

Quarillon. as Carillon. Quarlet: m. The small Plaice, or fresh-water Plaice; or a kind of broad, and short Plaice.

Quarme: m. The Horne beame, Hard beame, Witch Hasell, Yoke tree.

Quarneau. as Creneau. Quarquan. See Carcan. Quarre: m. A Square, Quadrant, square figure; any thing that is foure square; and (particularly) a square bed in a Garden.

Quarré: m. ée: f. Square, foure-square; squared, made square.

Quarreau: m. Is (generally) a little square, or square thing; (particularly) a Diamond, or Picke, at Cardes; also, a square tile, or bricke, fit to paue with; also, a cushion; also, a bed in a Garden; also, a Quarrell, or boult for a Crossebow, or an Arrow with a foure-square head; also, as Plinthe; See Carreau. Le quarreau de prisons. The Maisters side.

Quarrefour: m. The place in, or part of, a towne where-*