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Definition of q

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Q () the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, has but one sound (that of k), and is always followed by u, the two letters together being sounded like kw, except in some words in which the u is silent. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 249. Q is not found in Anglo-Saxon, cw being used instead of qu; as in cwic, quick; cwen, queen. The name (k/) is from the French ku, which is from the Latin name of the same letter; its form is from the Latin, which derived it, through a Greek alphabet, from th

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Plenitude :: Plenitude (n.) The quality or state of being full or complete; fullness; completeness; abundance; as, the plenitude of space or power..

Piquantly :: Piquantly (adv.) In a piquant manner.

Equerry :: Equerry (n.) A large stable or lodge for horses.

Perplexiveness :: Perplexiveness (n.) The quality of being perplexing; tendency to perplex.

Reposeful :: Reposeful (a.) Full of repose; quiet.

Thirteenth :: Thirteenth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by thirteen; one of thirteen equal parts into which anything is divided.

Homotonous :: Homotonous (a.) Of the same tenor or tone; equable; without variation.

Third-penny :: Third-penny (n.) A third part of the profits of fines and penalties imposed at the country court, which was among the perquisites enjoyed by the earl..

Quadrivial :: Quadrivial (a.) Having four ways meeting in a point.

Capacious :: Capacious (a.) Able or qualified to make large views of things, as in obtaining knowledge or forming designs; comprehensive; liberal..

Mousing :: Mousing (a.) Impertinently inquisitive; prying; meddlesome.

Square :: Square (n.) The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered..

Scotist :: Scotist (n.) A follower of (Joannes) Duns Scotus, the Franciscan scholastic (d. 1308), who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology, in opposition to the Thomists, or followers of Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican scholastic..

Station :: Station (n.) A state of standing or rest; equilibrium.

Anisophyllous :: Anisophyllous (a.) Having unequal leaves.

Inapplicability :: Inapplicability (n.) The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.

Queme :: Queme (v. t. & i.) To please.

Spill :: Spill (v. t.) To suffer to fall or run out of a vessel; to lose, or suffer to be scattered; -- applied to fluids and to substances whose particles are small and loose; as, to spill water from a pail; to spill quicksilver from a vessel; to spill powder from a paper; to spill sand or flour..

Smack :: Smack (v. t.) To open, as the lips, with an inarticulate sound made by a quick compression and separation of the parts of the mouth; to make a noise with, as the lips, by separating them in the act of kissing or after tasting..

Melocotoon :: Melocotoon (n.) A quince.