(comparable) Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
(mathematics, not comparable) Exactly identical, having the same value.
(music) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.
(not comparable) The same in all respects.
(obsolete) Fair, impartial.
(obsolete) Not variable; equable; uniform; even.
noun
(obsolete) State of being equal; equality.
A person or thing of equal status to others.
verb
(informal) To have as its consequence.
(mathematics, copulative) To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
(transitive) To make equivalent to; to cause to match.
quail
quail
noun
(obsolete) A prostitute, so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.
(uncountable) The meat from this bird eaten as food.
Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.
verb
(intransitive) Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way.
(intransitive) To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful.
(intransitive) To waste away; to fade, to wither.
(obsolete) To curdle or coagulate, as milk does.
(transitive, now rare) To daunt or frighten (someone).
quale
quale
noun
(philosophy) An instance of subjective, conscious experience.
qualm
qualm
noun
(archaic, UK dialectal) A calamity or disaster.
(archaic, UK dialectal) Mortality; plague; pestilence.
(now chiefly in the negative) A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt.
A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc.
A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness.
verb
(intransitive) To have a sickly feeling.
quarl
quarl
noun
(archaic) A medusa or jellyfish.
A fire-resistant channel for a burner in a boiler or furnace.