QUIVER, a Case full of Arrows.
To QUIVER, to shiver or shake
QUOIL, a Stir or Tumult.
QUOIT, a round Iron to play with.
QUORUM, a Justice of the Quorum, one before whom all Matters of Importance may be transacted.
QUOTA, a Share, or Contribution.
QUOTATION, a quoting or citing.
To QUOTE, to cite, allege, or bring in an Author or Passage.
QUOTH, sayeth.
QUOTIDIAN, that happens every Day, daily.
QUOTIENT, the Number that shews how often the Diviser is contained in the Dividend.
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A RABBET, a Coney.
To RABBET, among Carpenters, to channel Boards.
RABBIN, RABBI, a Doctor or Teacher of the Jewish Law.
RABBLE, the Dregs of the People.
RABID, mad, furious, enraged.
RACE, Family, Stock, a Root, as of Ginger, also the Course or running or Persons on Foot or on Horseback.
RACHEL, a Woman's Name.
RACK, a torturing Engine, to force Confession from an Offender, also a wooden Frame to hold Fodder for Cattle, or to put Bottles in.
To RACK, to torture Offenders.
To RACK Wines, to draw them off from the Lees.
RACKET, an Instrument to strike the Ball with at Tennis Play; also a Stir, a Hurlyburly, a Disturbance.
RACKOON, a Creature in New England, like a Badger, with a Tail like a Fox.
RACY, (spoken of Wine) a Wine that by Age has lost its luscious Quality.
RADIANT, casting forth Rays, bright, shining, sparkling.
RADIATION, a darting or casting forth Rays or Beams Light.
RADICAL, belonging to the Root, inbred
To RADICATE, to take root.
RADICATED, rooted, that has taken root
RADISH, a Root well known.
To RAFFLE, to play with three Dice, wherein he that throws the greatest Pair or Pair royal wins.
RAFFLE-NET, a sort of Fishing Net.
RAFTER, a Piece of Timber for Building.
A RAG, a Tatter, an old Piece of Cloth.
RAGE, Fury, Madness.
RAGAMUFFIN, a sorry, rascally, or ragged Fellow.
RAGGED, beset with Rags, jagged or notched
RAGOO, a high seasoned Dish of Meat.
RAILS, a wooden Fence to enclose a Place.
To RAIL, to scold, to use harsh opprobious Words.
RAIL, a Womans Garment, or a Night-rail
RAIL, a Bird so called
RAILERY, RAILING, scolding or opprobious Language.
RAIMENT, Attire, Garments.
To RAIN, to fall down in Drops.
A RAINBOW, a Meteor of divers Colours.
RAIN Deer, a sort of Stag Muscovia and other Places
RAINY, moist with, or apt to rain
To RAISE, to lift or lift up, to levy or gather, to prefer or advance
To RAISE a Siege, to give it over, or leave off.
RAISIN, a dried Grape.
RAISTY, or Resty, a Term used of a Horse when he will stand still without moving backward or forward.
A RAKE, a profligate Man, also a Tool used in Husbandry
RAKESHAM, or Rakehell, a loose rascally Fellow
To RAKE, to gether with a Rake.
RAKER, one who cleanses the Streets.
RALLERY, a close or secret Jibe, pleasant drolling, or playing upon another in Discourse.
To RALLY, to play and droll upon, to banter or jest
To RALLY, to gather together dispersed Troops.
RALPH, a Name of Men.
RAM, a Male Sheep, also a warlike Engine, formerly used to batter Walls, &c.
To RAM, to beat or drive in.
To RAMBLE, to go up and down, to go astray
RAMIFICATION, a Collection of small Branches issuing out of large ones
RAMISH, that smells rank like a Ram or Goat.
RAMMER, an Instrument for driving Stones or Piles into the Ground, also a Rammer of a Gun
RAMOSE, RAMOUS, full of Boughs or Branches
To RAMP, to rove, frisk, or jump about
RAMPANT, ramping, wanton
RAMPART, a great massy Bank of Earth raised about the Body of a Place.
RAMSEY, a Place in Huntingtonshire
RANCOUR, Spite, Spleen, Malice, inveterate Hatred.
RAND, the Seam of a Shoe.
A RAND of Beef, a long fleshy Piece of Meat, cut from between the Flank and the Buttock.
RANDOM, without aim, rashly, inconsiderately.
To RANGE, to dispose or place in rank or order, to rove or stray about; also to sift through a Sieve.
RANGE, a Row or Rank; a Ramble or Jaunt.
RANGER of a Forest, an Officer whose Business is to present all Trespasses done in his Bailly-wick at the next Forest Court
RANK, stinking, noisome, smelling strong, also over fruitful, that shoots forth too many Branches or Leaves.
A RANK of Soldiers, the straight Line which the Soldiers