\textbf{QUERK.} (1) To grunt; to moan. \textit{West.} 

(2) A moulding in joinery. \textit{North.}

\textbf{QUERKEN.} To stifle, or choke. \textit{North.}

``Chekendy or qwerkendy,'' Pr. Parv.

It wil grow in the ventricle to such a masse that it wil at the receit of any hot moisture send up such an ascending fume that it wil be ready to quirken and stifle us.

\textit{Optic Glasse of Humors}, 1639, p. 124.

\textbf{QUERN.} (1) Corn. \textit{Salop.}

(2) A mill. This word is generally applied to a hand-mill. (A.-S.) ``Mola, a quernestone,'' \textit{Nominale MS.}

Having therefore ground eight bushels of good malt upon our querne, where the toll is saved, she addeth unto it halfe a bushell of wheat meale.

\textit{Harrison's Description of England}, p. 169.

\textbf{QUERPO.} Same as \textit{Cuerpo}, q. v. ``Me must den valke in querpo,'' Nabbe's Bride, 4to. Lond. 1640, sig. F. iv.

A batt, who nigh in querpo sat,

Lay snug, and heard the whole debate.

\textit{Collins' Miscellanies}, 1762, p. 132.

\textbf{QUERROUR.} A worker in a quarry.

\textbf{QUERT.} Joyful. Also, joy. In quert, joyful, in good spirits. See Lydgate, pp. 32, 38; Ritson's Met. Rom. iii. 408--9.

Remember thy God while thou art quert.

\textit{MS. Laud.} 416, f. 76.

And that hym byhoveth leve hyth in querte,

And be overcome and caste to helle pytt.

\textit{MS. Cantab. Ff. ii. 38, f. 14.}

But thouȝe that Noe was in qwert,

He was not al in ese of hert.

\textit{Cursor Mundi}, MS. Coll. Trin. Cantab. f. 12.

\textbf{QUEST.} (1) The sides of an oven. Pies are said to be \textit{quested} when their sides have been crushed by each other, or so joined to them as thence to be less baked. \textit{North.}

(2) To give tongue as hounds do on trail. ``To bay or quest as a dog,'' Florio, p. 1. Still in use. See Forby, ii. 268.

Kenettes questede to quelle,

Al so breme so any belle,

The deer daunteden in the delle,

That al the doune dede.

\textit{Reliq. Antiq.} ii. 7.

(3) An inquest. \textit{Var. dial.} Both words are used by Hall, Henry VIII. f. 50, 53.

\textbf{QUESTANT.} A candidate; one who is seeking for some object. \textit{Shak.}

\textbf{QUESTE.} A prayer, or demand. (A.-N.)

\textbf{QUESTEROUN.} Cooks, or scullions.

\textbf{QUEST-HOUSE.} The chief watch-house of a parish, generally adjoining a church, where sometimes quests concerning misdemeanours and annoyances were held. The \textit{quest-house} is frequently mentioned in the accounts of St. Giles, Cripplegate, 1571, MS. Addit. 12222.

\textbf{QUESTMEN.} ``Those that are yearly chosen, according to the custom of a parish, to assist the churchwardens in the enquiry, and presenting such offenders as are punishable in the court-christian,'' Blount's \textit{Glossographia}, ed. 1681, p. 594.

\textbf{QUESTMONGER.} A juryman.

Awake, awake, ye questmongers, and take heed you give a true, just, and right verdict.

\textit{Becon's Works}, p. 370.

\textbf{QUESTUARY.} Profitable.

\textbf{QUETE.} Wheat. It is the translation of the \textit{frumentum} in MS. Lansd. 560, f. 45.

That ȝere shalbe litul qvete,

And plenté shalbe of appuls gret.

\textit{MS. Cantab. Ff. v. 48, f. 75.}

\textbf{QUETHE.} (1) Harm; mischief. (A.-S.)

(2) To say; to declare. (A.-S.)

(3) To bequeath. \textit{Lydgate.}

Hous and rente and outher thyng

Mow they quethe at here endyng.

\textit{MS. Harl.} 1701, f. 42.

(4) Cry; clamour. \textit{Gawayne.}

\textbf{QUETHING.} Saying, crying.

Being alive and seinge I peryshe; i. beinge quycke and quethyng I am undone.

\textit{Palsgrave's Acolastus}, 1540.

\textbf{QUETHUN.} Whence. \textit{Robson.}

\textbf{QUETOURE.} A scab, or swelling.

\textbf{QUEVER.} Gay; lively. \textit{West.}

\textbf{QUEW.} Cold.

\textbf{QUEZZEN.} To suffocate. \textit{East.}

\textbf{QUHILES.} Whilst.

Quhyles he es qwykkande in qwerte unquyellyde with handis,

Be he never mo saved ne socoured with Cryste.

\textit{Morte Arthure}, MS. Lincoln, f. 93.

\textbf{QUIB.} A taunt, or mock. \textit{Coles.}

\textbf{QUIBIBES.} Cubebs. ``Quiperium, a quybybe,'' \textit{Nominale MS.}

\textbf{QUIBLIN.} An attempt to deceive.

\textbf{QUICE.} A wood-pigeon. \textit{Glouc.}

\textbf{QUICHE.} To move.

\textbf{QUICK.} (1) Alive; living.

In thilke time men hem tok

With jugement withouten lcs,

And also quic dolven hes.

\textit{Arthur and Merlin}, p. 28.

Sir, he seid, asay of this,

Thei were ȝisturday quyck i-wysse.

\textit{MS. Cantab. Ff. v. 48, f. 50.}

Quyk? ye, forsothe, quyk it was,

As wel I may tel you al the case.

\textit{The Sacrifice of Abraham}, p. 18.

(2) The growing plants which are reared or set for a hedge. \textit{Var. dial.}

(3) Sharp; piercing. \textit{Devon.}

\textbf{QUICK-DEER.} Deer with young.

\textbf{QUICKEN.} (1) Couch grass. \textit{North.}

(2) To work with yeast. \textit{Quickening-dish}, the yeast or balm that is put to new drink to make it work. \textit{North.}

(3) To revive. Still in use.

(4) To conceive with child.

\textbf{QUICKER.} A quickset hedge. \textit{West.}

\textbf{QUICKLINGS.} Young insects. \textit{East.}

\textbf{QUICKMIRE.} A quagmire. \textit{Devon.}

\textbf{QUICKWOOD.} Thorns. \textit{Yorksh.}

\textbf{QUID.} (1) The cud. \textit{Var. dial.} Hence, generally, to suck one's tongue.

(2) A mouthful of tobacco. \textit{Var. dial.}

\textbf{QUIDDITY.} A subtlety; a subtle quirk or pretence. \textit{Quiddit} was also used.

\textbf{QUIERE.} A royal stable.

\textbf{QUIET.} Gentlemanly. \textit{West.}

\textbf{QUIETUS.} The official discharge of an account. (Lat.) It is chiefly used metaphorically, and