n. an apparatus containing compressed air or other oxygen-gas mixture, permitting a person to breathe under water; -- also called a scuba.
Syn. -- scuba [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. [ L. coaequalis; co- + aequalis equal. ] Being on an equality in rank or power. -- n. One who is on an equality with another. [ 1913 Webster ]

In once he come to be a cardinal,
He'll make his cap coequal with the crown. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With coequality. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which disqualifies; that which incapacitates or makes unfit; as, conviction of crime is a disqualification of a person for office; sickness is a disqualification for labor. [ 1913 Webster ]

I must still retain the consciousness of those disqualifications which you have been pleased to overlook. Sir J. Shore. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. rendered ineligible by law or rule or provision; as, disqualified from voting. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Sports) barred from competition for violation of rules; as, a disqualified player. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disqualified p. pr. & vb. n. Disqualifying. ] 1. To deprive of the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; to render unfit; to incapacitate; -- with for or from before the purpose, state, or act. [ 1913 Webster ]

My common illness disqualifies me for all conversation; I mean my deafness. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Me are not disqualified by their engagements in trade from being received in high society. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deprive of some power, right, or privilege, by positive restriction; to disable; to debar legally; as, a conviction of perjury disqualifies a man to be a witness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. aequalis, fr. aequus even, equal; akin to Skr. &unr_;ka, and perh. to L. unus for older oinos one, E. one. ] 1. Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied to number, degree, quantity, and intensity, and to any subject which admits of them; neither inferior nor superior, greater nor less, better nor worse; corresponding; alike; as, equal quantities of land, water, etc. ; houses of equal size; persons of equal stature or talents; commodities of equal value. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Bearing a suitable relation; of just proportion; having competent power, abilities, or means; adequate; as, he is not equal to the task. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Scots trusted not their own numbers as equal to fight with the English. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is not permitted to me to make my commendations equal to your merit. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose voice an equal messenger
Conveyed thy meaning mild. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not variable; equable; uniform; even; as, an equal movement. “An equal temper.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Evenly balanced; not unduly inclining to either side; characterized by fairness; unbiased; impartial; equitable; just. [ 1913 Webster ]

Are not my ways equal? Ezek. xviii. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thee, O Jove, no equal judge I deem. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor think it equal to answer deliberate reason with sudden heat and noise. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Of the same interest or concern; indifferent. [ 1913 Webster ]

They who are not disposed to receive them may let them alone or reject them; it is equal to me. Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Mus.) Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; -- opposed to mixed. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Math.) Exactly agreeing with respect to quantity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Equal temperament. (Mus.) See Temperament.

Syn. -- Even; equable; uniform; adequate; proportionate; commensurate; fair; just; equitable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One not inferior or superior to another; one having the same or a similar age, rank, station, office, talents, strength, or other quality or condition; an equal quantity or number; as, “If equals be taken from equals the remainders are equal.” [ 1913 Webster ]

Those who were once his equals envy and defame him. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. State of being equal; equality. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Equaled r Equalled; p. pr. & vb. n. Equaling or Equalling. ] 1. To be or become equal to; to have the same quantity, the same value, the same degree or rank, or the like, with; to be commen&unr_;urate with. [ 1913 Webster ]

On me whose all not equals Edward's moiety. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make equal return to; to recompense fully. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who answered all her cares, and equaled all her love. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make equal or equal to; to equalize; hence, to compare or regard as equals; to put on equality. [ 1913 Webster ]

He would not equal the mind that he found in himself to the infinite and incomprehensible. Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. p. p. of equalise; same as equalized. [ British ]
Syn. -- equalized. [ PJC ]

n. 1. (Electronics) an electronic circuit which reduces frequency distortion.
Syn. -- equalizer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. an equivalent counterbalancing weight.
Syn. -- counterweight, counterbalance, counterpoise, balance, equalizer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who believes in equalizing the condition of men; a leveler. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality.
Syn. -- egalitarianism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Equalities [ L. aequalitas, fr. aequalis equal. See Equal. ] 1. The condition or quality of being equal; agreement in quantity or degree as compared; likeness in bulk, value, rank, properties, etc.; as, the equality of two bodies in length or thickness; an equality of rights. [ 1913 Webster ]

A footing of equality with nobles. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sameness in state or continued course; evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of temper or constitution. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Evenness; uniformity; as, an equality of surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Math.) Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. [ 1913 Webster ]

Confessional equality. See under Confessional. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of equalizing, or state of being equalized. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their equalization with the rest of their fellow subjects. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Equalized p. pr. & vb. n. Equalizing ] [ Cf. F. égaliser. ] 1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

One poor moment can suffice
To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

No system of instruction will completely equalize natural powers. Whately. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pronounce equal; to compare as equal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which we equalize, and perhaps would willingly prefer to the Iliad. Orrery. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be equal to; equal; to match. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It could not equalize the hundredth part
Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Equalizing bar (Railroad Mach.), a lever connecting two axle boxes, or two springs in a car truck or locomotive, to equalize the pressure on the axles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, equalizes anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. same as Equalizing bar. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. A device, as a bar, for operating two brakes, esp. a pair of hub brakes for an automobile, with equal force. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

4. (Elec.) Any device for equalizing the pull of electromagnets; also, a conductor of low resistance joining the armature ends of the series field coils of dynamos connected in parallel. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

5. (Aëronautics) A sliding panel to preserve the lateral stability of an aëroplane. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

6. (Electronics) a device or circuit within a sound-reproducing system that reproduces the original frequency distribution of the sound before recording by compensating for inequialities in the frequency response of the system. [ PJC ]

7. a gun. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

adv. In an equal manner or degree in equal shares or proportion; with equal and impartial justice; without difference; alike; evenly; justly; as, equally taxed, furnished, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Equality; evenness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inaequalis. See In- not, and Equal. ] Unequal; uneven; various. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Inequalities [ L. inaequalitas. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or lack of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; disproportion; unevenness; disparity; diversity; as, an inequality in size, stature, numbers, power, distances, motions, rank, property, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is so great an inequality in the length of our legs and arms as makes it impossible for us to walk on all four. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Notwithstanding which inequality of number, it was resolved in a council of war to fight the Dutch fleet. Ludlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sympathy is rarely strong where there is a great inequality of condition. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unevenness; lack of levelness; the alternate rising and falling of a surface; as, the inequalities of the surface of the earth, or of a marble slab, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The country is cut into so many hills and inequalities as renders it defensible. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Variableness; changeableness; inconstancy; lack of smoothness or equability; deviation; unsteadiness, as of the weather, feelings, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Inequality of air is ever an enemy to health. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Disproportion to any office or purpose; inadequacy; competency; as, the inequality of terrestrial things to the wants of a rational soul. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Alg.) An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality (> or <) between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Astron.) An irregularity, or a deviation, in the motion of a planet or satellite from its uniform mean motion; the amount of such deviation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being qualified; abatable; modifiable. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. qualification. See Qualify. ] 1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success; an enabling quality or circumstance; requisite capacity or possession. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of limiting, or the state of being limited; that which qualifies by limiting; modification; restriction; hence, abatement; diminution; as, to use words without any qualification. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which qualifies, modifies, or restricts; a qualifying term or statement. [ 1913 Webster ]

How many qualificatives, correctives, and restrictives he inserteth in this relation. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. ] (R. C. Ch.) An officer whose business it is to examine and prepare causes for trial in the ecclesiastical courts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Fitted by accomplishments or endowments. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Modified; limited; as, a qualified statement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Qualified fee (Law), a base fee, or an estate which has a qualification annexed to it, the fee ceasing with the qualification, as a grant to A and his heirs, tenants of the manor of Dale. --
Qualified indorsement (Law), an indorsement which modifies the liability of the indorser that would result from the general principles of law, but does not affect the negotiability of the instrument. Story. --
Qualified negative (Legislation), a limited veto power, by which the chief executive in a constitutional government may refuse assent to bills passed by the legislative body, which bills therefore fail to become laws unless upon a reconsideration the legislature again passes them by a certain majority specified in the constitution, when they become laws without the approval of the executive. --
Qualified property (Law), that which depends on temporary possession, as that in wild animals reclaimed, or as in the case of a bailment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Competent; fit; adapted. -- Qualified, Competent. Competent is most commonly used with respect to native endowments and general ability suited to the performance of a task or duty; qualified with respect to specific acquirements and training. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the way of qualification; with modification or qualification. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being qualified. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Qualified p. pr. & vb. n. Qualifying ] [ F. qualifier, LL. qualificare, fr. L. qualis how constituted, as + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Quality, and -Fy. ] 1. To make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the knowledge, skill, or other accomplishment necessary for a purpose; to make capable, as of an employment or privilege; to supply with legal power or capacity. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

It hath no larynx . . . to qualify the sound. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To reduce from a general, undefined, or comprehensive form, to particular or restricted form; to modify; to limit; to restrict; to restrain; as, to qualify a statement, claim, or proposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors. [ 1913 Webster ]

I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire,
But qualify the fire's extreme rage. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To soothe; to cure; -- said of persons. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In short space he has them qualified. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To fit; equip; prepare; adapt; capacitate; enable; modify; soften; restrict; restrain; temper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath, or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. LL. gualitativus, F. qualitatif. ] Relating to quality; having the character of quality. -- Qual"i*ta*tive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Qualitative analysis (Chem.), analysis which merely determines the constituents of a substance without any regard to the quantity of each ingredient; -- contrasted with quantitative analysis. [1913 Webster]

a. Furnished with qualities; endowed. [ Obs. ] “He was well qualitied.” Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Qualities [ F. qualité, L. qualitas, fr. qualis how constituted, as; akin to E. which. See Which. ] 1. The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort; rank. [ 1913 Webster ]

We lived most joyful, obtaining acquaintance with many of the city not of the meanest quality. Bacon [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Special or temporary character; profession; occupation; assumed or asserted rank, part, or position. [ 1913 Webster ]

I made that inquiry in quality of an antiquary. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which makes, or helps to make, anything such as it is; anything belonging to a subject, or predicable of it; distinguishing property, characteristic, or attribute; peculiar power, capacity, or virtue; distinctive trait; as, the tones of a flute differ from those of a violin in quality; the great quality of a statesman. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Qualities, in metaphysics, are primary or secondary. Primary are those essential to the existence, and even the conception, of the thing, as of matter or spirit Secondary are those not essential to such a conception. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An acquired trait; accomplishment; acquisition. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had those qualities of horsemanship, dancing, and fencing which accompany a good breeding. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Superior birth or station; high rank; elevated character. “Persons of quality.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Quality binding, a kind of worsted tape used in Scotland for binding carpets, and the like. --
The quality, those of high rank or station, as distinguished from the masses, or common people; the nobility; the gentry. [ 1913 Webster ]

I shall appear at the masquerade dressed up in my feathers, that the quality may see how pretty they will look in their traveling habits. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Property; attribute; nature; peculiarity; character; sort; rank; disposition; temper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. cwealm death, slaughter, pestilence, akin to OS. & OHG. qualm. See Quail to cower. ] 1. Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve [ dead ]. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony. “ Qualms of heartsick agony.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea. [ 1913 Webster ]

For who, without a qualm, hath ever looked
On holy garbage, though by Homer cooked? Roscommon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea or sickly languor; inclined to vomit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Qualm"ish*ly, adv. -- Qualm"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Norw. rorqualus a whale with folds. ] (Zool.) A very large North Atlantic whalebone whale (Physalus antiquorum, or Balaenoptera physalus). It has a dorsal fin, and strong longitudinal folds on the throat and belly. Called also razorback. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is one of the largest of the whales, somethimes becoming nearly one hundred feet long, but it is more slender than the right whales, and is noted for its swiftness. The name is sometimes applied to other related species of finback whales. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. squalus a kind of sea fish. ] (Zool.) The suborder of elasmobranch fishes which comprises the sharks. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. squalidus, fr. squalere to be foul or filthy. ] Dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Uncombed his locks, and squalid his attire. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those squalid dens, which are the reproach of large capitals. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. squaliditas. ] The quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a squalid manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality or state of being squalid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Sw. sqval an impetuous running of water, sqvalregn a violent shower of rain, sqvala to stream, to gush. ] A sudden and violent gust of wind often attended with rain or snow. [ 1913 Webster ]

The gray skirts of a lifting squall. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Black squall, a squall attended with dark, heavy clouds. --
Thick squall, a black squall accompanied by rain, hail, sleet, or snow. Totten. --
White squall, a squall which comes unexpectedly, without being marked in its approach by the clouds. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Squalled p. pr. & vb. n. Squalling. ] [ Icel. skvala. Cf. Squeal. ] To cry out; to scream or cry violently, as a woman frightened, or a child in anger or distress; as, the infant squalled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A loud scream; a harsh cry. [ 1913 Webster ]

There oft are heard the notes of infant woe, --
The short, thick sob, loud scream, and shriller squall. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who squalls; a screamer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Abounding with squalls; disturbed often with sudden and violent gusts of wind; gusty; as, squally weather. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Agric.) Interrupted by unproductive spots; -- said of a field of turnips or grain. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Weaving) Not equally good throughout; not uniform; uneven; faulty; -- said of cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. Squalus a genus of sharks + Gr. 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, a tooth. ] (Paleon.) A genus of fossil whales belonging to the Phocodontia; -- so called because their teeth are serrated, like a shark's. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Pertaining to Squalodon. [ 1913 Webster ]