n. [ Cf. 3d Cue. ] A half farthing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Quick. ] A thick, bushy plot; a thicket. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf. E. quich, v. i., quick, v. i.; or AS. cweccan to shake. ] To stir; to move. See Quick, v. i. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Yielding or trembling under the feet, as moist or boggy ground; shaking; moving. “The queachy fens.” “Godwin's queachy sands.” Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Like a queach; thick; bushy. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Originally, a woman, AS. cwene; akin to OS. quena, OHG. quena, Icel. kona, Goth qin&unr_;, and AS. cwén, also to Gr. &unr_; woman, wife, Skr. gnā goddess. Cf. Queen. ] 1. A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl. [ Obs. or Scot. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A low woman; a wench; a slut. “The dread of every scolding quean.” Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a queasy manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being queasy; nausea; qualmishness; squeamishness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Icel. kweisa pain; cf. Norw. kveis sickness after a debauch. ] 1. Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea; inclined to vomit; qualmish. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fastidious; squeamish; delicate; easily disturbed; unsettled; ticklish. “ A queasy question.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some seek, when queasy conscience has its qualms. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Geol.) The middle of the three groups into which the rocks of the Canadian period have been divided in the American Lower Silurian system. See the Chart of Geology. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] (Bot.) A Chilian apocynaceous tree (Aspidosperma Quebracho); also, its bark, which is used as a febrifuge, and for dyspnœa of the lung, or bronchial diseases; -- called also white quebracho, to distinguish it from the red quebracho, a Mexican anacardiaceous tree (Loxopterygium Lorentzii) whose bark is said to have similar properties. J. Smith (Dict. Econ. Plants). [ 1913 Webster ]