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Quasimodo – Queenstown

Quasimodo

in the Roman calendar, a term applied to the first Sunday after Easter, from the opening words of the introit for that day, "quasi modo geniti infantes" as (infants) lately (born).

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Quaternary

or POST-TERTI- ARY, the fourth great division of the fossiliferous strata, which embraces the Pleistocene or Glacial and Post-glacial and Recent systems.

Quaternion

in mathematics, the metrographic relation existing between any two right lines, having definite lengths and directions in space, depending on four irreducible geometrical elements. a QUATHLAMBA MOUNTAINS, range in South Africa, forming the W. boundary of Zululand and Natal; also the Drakensberg Mountains.

Quatrocento

a term applied to the charac characteristic style of the artists who practiced in the 14th century.

Quaver

a shake or rapid vibration of the voice; a shake on an instrument of music. Also a note and measure of time, equal to half a crotchet or the eighth of a semibreve.

Quay

a landing place; a wharf projecting into a stream, harbor, or basin, to which vessels are moored for the purpose of receiving and delivering freight.

Quebracho

in botany, Aspidosperma quebracho, a Chilean apocynaceous tree; its bark is used as a febrifuge and in lung or bronchial diseases. It is called also white quebracho, to distinguish it from the red quebracho, a Mexican tree.

Quedah

or KEDAH, a state on the W. side of the Malay Peninsula, with an side of the Malay Peninsula, with area of 3,600 square miles. Pop. about 250,000, nominally subject to Siam. The capital, from which the state takes its name, has a population of about 30,000.

Queen Anne's Bounty

the name given to a fund appropriated to increase the income of the poorer clergy of England, created out of the first fruits and tenths, which before the Reformation formed part of the papal exactions from the clergy.

Queen's College

for women, was established in London, in 1848, and incorporated by royal charter in 1853. Its aim is to provide for the higher education of women, in the first place by a liberal school training, and subsequently by a six years' course of college education.

Queen's Metal

an alloy used for making teapots, obtained by fusing under charcoal a mixture of nine parts tin, one part each antimony, lead, and bismuth. measures the ministers intend to bring forward.

Queenstown

a seaport of Ireland; on the S. side of Great Island; in the harbor of Cork, 12 miles S. E. of Cork, and 177 S. W. of Dublin. Its original name was Cove of Cork; the present name commemorates the visit of Queen Victoria in 1849. Pop. about 8,500.