p. pr. & vb. n.
of Quackle
v. i. & t.
To suffocate; to choke.
n.
One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank.
a.
Evil; bad; baffling; as, a quade wind.
n.
A quadrangle; hence, a prison.
n.
The plinth, or lowest member, of any pedestal, podium, water table, or the like.
a.
That may be sqyared, or reduced to an equivalent square; -- said of a surface when the area limited by a curve can be exactly found, and expressed in a finite number of algebraic terms.
a.
Consisting of forty; forty years old.
n.
An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance.
n.
The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent.
a.
Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten.
n. pl.
Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.
n.
A plane figure having four angles, and consequently four sides; any figure having four angles.
n.
A square or quadrangular space or inclosure, such a space or court surrounded by buildings, esp. such a court in a college or public school in England.