Quail definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary QUAIL, v.i. [Quail, in English, signifies to sink or languish, to curdle, and ... in spirits. [Little used.] 2. To fade; to wither. Obs. QUAIL, v.i. To curdle; to coagulate; as milk. QUAIL, v.t. To crush; to depress; to sink; to subdue ... This orthography is obsolete. The word is now written quell.] QUAIL, n. A bird of the genus Tetrao or grouse ...
bustard quail definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that ... classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains [syn: button quail, button-quail, bustard quail, hemipode] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Quail Quail, n. [OF. quaille, F. caille, LL. quaquila, qualia, ...
button quail definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: small quail-like terrestrial bird of southern Eurasia and northern Africa that ... classified with wading birds but inhabits grassy plains [syn: button quail, button-quail, bustard quail, hemipode] Merriam Webster's noun Date: 1885 any of a ... with the hind toe being absent Webster's 1913 Dictionary Quail Quail, n. [OF. quaille, F. caille, LL. quaquila, qualia, ...
Sea quail definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Sea quail Sea" quail` (Zo["o]l.) The turnstone. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Quail Quail, n. [OF. quaille, F. caille, LL. quaquila, qualia, qualea, of ... allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, ...
mountain quail definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: California partridge; slightly larger than the California quail [syn: mountain quail, mountain partridge, Oreortyx picta palmeri] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Mountain ... stem, and a terminal cluster of large, pinnate leaves. Mountain quail (Zo["o]l.), the plumed partridge (Oreortyx pictus) of California ... of Jamaica, of the genus Geotrygon. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Quail Quail, n. [OF. quaille, F. caille, LL. quaquila, qualia, qualea, ...
Quail snipe definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Snipe Snipe, n. [OE ... Half snipe, the dunlin; the jacksnipe. Jack snipe. See Jacksnipe. Quail snipe. See under Quail. Robin snipe, the knot. Sea snipe. See in the Vocabulary ... Rock. Woodcock snipe, the great snipe. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Quail Quail, n. [OF. quaille, F. caille, LL. quaquila, qualia, qualea, of ... allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, ...
Virginia quail definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Virginia Vir*gin"i*a ... Zo["o]l.), the cardinal bird. See under Cardinal. Virginia quail (Zo["o]l.), the bobwhite. Virginia reel, an old English ... Virginia stock. (Bot.) See Mahon stock. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Quail Quail, n. [OF. quaille, F. caille, LL. quaquila, qualia, qualea, of ... allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, the stubble quail (C. pectoralis), ...
Quail call definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Quail Quail, n. [OF. quaille, F. caille, LL. quaquila, qualia, qualea, of ... allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, the stubble quail (C. pectoralis), and the Australian swamp quail (Synoicus australis). ...
Quail pipe definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Quail Quail, n. [OF. quaille, F. caille, LL. quaquila, qualia, qualea, of ... allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, the stubble quail (C. pectoralis), and the Australian swamp quail (Synoicus australis). ...
Quail hawk definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Quail Quail, n. [OF. quaille, F. caille, LL. quaquila, qualia, qualea, of ... allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, the stubble quail (C. pectoralis), and the Australian swamp quail (Synoicus australis). ...
Quail dove definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Quail Quail, n. [OF. quaille, F. caille, LL. quaquila, qualia, qualea, of ... allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, the stubble quail (C. pectoralis), and the Australian swamp quail (Synoicus australis). ...
Maryland quail definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Quail Quail, n. [OF. quaille, F. caille, LL. quaquila, qualia, qualea, of ... allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, the stubble quail (C. pectoralis), and the Australian swamp quail (Synoicus australis). ...
... Half snipe, the dunlin; the jacksnipe. Jack snipe. See Jacksnipe. Quail snipe. See under Quail. Robin snipe, the knot. Sea snipe. See in the Vocabulary ... Rock. Woodcock snipe, the great snipe. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Quail Quail, n. [OF. quaille, F. caille, LL. quaquila, qualia, qualea, of ... allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, the stubble quail (C. pectoralis), ...
... definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: Old World quail [syn: Coturnix, genus Coturnix] Webster's 1913 Dictionary Quail Quail, n. [OF. quaille, F. caille, LL. quaquila, qualia, qualea, of ... allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, the stubble quail (C. pectoralis), and the Australian swamp quail (Synoicus australis). ...
brown snipe definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Quail Quail, n. [OF. quaille, F. caille, LL. quaquila, qualia, qualea, of ... allied genera of the Old World, especially the common European quail (C. communis), the rain quail (C. Coromandelica) of India, the stubble quail (C. pectoralis), and the Australian swamp quail (Synoicus australis). 2. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of ...