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+<h1>Q</h1>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">queen</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A woman
+by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled
+when there is not.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">quill</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> An
+implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This
+use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is
+wielded by the same everlasting Presence.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">quiver</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A
+portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal lawyer
+carried their lighter arguments.</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<p class="poetry">He extracted from his quiver,</p>
+<p class="poetry">Did the controversial Roman,</p>
+<p class="poetry">An argument well fitted</p>
+<p class="poetry">To the question as submitted,</p>
+<p class="poetry">Then addressed it to the liver,</p>
+<p class="poetry">Of the unpersuaded foeman.</p>
+<p class="citeauth">Oglum P. Boomp</p>
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+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">quixotic</span>, <span class="pos">adj.</span> Absurdly
+chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this
+incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to
+know that the gentleman’s name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<p class="poetry">When ignorance from out of our lives can banish Philology, ‘tis folly to know Spanish.</p>
+<p class="citeauth">Juan Smith</p>
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+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">quorum</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A
+sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and
+their own way of having it. In the United States Senate a quorum consists of
+the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House;
+in the House of Representatives, of the Speaker and the devil.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">quotation</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> The
+act of repeating erroneously the words of another. </p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<p class="poetry">The words erroneously repeated.</p>
+<p class="poetry">Intent on making his quotation truer,</p>
+<p class="poetry">He sought the page infallible of Brewer,</p>
+<p class="poetry">Then made a solemn vow that we would be</p>
+<p class="poetry">Condemned eternally. Ah, me, ah, me!</p>
+<p class="citeauth">Stumpo Gaker</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">quotient</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A
+number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is
+contained in the pocket of another—usually about as many times as it can be got there.</p>
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