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Q

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queen, n. A woman +by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled +when there is not.

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quill, n. 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.

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quiver, n. A +portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and the aboriginal lawyer +carried their lighter arguments.

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He extracted from his quiver,

Did the controversial Roman,

An argument well fitted

To the question as submitted,

Then addressed it to the liver,

Of the unpersuaded foeman.

Oglum P. Boomp

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quixotic, adj. 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.

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When ignorance from out of our lives can banish Philology, ‘tis folly to know Spanish.

Juan Smith

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quorum, n. 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.

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quotation, n. The +act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

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The words erroneously repeated.

Intent on making his quotation truer,

He sought the page infallible of Brewer,

Then made a solemn vow that we would be

Condemned eternally. Ah, me, ah, me!

Stumpo Gaker

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quotient, n. 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.

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