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  • quicksilver bush
    [from shiny leaves] n. a shrub, Thouinia discolor: 1905 (Shattuck 258). = HARD BARK, NAKED WOOD (San Sal.)
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  • queen fish
    [Car.] n. a fish, Acanthocybium solanderi. (Inagua, San Sal.)
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  • queen crane crow
    [cf. W Car, queen john-crow, Sp. reina de zopilote (lit, queen vulture); cf. DJE king crow] n. a vulture (sp?):
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  • quorm
    See Quarm. 1348. quarm, quorm
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  • queen conch
    n. a small conch, Strombus gigas; it has a flat, striped "mouth": 1885 Some years ago the queen-conch (a shell
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  • quarter day
    [W Car.; "so-called because a quarter of the working day still remains" DJE] n. three o'clock in the afternoon. Cf.
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  • quarter bunch
    [W Car.; technical term DJE] n. a stem with six clusters of bananas. (Inagua, San Sal.)
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  • quarter
    [W3, a coin worth a quarter of a dollar] n. Obs. a shilling: 1888 The darkies familiarly speak of twenty-five
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  • quarry (soil)
    [cf. DAE quarry the stone that is quarried (individualism?)] n. crushed limestone, used in road construction: 1977 (Albury 72). cf.
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  • quarm, quorm
    /kwohm/ [probably from squirm wriggle, by simplification of initial consonant cluster] v. 1. to walk in an affected manner (as
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