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QUANTOCK HILLS 



quagga was only a local race of the 

 common zebra (E. zebra), Bur- 

 chell's zebra (E. burchelli), or Chap- 

 man's zebra, with darker upper 

 parts, the legs and under parts white 

 and free from stripes, and the sides 

 spotted. See Zebra. 



Quai d'Orsay. Thoroughfare 

 in Paris running for nearly 2 m. 

 along the N. side of the Seine, from 

 the Champ de Mars to the Pont 

 Royal. The many government 

 offices situated along it, including 

 the foreign office, make it the 

 Whitehall of France, and Quai 

 d'Orsay is used at times as a 

 synonym for the French govern- 

 ment. Prow. Kay dorsay. 



Quail (Coturnix communis). 

 Small game bird about the size of 

 a thrush. Closely related to the 

 pheasant and partridge, it is a 

 native of Europe, Asia, and N. 

 Africa. It is a fairly regular visitor, 

 but in variable numbers, to the 



Quai), a game bird which breeds in 

 the British Isles 



British Isles, breeding in many 

 localities, mostly departing before 

 winter. It is much like a diminu- 

 tive partridge in shape and 

 general coloration, and seeks its 

 food under cover of the field crops. 

 The nest is a slight grass-lined 

 depression in the ground, and con- 

 tains from seven to ten brown- 

 blotched, buff-tinted eggs. The 

 alarm note is a " whit-whit-whit." 

 Vast numbers are netted in the 

 Mediterranean countries during 

 the spring migration, and exported 

 alive for food. There are five other 

 species, natives of E. Asia, Austra- 

 lasia, and Africa. 



Quain, SIR RICHARD (1816-98). 

 British physician. Born at Mallow, 

 co. Cork, Ireland, Oct. 30, 1816, he 

 became house surgeon at Univer- 

 sity College Hospital, London, 

 1840, and consulting physician to 

 many other hospitals. In 1863 he 

 became a member of the general 

 medical council, and its president 

 1891, in which year he was made a 

 baronet. He was the editor of the 

 Dictionary of Medicine, 1882. and 

 died March 13, 1898. 



Richard Quain (1800-87), his 

 cousin, was president of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons, 1868, and one 



Sir Richard Quain, 

 British physician 



of its original 

 members, and 

 Jones Quain 

 (1796 - 1865), 

 anothercousin, 

 was famous as 

 the author of 

 Elements of 

 Descriptive 

 and Practical 

 Anatomy, first 

 published i n 

 1828, and long one of the best 

 known books on the subject. 



Quake Grass (Briza media) OR 

 TOTTER-GRASS. Perennial grass of 

 the natural order Gramineae. It 

 is a native of ^__ _______ 



Europe, Asia, 

 and Africa. It 

 has creeping, 

 underground 

 stems and flat 

 leaves. The 

 flowering 

 stemsaremuch 

 branched, and 

 each of the 

 flattened, oval, 

 more or less 

 purple and 

 shining spikes 

 is borne on a 

 long, hair-like 

 stalk. A small- 

 er species (B. 

 minor) has 

 tufted stems, Ms 

 and is an Quake Grass. Stem 

 annual. and flower s P ike! 



Quaker Girl, THE. Musical 

 comedy by J. L. Tanner, with 

 music by Lionel Monckton. Pro- 

 duced at the Adelphi Theatre, 

 London, Nov. 5, 1910, it had a run 

 of 536 performances. Gertie Millar 

 appeared in the title role, and the 

 cast included Joseph Coyne, Hay- 

 den Coffin, and Elsie Spain. 



Quakers. Popular name for the 

 Society of Friends. Its original 

 derisive reference to the bodily 

 tremors of members of the society 

 when moved by the Spirit in public 

 worship has long disappeared. See 

 Fox, George ; Jordans ; Society of 

 Friends. 



Quality (Lat. qualitas, from 

 qualis, of what kind ? ). In the 

 widest sense, attribute as opposed 

 to substance, all that can be 

 affirmed of a being regarded as 

 subject ; in a narrower sense, a 

 particular kind of attribute which 

 leads to a substance being included 

 in a certain class. Qualities have 

 been distinguished as primary, 

 such as are found everywhere in 

 matter (extension, solidity, figure, 

 motion or rest, number), and 

 secondary, such as are not neces- 

 sarily inseparable from matter 

 (colour, taste, warmth, smell), but 

 depend upon the action of the 



primary qualities. In psychology, 

 quality is the characteristic where- 

 by one sensation is distinguished 

 from every other. 



Quality Street. Comedy by 

 J. M. Barrie. Produced Sept. 17, 

 1902, at the Vaudeville Theatre, 

 London, it had a run of 459 

 performances. The story deals 

 with two sisters, who are reduced 

 to keeping a school. Ellaline Ter- 

 riss played Phoebe Throssel, Marion 

 Terry appeared as her elder sister 

 Susan, and Seymour Hicks took 

 the part of Phoebe's soldier lover, 

 Valentine Brown. It was revived 

 in London in 1921. 



Quamash (C amass ia quamash). 

 Bulbous perennial of the natural 

 order Liliaceae, native of N.W. 

 America. It has narrow leaves 

 about a foot long, and a stout 

 flowering stem bearing a spray of 

 six-parted blue flowers. After the 

 plants have flowered, the natives 

 dig up the bulbs and dry them by 

 heat, when they are pounded into 

 cakes for use as food. 



Quandary Peak. Mountain of 

 the U.S. A., in Colorado. It rises to 

 14,266 ft. in the Park Range. 



Quantification of the Pre- 

 dicate. The determination of the 

 logical quantity of the predicate, 

 whether it is general or particular, 

 by the addition of the words all, 

 every, some. Thus, the proposi- 

 tions, All A is B, some A is B, 

 would appear as, All A is all B, All 

 A is some B, Some A is all B, Some 

 A is some B. See Logic. 



Quantity (Lat. quant m, how 

 much?). Literally, the amount of 

 anything. The word is used in 

 several senses. In metre it is the 

 length of a syllable, a false quan- 

 tity being an error in such length. 

 In logic it means the extent of a 

 conception, and in music the rela- 

 tive duration of a tone. In mathe- 

 matics a quantity is anything that 

 can be increased or divided or mea- 

 sured. See Weights and Measures. 

 Quantity Surveyor. One who 

 estimates from an architect's 

 drawings the total quantity of 

 materials required for a building, 

 and draws out a list of the exact 

 amounts of the respective materials 

 for the builder to price them and 

 the cost of the labour to carry 

 out the work. The Quantity Sur- 

 veyors' Association is a professional 

 society or body of quantity sur- 

 veyors, with its headquarters at 

 Caxton House, Tothill Street, 

 Westminster, London, S.W. 



Quantock Hills. Range in 

 Somerset, England. It trends for 

 8 m. N.W. from a point N. of 

 Bishop's Lydeard to the Bristol 

 Channel, 2 m. E. of Watchet. The 

 culminating summit is Wills Neck, 

 1,262 ft. high. 



