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femiqiiavt-r, and for which we have no name. The term 

 erochc, in French a (jiuiver, is not derived from croli;hel, but 

 from tiie tall being crooked. And why our crotchet, with a 

 Jlraight tail, lias its name, is a whimfical abfurdity, for which 

 we are unable to account. 



QUVE ejl eadiin, in Pleading, is ufed to fupply the want 

 of a traverfe. (2 Lill. Abr. 405.) In a claufum fregit 

 fuch a day, the defendant pleads the plaintiff's licence to 

 him to enter on the fame day, and that virlute mde he entered ; 

 he need not fay, quit ejl eadem tranjgrejfio. 



Qua; Plura, a writ that anciently lay where inquifition 

 had been made by an efcheator, of fuch lands or tenements 

 as any man died feifed of, and all was fuppofed not to be 

 found by the office or inquiiition. 



Tliis w1-it was to inquire what more lands or tenements 

 the parties died feifed of. But it is now made ufelefs, by 

 taking; away the courts of wards and offices poll mortem. 

 QvR Servilia. See Pen quic fervitia. 

 QUjERENS non invenit plegium, a return made by 

 the (heriff opon a writ dlrefted to him with this claufe, 

 viz. Si A. fecirit B. fccurum de clamore fuo profequeiido, isfc. 

 F. N. B. 38. 



QUAERNES, in Geography, a town of Norway ; ^^ 

 miles N. of Romldal. 



QUjESTA, in our Ancient Writers, denotes an indul- 

 gence, or remiflion of penance, expofed to fale by the 

 popes. 



QUjESTIONARII, in onr Ancient Law Books, were 

 people who went about with indulgences from door to door, 

 defiring charity either for themfelves or others. 



Matt. Weft obferves, 1240, that the kuig, " Terram fuam 

 per papale quellionarios, depauperari, &c. permitit." 

 QU^STOR. SeeQuESTOR. 



QUjESTUS, in Law, is that eftate, or thofe cfFeds, 

 which a man hath by acquifition or purchafe ; in contradif- 

 tinftion to hareditas, which is what he hath by dcfcent. See 

 Acquest, and Goods. 



Glanv. lib. vii. " aut habet haereditatem tantum, vel 

 quaeftum tantum, aut hereditatem & quaeflum." 



QUAG, in Agriculture, a name given to any fort of wet, 

 fwampy, moraffy, or boggy fituation in land, which has a 

 tremulouo or fhaking feel under the foot, and which p>-o- 

 duces nothing but a coarfe gralfy herbage that is unfit for 

 the food of animals. Low as well as high grounds are fub- 

 jeft to fpots of this kind wherever water is confined and re- 

 tained near the furface. They are to be removed by proper 

 means of draining, and the application of folid earthy matters 

 of different kinds upon the furfaces of them, with the ufe 

 of rollers in order to confolidate the whole. See Bog and 

 Swamp. 



QUAGGA, in Zoology. See Equus. 

 QUAGLIATI, Paolo, in £;'oj/-a/'/iy, the mufic-mafter 

 of the celebrated traveller, Pietro della Valle, at Rome, in 

 the beginning of the 17th century. His difciple, della 

 Valle, fays, " that he was an excellent maeftro di cappelb, 

 who introduced a new fpecies of mufic into the Roman 

 churches, not only in compofitions for a fingle voice {oto«o- 

 £e), but for two, three, or four, and very often more voices, 

 in chorus, ending with a numerous crowd of many choirs or 

 chorufTes, finging together ; fpecimens of which may be 

 feen in many of his motets that have been fince printed. 

 And the mufic of my cart, or moveable-ftage, compofed 

 by the fame Quagliati, in my own room, chiefly in the man- 

 ner he found motl agreeable to me, and performed in mafl<s 

 throu.i^h the ftreets of Rome during the carnival of 1606, 

 was the firft attempt at an opera, or fecular drama in mufic, 



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\*hich had been heard in that city." See Oi'BRa, Rbci- 



TATIVK, and l*IKTKO UELI.A VaLI.E. 



QUAGMIRE, in Agriculture, the name of a fort of foft 

 miry fhaking or quaking bog, fvvanip, or morafs, which is fre- 

 quently and commonly met Vifitii in low hollow fituations, 

 where tlicre is none, or very little dcfcent, for the difcharge 

 of the Itagnant v\'ater or vvetnefs. They are formed in 

 many different ways according to the nature of the circum- 

 ftances which firft gave rife to them, and that of tfie places 

 in which they are found. The author of the " Treatife on 

 Landed Property" has remarked, that bcfides the common 

 moory quagmires or bogs, there is a fpecies which is con- 

 llantly charged with moiflure, yet does not accumulate a 

 thick covering of moory earth, owing probably, it is fup- 

 pofed, to the want of fertility in the water by wliich it 

 fed. Tliefe forts of quagmires are, in his opinion, for the 

 moll part, found in mountainous and hilly fituations. Other 

 kinds are occafionally feen on large peat moffes, and hollow 

 meadows, in fpots where the water is confined and kept 

 up nearly to their upper parts, and where there is much 

 decay of vegetable produftions on their furfaces, and the 

 reception of earthy materials from other places. Thefe 

 quagmires occupy large fpots of ground in many different 

 fituations, and are, of courfe, a great lofs to individuals 

 and the public, as little or nothing of any ufe is ever pro- 

 duced by them. (See MouAss.) They are, for the moll 

 part, capable of being readily drained by proper means, 

 a fort of improvement which ought never to be neglefted 

 where it can be performed with any chance of fuccefs. 



QUAHU, in Geography, a dillrift of Africa, on the 

 Gold Coafl, in the kingdom of Acambou, or Aquamboe; 

 which fee. 



QUAHVITLA, in Botany, a name ufed by fome au- 

 thors for the tree from which the refin commonly called gum 

 copal is procured. 



QUAICHA, in Geography, a town of Africa, in Sen- 

 naar ; 38 miles E.S.E. of Gieflim. 



QUAIL, CoTURNix, orTetrao coturnix of Linna:us, in 

 Ornithology, X.\ii\<idl\. of all the birds of the gallinaceous kind. 

 They have, however, the genius of the cock kind, and may 

 be bred to fight like our game cocks. 



This was an old cuftom among the Athesians, and is ftill 

 kept up in fome parts of Italy, and in Afia. 



QOails are birds of pafl'age, fome entirely quitting our 

 iOand, others fhifting their quarters from one county to an- 

 other, and fheltering themfelves among the weeds near the 

 fea-fide ; with us theyfrequent the corn-fields, and fome- 

 times the meadows. They begin to fing in April, and make 

 their nefts in the month of May, building on the ground, 

 and feldom lay more than than (\% or feven whitifh eggs, 

 marked with ragged ruft-coloured fpots. 



Quails are to be taken by means of the call during their 

 whole wooing time, which lafts from April to Auguft. Tlie 

 proper times for ufing the call arc at fun-rifi;ig, at nine 

 o'clock in the morning, at three in the afternoon, and at 

 fun-fet ; for thefe are the n.atural times of the quail's call- 

 ing. The notes of the cock and hen-quail are very different, 

 and the fportfman who experts to fucceed in the taking 

 of them, muft be expert in both ; for when the cock calls, the 

 anfvver is to be made in the hen's note ; and when the hen 

 calls, the anfwer is to be made in the cock's. By this 

 means they will come up to the perfon, fo that he may, with 

 great eafe, throw the net over them, and take them. If a 

 cock-quail be fingle, on hearing tiie hen's note he will imme- 

 diately come ; but if he have a hen already with him, he 

 will not forf.ike her. Sometimes, though only one quail 

 anfwers to the call, there will three or four come up ; 



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