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QUAAYKER GRACE.—Vide Shiver Grace.

QUAG, or QUAGGLE.—To shake.

"Cant 'e veel this yer boggy ground quag as us walks awver 't."

QUAMES.—Qualms.

QUANDĀIRY.—A predicament; a fix.

"I be in a gurt quandāiry, an' zo be come to ax 'e to tell I what to do."

QUANE.—The title of Her Majesty is so pronounced.

QUARREL.—A small diamond shaped pane of glass as fixed in cottage windows.

QUAT.—Used sometimes instead of "squat."

QUATCH.—To keep absolute silence as regards a certain subject, whether that subject may be mooted before one, or whether others may try to extract information respecting it.

QUEASY.—Rather sick.

"I was a bit queasy this mamin', an' zo led in bed till ater breakvast."

QUEER-STRATE.—In a difficulty; in trouble.

"Thee'll vind theezelf in Queer-strate if 'e dwoant be moor keervul what 'e be a-tawkin about."

QUICKS.—The young cuttings planted to form a quickset hedge.

QUID.—To suck vigorously.

QUILT.—To swallow a lump of something with very palpable distension of the throat.

To whip.

QUILTIN'.—A beating. It may have been observed that the number of words relative to corporal punishment is large, indicating that in by-gone days it was perhaps not usual "to spare the rod and spoil the child."