quail
11quail — Ⅰ. quail [1] ► NOUN (pl. same or quails) ▪ a small short tailed game bird, typically with brown camouflaged plumage. ORIGIN Old French quaille, from Latin coacula. Ⅱ. quail [2] ► VERB …
12quail — quail1 [kwāl] vi. [ME quailen, prob. < OFr coaillier < L coagulare, to COAGULATE] to draw back in fear; lose heart or courage; cower quail2 [kwāl] n. pl. quails or quail [ME quaille < OFr < ML cuacula, of echoic orig.] any of a number …
13quail — vb *recoil, shrink, flinch, wince, blench Analogous words: cower, cringe (see FAWN): falter, waver, vacillate, *hesitate: quake, quaver, tremble, shudder (see SHAKE) …
14quail — [v] cower, shrink blanch, blench, cringe, droop, faint, falter, flinch, have cold feet*, quake, recoil, shake, shudder, start, tremble, wince; concepts 35,149,195 Ant. face, meet …
15Quail — Taxobox name = Quail image caption = Common Quail regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Galliformes familia = Phasianidae subdivision ranks = Genera subdivision = * Coturnix * Anurophasis * Perdicula * Ophrysia dagger; See… …
16quail — quail1 quaillike, adj. /kwayl/, n., pl. quails, (esp. collectively) quail. 1. a small, migratory, gallinaceous game bird, Coturnix coturnix, of the Old World. 2. any of several other birds of the genus Coturnix and allied genera. 3. any of… …
17quail — [[t]kwe͟ɪl[/t]] quails, quailing, quailed (quail can also be used as the plural form.) 1) N COUNT A quail is a type of small bird which is often shot and eaten. I ve shot hundreds of quail with that gun. N UNCOUNT Quail is the meat of this bird… …
18quail — I UK [kweɪl] / US noun Word forms quail : singular quail plural quails or quail a) [countable] a small bird that people shoot and eat b) [uncountable] this bird eaten as food II UK [kweɪl] / US verb [intransitive] Word forms quail : present tense …
19quail — I n. a bevy, covey of quail II v. (d; intr.) ( to lose courage ) to quail at, before (we quailed at the thought of getting lost in the forest) * * * [kweɪl] covey of quail before (we quailed at the thought of getting lost in the forest) (d;… …
20quail — {{11}}quail (n.) c.1300, quayle, from O.Fr. quaille, perhaps via M.L. quaccula (Cf. Prov. calha, It. quaglia, O.Sp. coalla), from a Germanic source (Cf. O.H.G. quahtala quail, Ger. Wachtel), imitative of the bird s cry. Or the English word might… …
