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Quacha
The quagga.

Quack
Pertaining to or characterised by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack med (more...)

Quackery
Deliberate misrepresentation of the ability of a substance or device for the prevention or treatment of disease. We may (more...)

Quack Grass
See Quitch grass.

Quack Medicine
A compound advertised falsely as curative of a certain disease or diseases.

Quacksalver
One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mo (more...)

Quad
Unit of energy equal to a Quadrillion BTUs (10^15) or roughly one exajoule.

Quadrable
That may be sqyared, or reduced to an equivalent square; said of a surface when the area limited by (more...)

Quadragene
An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance.

Quadragesima
The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent. Quadragesima Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent, about forty days before Ea (more...)

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