Quail

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To waste away; to fade, to wither.
2. fiil To daunt or frighten (someone).

   “Death dvvels vvithin vs, and if gentle Peace / Diſcend not ſoone, our ſorrovves to ſurceaſe, / Latium (alreadie quaild) vvill be deſtroyd.”

3. fiil To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful.

   “Mr. Utterson had already quailed at the name of Hyde; but when the stick was laid before him, he could doubt no longer: broken and battered as it was, he recognized it for one that he had himself presented many years before to Henry Jekyll.”

4. fiil Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to give way.

   “Therewith his ſturdie corage ſoone was quayd, / And all his ſences were with ſuddein dread diſmayd.”

5. isim Any of various small game birds of the genera Coturnix, Anurophasis or Perdicula in the Old World family Phasianidae or of the New World family Odontophoridae.

   “Quail require little water, so there is no point to putting in a guzzler if there is any permanent water within travel range.”

6. isim The meat from this bird eaten as food.
7. isim A prostitute.

   “Her's Agamemnon, an honeſt fellow inough and one that loues quailes, but hee has not ſo much braine as eare-wax, […]”

8. fiil To curdle or coagulate, as milk does.

   “[Laser is given] to such as haue supped off and drunk quailed milke, that is cluttered within their stomack.”

9. özel isim A surname from Scottish Gaelic.