List of Old English Words in the OED/Q

Old English	sp	English
Quain	vb	To waste away, lament, bewail, bemoan.
Quake	n	A trembling or shaking. 2. an earthquake, or trembling of the ground with force.
Quake	vb	To shake, quaver, tremble, to wave to and fro. 2. of things: to shake tremble, be agitated as a result of an internal shock, internal convulsion or natural instability. 3. of person, or parts of the body: to shake, tremble through cold, fear. 4. to cause to shake. 5. quaver, quiver, shake, shiver, shudder, tremble, vibrate, waver.
Quake	adj	Of or, pertaining to an earthquake.
Quake	phr	"Quake At" - become fearful of.
Quake	phr	"Quake in One's Boots" - be afraid.
Quake-bellied	adj	Wanting in courage.
Quake-belly	adj	Pot-belly.
Quakeful	adj	Causing fear or shaking.
Quake-ooze	n	Soft ooze.
Quaker	n	A member of the Christian group, the "Society of Friends" founded by George Fox.
Quakerdom	n	The world or community of the "Society of Friends".
Quakerish	adj	Somewhat fearful and trembling. 2. resembling or characteristic of the "Society of Friends".
Quakerishly	adv	In a fearful, quaking or shaky manner.
Quakerly	adv	In the manner or like Quakers.
Quaker-meeting	n	A meeting of the Society of Friends. 2. any silent meeting.
Quakily	adv	In a shaky, tremulous manner.
Quakiness	n	The state or condition of being fearful.
Quaking	n	Shaking, trembling,
Quakingly	adv	In a shaking, trembling, fearful way.
Quaking-grass	n	A popular name for grasses of the Genus: Briza, esp. "Briza media."
Quaky	adj	Inclined to quake, shake, tremble. 2. shaky, tremulous.
Quale	n	Death, destruction, mortality
Quale-house	n	Torture-house
Quale-sithe	n	Death from pestilence
Qualm	n	General or widespread mortality of men or animals. 2 death, sickness, a fit of sickness, illness, disaster, utter-qualm: total disaster. 3. plague, pestilence, loss, damage. 4. softer sense: feeling of faintness, swoon, uneasiness. 5. scruple or pricks, twinge of conscience, qualm-sick, compunction, moral conduct; a sudden feeling of doubt, or sensation of misgiving. 6. a sudden feeling of nausea, or sickness. 7. a sudden sinking of heart.
Qualm-house	n	A place of death, a place of execution, a qualm-stow,
Qualminess	n	Condition of qualm, qualmy, nauseous
Qualming	n	The state of having a qualm.
Qualming	adj	Characterized by or having a qualm: nauseated, sickened, doubting, misgiving.
Qualmish	adj	Of persons: affected with a qualm or qualms; tending or liable to be so affected. 2. of feelings, etc.: of the nature of a qualm; hence quamishly,
Qualmishly	adv	In a qualmish manner.
Qualmless	adj	Without misgivings, scruples, pricks of conscience,
Qualmlessness	n	The quality or condition of having no qualms; lacking qualms or misgivings.
Qualm-sick	adj	Nausea.
Qualmly	adv	In a manner, occurring, of a qualm.
Quaver	n	A trembling shake; quiver. 2. a trembling of the voice, as in speaking or singing; quiver. 3. (music) an eighth note, drawn as a crotchet (quarter note) with a tail.
Quaver	vb	)To shake in a trembling manner; quiver. 2, to use the voice in a trembling manner, as in speaking or singing. 3. to utter quaveringly.
Quean	n	A young woman, girl, lass usu. one who is healthy and robustly appealing. 2.Bold, impudent, ill-behaved woman; hussy, jade, harlot, strumpet, shanky-ho. 3. of a woman, used in disparagement.
Quean	phr	"All Queaned Up" - to dress, although not invariably effeminate so. 2. also 'All queened Up'.
Queed	adj	OE. bad, evil, wicked, hostile; qued. 2. the Devil, the Evil One. 3. dung, filth, ordure.
Queal	vb	O.E. cwellan; to faint away, to die.
Queen	n	Lady who is wife of the king. 2. a female ruler of a state; female monarch. 3. goddesses of the ancient religions or myths. 4. a female person whose rank or preeminence is comparable to that of a queen; a woman, or something personified asa woman, that is foremost or preeminence in any aspect,such as a "Film Queen". 5. the perfect female of bees, wasp or ants. 6. woman, wife, "honoured" woman. 7. a chess piece. 8. male homosexual esp. feminine and ostentatious one).
Queen	vb	To reign as a queen. 2. to behave in an imperious or pretentious manner: "to queen it."
Queen	phr	"Queen It" - dominate, take control (said of a woman).
Queen	phr	"Queen of Hearts" - a playing card. 2. a woman who has the adoration of the public.
Queen	phr	"Queen of Heaven" - the moon.
Queen	phr	"Queen of the Night" - the moon.
Queen apple	n	An early variety of apple.
Queenbee	n	The only fertile female in a colony or hive of social insects, such as bees, ants, and termites, from the eggs of which the entire colony develops. 2. dominant female in various organizations and groups, such as among female prisoners.
Queen cake	n	A small currant cake
Queencraft	n	Craft or skill in policy on the part of a queen.
Queendom	n	The dominion, and character of a queen.
Queengold	n	A former revenue of the king's consort, consisting of one-tenth on certain fines paid to the king.
Queenhood	n	The state and personality of a queen. 2. the state, or status of a queen. 3. the dignity of, character becoming a queen.
Queening	n	Consort or widow of a king. 2. the act of giving birth in the feline. 3. a female monarch. 4. a woman considered preeminent in a particular field.
Queenish	adj	Like a queen; regal. 2. like a drag queen.
Queenliness	adj.	In the manner or way of a queen. 2. having the quality of being queenly. 3. characteristic of a queen. 4. stateliness. 5. eminent among women in attraction or power.
Queenless	adj	Without a queen.
Queenlike	adj	Resembling a female monarch or some aspect of one; regal, majestic. 2. resembling a queen-bee or some aspect of.
Queenly	adj	Belonging or appropriate to a queen; resembling a queen or like a queen, queenlike.
Queen-mother	n	The queen dowager who is the mother of the reigning sovereign.
Queen-of-the-meadow	n	Meadowsweet.
Queenright	n	Of a colony of bees with a queen in the hive.
Queens	n	A New York city borough, named for Catherine of Braganza, queen of English King Charles II.
Queen's bench	n	A division of the High Court in the UK.
Queenship	n	Dignity and office of a queen
Queen's English	n	(Received pronunciation) is traditionally based on educated or formal speech in Southern England.
Queen's Highway	n	A public road, regarded as being under the sovereign's protection.
Queenship	n	Dignity and office of the queen.
Queen snake	n	Regina septemvittata a species of nonvenomous semiaquatic snake, a member of the subfamily Natricinae of the family Colubridae. The species is endemic to North America.
Queenware	n	A cream coloured kind of Wedgewood crockery.
Queen wasp	n	The perfect female of wasps, bees or ants.
Queenwidow	n	A queen dowager.
Queeny	adj	A flamboyant or effeminate man. 2. a spoiled princess, usually spoiled by her father and/or her grandfather.
Queeny	adv	In an effeminate manner.
Quell	n	Murder, killing, slaying, slaughter, destruction, quelling.
Quell	vb	To kill, slay, put to death, destroy person or animal. 2. to dash out, knock down, to die, to put an end to, extinguish, vanquish. 3. crush, overcome, force down, reduce to subjection or submission, subdue, overpower. 4. to well out, flow.
Queller	n	One who kills, destroys; subdues, conquers etc.
Quelling	n	The act by which something is quelled, kill, knocked down, subdued, or overpower.
Quelling	adj	That quells.
Quelm	vb.	To torment, to kill, destroy.
Quelm-bearing	adj.	Deadly, mortiferous, death-bearing, fatal
Quelmer	n	One who torments; kills, destroys, overcomes, subdues, etc.
Quelmness	n	Torment, pain, anguish, incruciation.
Quelmstead	n	A place of death; a place of execution.
Queme	vb	To please, satisfy. 2. to take, accept. 3. of persons, to please, gratify, to act as to please. 4. of things, to be acceptable or agreeable; to be suitable and fitting; to join or fit closely, to slip in.
Queme	adj	Pleasing, agreeable, acceptable as a person. 2. of a pleasing appearance, beautiful, precious, fair, neat, tidy. 3. closed against or protected from the wind, snug, unruffled, smooth. 4. fitting, suitable, fit, convenient, handy, close at hand. 5. of persons, friendly or well-disposed; skilled, clever, smart, active.
Quemed	adj	Pleased, satisfied.
Quemeful	adj	Pleasing, agreeable, kind, gracious.
Queming	n	The act of pleasing, satisfying. 2. satisfaction, mitigation, pleasing.
Quemely	adv	Pleasantly agreeable or becomingly of manner, neatly, gently, smoothly.
Quemeness	n	Pleasure, satisfaction.
Quench	vb	Old English -cwencan (in acwencan ‘put out, extinguish’), of Germanic origin. To put out a fire, put out anything that gives light. 2. to destroy the sight of the eye. 3. to cause something to cease. 4. to cool, slake, to slake thirst. 5. to stifle, suppress feeling. 6. to destroy, kill. oppress, crust. 7. to quash, squash, to bring to an end, to cease to burn, to put out.
Quenching	n	The act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning. 2. the slaking of thirst. 3. the stifling of feelings. 4. quashing, oppressing, ending.
Quenching	adj	Extinguishing; causing to stop burning. 2. slaking thirst. 3. the putting out of light. 4. quashing; destroying, stifling.
Quenchless	adj	Unquenchable, inextinguishable. 2. insatiable, irrepressible.
Quenchlessly	adv	Without quenching.
Quenchlessness	n	The state or condition of being incapable of being quenched.
Quencher	n	One who quenches
Quench-fire	n	A fire-retardant, extinguishing.
Querken	vb	To choke, suffocate.
Quern	n	A grinder, a quern-stone, a mill-stone.
Quernhouse	n	Millhouse; grinding house.
Quernsong	n	('Grotta saungr') a lay of pagan times. 2. a song composed or sung while operating a quern.
Quern-stone	n	Either of two circular stones forming a quern, found at prehistoric sites from neolithic times onwards.
Quetch	vb	To shake, brandish, to drive, chase 2. to speak, say, tell, utter, declare, call. 3. of things: to shake terribly. 4. to stir, to move from one place to another, to go, to run, to hasten. 5. to hasten, to move the body or any part of it. 6. to shrink, wince, twitch with pain, "quetching, or quitching the skin". 7. to utter a word usu. negatively
Quetching	n	Moving, shaking, chasing, sounding, hastening.
Quethe	vb	To bestow, to bequeath. 2. to say or declare.
Quethe	n	Legacy, bequeath. 2. a speech, sound, address, cry.
Quething	n	Bequeathing.
Quething-word	n	Last farewell.
Quick	n	Soft tender flesh. 2. the growing part of a fingernail, or toenail. 2. the living; those who are living.
Quick	adj	Living, endowed with life, in contrast to what is naturally inanimate. 2. characterized by the presence of life. 3. alive, growing, flourishing. 4. "quick with child," pregnant, esp. in the early stages of pregnancy. 5. alive, instinct with life (life, soul, feeling). 6. having the freshness of life, productive of some ores. 7. burning strongly, brisk fire. 8. lively, full in speech; sharp,caustic in writing. 9. busy, full of activity. 10. readily inflammable. 11. brisk, effervescent of wine and wines. 12. sharp, pungent in smell and taste. 13. of air, light, piercing, sharp.
Quick	adj	Mentally active, alert. 2. keen or rapid in function. 3. hasty, impatient, hot-tempered. 4. moving with speed, rapid, swift. 5. happening or done over a short time. 6. busy, full of activity. 7. expeditious, brisk, rapid, swift. 8. characterized by rapidity or readiness of movement, action, nimble, prompt. 9. alert, sensitive, perceptive. 10. responding readily to impressions; excitable.
Quick	vb	To quicken. 2. to amalgamate surfaces prior to gilding or silvering by dipping them into a solution of mercury or nitric acid.
Quick	phr	"As Quick as Lightning" - very swift, sudden or deft.
Quick	phr	"Be Quickened" - to be or restore life (soul).
Quick	phr	"Galled to the Quick" - irritated, galled, hurt deeply.
Quick	phr	"Have a Quick One" - have a final drink (alcoholic) before you leave.
Quick	phr	"In Quick Time" - as soon as possible, soon, almost immediately, with a very quick response.
Quick	phr	"Quick and the Dead" - all souls alive and dead.
Quick	phr	"Quick and Quething" - alive and speaking.
Quick	phr	"Quick as a Cat" - the speed and agility of a cat in pouncing on small moving things, like mice, is legendary. 2. also applied to persons who are mentally alert and catch on quickly. 2. swiftly as a cat is also a similar saying.
Quick	phr	"Quick as a Wink" - quite fast: the wink of an eye takes but a second.
Quick	phr	"Quick as Lightning" - very fast, arrow fast; with lightning speed. 2.quick as a flash.
Quick	phr	"Quick of the Mark" - fast to act or react.
Quick	phr	"Quick on One's Feet" -clever to take an advantage of a situation.
Quick	phr	"Quick on the Draw" - rapid in response to a challenge; act precipitately, smart, mentally alert; opposite of "slow on the draw.'
Quick	phr	"Quick on the Uptake" - mentally alert, quick to grasp information, understand the meaning of, suggestion, hint.
Quick	phr	"Quick with Child" - said of a female in the stage of pregnancy at which the motion of the foetus is felt.
Quick	phr	"Stung to the Quick" - cut to the quick.
Quick	phr	"The Quick" - the living.
Quick	phr	"To the Quick" - cut to the tender underlying flesh. 2. to the level of living tissue. 3fig. to injure emotionally; very deeply, at one's most sensitive level of feeling.
Quick-answered	adj	Quickly and cheekily answered.
Quick-beam	n	The Rowan tree.
Quickborn	adj	Born live, as 'his own twin, quick-born inthe same womb'.
Quick-bread	n	Any bread, biscuits, etc., whose leavening agent making immediate baking possible.
Quick-break	n	A current switch equipped with a spring or other device to permit rapid contact-opening independent of the operator.
Quicken	n	Couch-grass or quitch; also the underground stems of this and other grasses 2 the mountain ash or rowan tree. 3. the juniper.
Quicken	vb	To give or restore vigour to a person or thing. 2. to excite, inspire, stimulate. 3. to kindle (a fire); cause or help to burn up. 4. to make a liquid more sharp or stimulant. 5. to hasten accelerate. give more speed to; become faster. 6. to receive life, revive, become living. 7. to reach the stage ogf pregnancy at which the child shows signs of life. 8. to come into a state comparable to life. 9. to become bright.
Quicken	phr	Quicken Up" - become, make much faster; speed up pace, business, movement.
Quickened	adj	Done faster or quickly.
Quickener	n	One who does things quickly or without delay.
Quickening	n	The process of showing signs of life. 2. a biological process, organic process - a process occurring in living organism. 3. the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels the movements of the fetus. 4. degree, stage, level, point - a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process. 5. maternity, pregnancy, gestation - the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus. 6. the act of accelerating; increasing the speed, speedup, acceleration hurrying, speeding, speed - changing location rapidly.
Quickeningly	adv	So as to quick or bring to life, animatingly. 2. so as to speed up.
Quickening-up	n	Fact of becoming, make much faster; speed up pace, business, movement.
Quickens	n	Quitch, a weed.
Quick-eyed	adj	Sharp of sight and vision.
Quick-fire	n	Shots or shooting in rapid succession.
Quick-firing	adj	Able to fire shots rapidly and continuously.
Quickflesh	n	of the flesh or parts of the body.
Quick-footed	adj	Nimble footed.
Quick-freeze	vb	Freeze food rapidly so preserve its natural qualities.
Quick-grass	n	Couch-grass.
Quick-handed	adj	Nimble-handed, dexterous, skilled in things of the hand.
Quick-hedge	n	A hedge of living plants.
Quickie	n	See 'quicky'
Quickish	adj	In a somewhat quick manner.
Quicklime	n	Calcium oxide.
Quick-line	n	Asbestos, thrumstone, stoneflax, earthflax, devil's dust.
Quick-one	n	A final alcoholicdrink before one leaves.
Quickly	adv.	In a living or lively manner, rapidly, hastily, speedily. 2. with animation or vigour. 3. sensitively
Quickly-gone	adj	Disappearing a flash.
Quickly-growing	adj	Growing rapidly.
Quickly-speaking	adj	Speaking in a rapid rate.
Quick-minded	adj	With a quick or ready mind.
Quickness	n	Life, vitality, vital principle. 2. animation, briskness, vigour, freshness. 3. liveliness, readiness or acuteness of feeling; perception or apprehension. 4. speed, rapidity of action or motion. 5. hastiness of temper. 6. sharpness; pungency or acidity of taste. 7. sharpness of speech
Quick-one	n	A quick, single alcoholic drink, esp. taken to refresh one before dinner.
Quicksand	n	A bed of extremely wet and loose yielding sand. 2. fig.: applied to things (more rarely persons) of an absolutely treacherous and yielding character.
Quick-sandlike	adj	Resembling or characteristic of quicksand.
Quicksandy	adj	Resembling or like quicksand.
Quick-seller	n	an article, esp. a book which sells quickly or is in high demand.
Quick-set	adj	Live slips or cutting placed in the ground.
Quickship	n	Quickness.
Quick-sighted	adj	Having quick sight; sharpness, awareness of vision. 2. being argus-eyed, keen-sighted, sharp-eyed. 3. having the ability to perceive or understand ; keen in discernment.
Quick-sightedness	n	The state or condition of being quick-sighted. 2. perception, understanding, discernment.
Quicksilver	n	Metallic mercury, widely used in metallurgy, industry, arts. 2. an amalgam of tin used for the backs of mirrors.
Quick-silver	phr	"A Quick-silver Mind" - a very alert and intelligent mind.
Quick-silverish	adj	Resembling or somewhat like quick silver.
Quick-silverness	n	Liveliness, volatility.
Quicksmart	adj	Quick.
Quicksmart	adv	Quickly.
Quick-starts	n	Rubber soled sneakers; popular for those who wish to make a speedy get away.
Quick-step	n	In a normal marching pace of 120 steps per minute. 2. a march or dance in rapid tempo; a quick march.
Quick-stepping	n	The action or act of marching at 120 steps per minute.
Quick-talking	adj	Fast talking; speaking very rapidly. 2. fast talking, persuading, misleading, or obtain with a smooth line of talk. 3. confidence-trickery.
Quick-thorn	n	A thorn bush used for hedging because of its quickness of growth.
Quick-time	n	A fast marching pace of 120 thirty inch steps per minute.
Quick-water	n	A stream or that part of the stream having a swift current.
Quickwell	adj	Of flowing, pure, not stagnant water.
Quick-witted	adj	Having a quick or ready wit, sharp, mentally alert, intelligent, mind; esp, used to alert danger; make an effective reply. 2. clever; quick of wit, quick to react and/or respond .
Quick-wittedly	adv	In a quick-witted manner.
Quick-wittedness	n	Mental alertness, sharp, keen mind. 2. intelligence revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay.
Quick-worded	adj	Hasty in speech or writing.
Quick-work	n	The part of a ship under the water, when laden.
Quick-worker	n	A successful womanizer who achieves his seductions quickly.
Quicky	adj	A cheap firm. 2. quickie, any done hastily as a short cuts or makeshift methods. 3.quick alcoholic drink.
Quitch	n	Couch-grass
Quiver	adj	See quaver. Middle English: from Old English cwifer ‘nimble, quick’. The initial qu- is probably symbolic of quick movement (as in quaver and quick) 2. for arrow case, see 'cocker' from Old English coccor.
Quiver	vb	To shake or move with slight and tremulous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver.
Quoth	vb	To say; bequeath. 2. said or spoke; uttered.
Quotha	int	Archaic: (quoth he) indeed! forsooth! - usually in slight contempt.