Index of English words, starting with "qu"

(1) - Quit (v. i.) To away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.
(2) - Quit (a.) To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake; as, to quit work; to quit the place; to quit jesting.
(3) - Quit (a.) To carry through; to go through to the end.
(4) - Quit (a.) To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively.
(5) - Quit (a.) To discharge, as an obligation or duty; to meet and satisfy, as a claim or debt; to make payment for or of; to requite; to repay.
(6) - Quit (a.) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit.
(7) - Quit (a.) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
(8) - Quit (imp. & p. p.) of Quit
(9) - Quit (v.) Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.
(10) - Quit (n.) Any one of numerous species of small passerine birds native of tropical America. See Banana quit, under Banana, and Guitguit.

(1) - Quitch (n.) Figuratively: A vice; a taint; an evil.
(2) - Quitch (n.) Same as Quitch grass.

(1) - Quitclaim (v. t.) To release or relinquish a claim to; to release a claim to by deed, without covenants of warranty against adverse and paramount titles.
(2) - Quitclaim (n.) A release or relinquishment of a claim; a deed of release; an instrument by which some right, title, interest, or claim, which one person has, or is supposed to have, in or to an estate held by himself or another, is released or relinquished, the grantor generally covenanting only against persons who claim under himself.

(1) - Quite (a.) To a great extent or degree; very; very much; considerably.
(2) - Quite (a.) Completely; wholly; entirely; totally; perfectly; as, the work is not quite done; the object is quite accomplished; to be quite mistaken.
(3) - Quite (v. t. & i.) See Quit.