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Quibkron Bay, a bay on the coast of the above peninsula;jnemorablcHn British history, as tlie-scene of a glorious victoryobtained by the British fleet under Adm. Hawke over the French under Adm. Conilans in 1759.
QUICARO, an island in the Pacilic. Ocean, near the coast ofVeragua, about 20 miles long, and broad. Lon. 86. 0. W. Lat.7.2LN.
QUICK, in botany. See Cratagus.
Quick, or Quickset Hedge, among gardeners, denote alllive hedges, of whatever sort of plants they are composed, to dis-tinguish them from dead hedges ; but in a more strict sense of theword, it is restrained to those planted with the hawthorn, underwhich name those young plants or sets are sold by the nursery-gardeners who raise them for sale, bee Hedge.
QUICKLIME is a general name for all calcareous substanceswhen deprived of their fixed air ; such as chalk, limestone, oyster-shells, Sue. calcined. See Lime, and Moktar.
QUICKSILVER, or MERCURY. See Mercury.
QUID PRO QUO, in law, what for what, denotes the givingone tiling of value for another; or the mutual consideration andperformance of both parlies to a contract.
Quid pro quo, or Qui fro quo, is also used in physic toexpress a mistake in the physician’s b'll, where quid is wrote forquo, i. e. one thing for another: or of the apothecary in readingquid for quo, and giving the patient the wrong medicine. lieneethe term is in general extended to all blunders or mistakes com-mitted in medicine, either m the prescription, the preparation, orapplication of remedies.
QUIDDITY, or QUIDDITAS. is derived hence, that it isby the essence of a thing that it is tale quid, such a thing, andnut another. Hence what is essential to a thing is said to be•quidditive.
QUIESCENT, at rest, in contradistinction to motion.
QUIETARE, in law, a term frequently met with in old■deeds and conveyances, signifying to acquit, release, or dis-charge.
QUIETISM, a term used for the doctrine of the Quietists .See next article.
QUI ETISTS, a religious sect, famous towards the close of the17th century. They were so called from a kind of absolute restand inaction, which they supposed the soul to he in, when arrivedat that state of perfection, which they called the unitive life; inwhich state they imagined the soul wholly employed in contem-*plating its God , to whose influence it was entirely submissive ; sothat he could turn and drive it where and how he would. In thisstate, the soul no longer needs prayers, hymns, &c. being laid, asit were, in the bosom and between the arms of its God , in whomit is in a manner swallowed up. Molinos, a Spanish priest, is thereputed author of Quietism ; though the Illuminati in Spain hadcertainly taught something like it before.
QUIETUS, inlaw, is the same as freed or acquitted; beingused by the clerk of the pipe, and auditors in the exchequer, intheir discharges given to accounts; which generally conclude withthese words, abinde reccssit quietus, and is termed a quietus est;and being granted to a sheriff, discharges him of all accounts antidemands due to the king.
QUILLS, the large leathers taken out of the end of the wing ofa goose, crow, &c.
'Quills are denominated from the order in which they are fixed inthe wing; the second and third quills being the best for writing, as.they have the largest and roundest barrels. Crow quills are eiiietlyused for drawing.' To harden a quill that is soft, thrust the barrel jinto hot ashes, stirring it till it is soft,'then taking it put, press it jalmost flat upon jour knee with the back of a penknife, and after-wards reduce it to a roominess uith your lingers. If you have anumber to harden, set water and aluin ever the (ire, and whileit is boiling dip the barrels of the quills for a minute, and then laythem by.
QUlLLEBOEUF, a town of France , in the department of theEure, on the Seine , 71 miles N. of Tout Audemer, and 13 N. \V.of Evreux.
QUILMANCI, or QUILMANCY, a town of Africa , on thecoast of Zangucbar, in the kingdom of Melinda. Lon. 39. 40. E.Lat. 3. 30. S.
mouth of the Coavo. It extei.ds 180 miles from N. to S. but itsextent inland to the W. is not known. 'The climate is temperate,and the soil fertile, abounding with corn, rice, fruits, and goodpasture, where great numbers of cattle are fed. Poultry wild andtame are also numerous, and fish abound on the coast. It was firstdiscovered by the Portuguese in 1498.
Quiloa, tlie capital of the above kingdom, is seated oil thecoast of Zanguebar, 300 miles N. of Mosambique. Lon. 39. 9. E.Lat. y. 30. S.
QUILON, COULAN, or COY LAN, a country of Hindootan, on the coast of Malabar, inhabited chieily by Gentoos.
Qujlox, Coulosj, or Calicoulan, a town in the above terrhtory, 14 miles N. N. W. of Anjenga, on die coast of Travancore ,Lon. 75. 30. K. Lat. 8. 30. N.
QUILTING, a method of sewing two pieces of silk, linen, orstuff, on each other, with wool or cotton between them; by-working them all over in the form of chequer or diamond-work,or in '(lowers. The same name is also given to the stuff soworked.
QUIMPER, a town of France, in the department of Finisterre ,and late province of Bretagne, 30 miles S. E. of Brest . Lon. 4. 2.W. Lat. 47. 58. N.
QUIMPKRLAY, or QUIMPER LI?', a town of France , ii,llje department of Finisterre, late Bretagne , 7 miles from the sea,and 20 from Quimper .
QUINAR1US was a small Roman coin, equal to half the de-narius, and consequently worth about three pence three farthingsof our money. It was called quinarius, because it contained thevalue of live ases, in the sanye manner as the denarius was namedfrom ils containing ten.
QUINCE, in botany. See Pyrus .
QUI NCIi AM ALA, in belany, a genus of die pentandria mo-nogynia class and order. Calyx inferior, live-toothed ; corollatubular, superior; anthers sessile ; seed one. 'There is only onespecies; viz. Q. Chilensis, a native of Chili.
QUINCUNX ORDER, in gardening, a plantation of trees,disposed originally in a square ; and consisting of five trees, oneat each corner, and a fifth in the middle.
QUINDECAGON, in geometry, a plain figure with fifteensides and fifteen angles; which, if the sides be all equal, is termeda regular quindecagon, and irregular when otherwise. The sideof a regular quindecagon inscribed in a circle, is equal in powerto the half difference betw een tlie side of the equilateral triangleand the side of the pentagon, inscribed in the same circle'; alsotlie difference of the perpendiculars let fall on both sides, takestogether.
QUIN DECEMVIRI, in Roman antiquity, a college of fif-teen magistrates, whose business it was to preside over the sacri-fices.
QUING F.Y, a town of France, in the department of the Doubs ,and late province of Franche Comte . It is 12 miles S.W. of Be-san^'on, and 10 W. of Ornans.
QUINQUAG KNAR IUS, in Roman antiquity, an officer whohad tlie command of fifty men.
QU1NQU AG ESIM A, [Lat.j Qwinquagesima surniav, so call-ed because it is the fiftieth day before Easter, reckoned’by wholenumbers; Shrove Sutidav.
QUINQUARTICULAR CONTROVERSY, the contro-versy about the five articles, which divided the reformers in Hol-land in tlie seventeenth century. Bishop Overall laboured muchto settle it; and corresponded witii Vossius ami Grolius on thesubject. His letters are preserved in the Epistoiae Prai.tantium\ irormn. ‘
QUIN QUA! HI A, or QU1NQUATH US, was a festivalkept at Rome in honour of Minerva, which began on tlie 18thof March, or as otiiers will have it, on the lytli, and lasted fivedavs.
'QfyINQUELOCULAR, consisting of five places or divi-sions.
QUINQUENNALIS, ill Homan antiquity, a magistrate in tliecolonies and municipal cities ol that empire, whu had much thesame office as the guide at Rome .
QU1NQUEREMIS, in the naval architecture of the ancients,a name given to a galley which hud five rows of oars. 'They di-vided their vessels in general into monderota and polycrota. The
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