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quail

verb intransitive
To sink into dejection; to languish; to fail in spirits.

quail

To fade; to wither. Obs.

quail

verb intransitive
To curdle; to coagulate; as milk.

quail

verb transitive
To crush; to depress; to sink; to subdue.

quail

noun
A bird of the genus Tetrao or grouse kind, or according to Latham’s arrangement, of the genus Perdix, in which he comprehends the partridge and quail. In New England, the name is applied to a peculiar species of the perdix, which is called partridge in the middie states, but it is neither the partridge nor quail of Europe.