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A Writer's Dictionary:

quail Definition


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quail1
noun
    quail, quails
    1. Any of several small migratory game birds of the partridge family.
Etymology: 14c: from French quaille.




quail2
verb
    intr
    quailed, quailing
    1. To lose courage; to be apprehensive with fear; to flinch.
      Thesaurus: cower, recoil, blanch, back away, shrink, tremble, flinch.
Etymology: 15c.



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