[References are usually to volume, page, and stanza.]
quaich V, 264 a, 3: cup or bowl (Irish cuach).
quarrelld p.p., I, 367 f., (Child #41 A) 12, 20: quarrelled with, found fault with.
quarry IV, 26, (Child #193 A) (Child #193 B) 6: of living game, in the modern way (in an adulterated ballad). See querry.
quarterer IV, 152, B (Child #212 B) 9, 10: lodger.
queed II, 423, A 1: gueed, good is required; queed could mean only ill.
queen, quean, queyne, quen, quien I, 69, (Child #5 A) 38, 39; 302, A 11; 303, C 6: woman. II, 141, (Child #67 C) 11; V, 272, 8, 10: concubine.
queer, quir IV, 465, 39; V, 224, 27: choir.
queet, quit, cweet IV, 190, (Child #216 C) 26; II, 96, I (Child #63 I) 3: ankle.
quen See queen.
quequer III, 112, (Child #121 A) 51: quiver.
quere III, 250, K (Child #155 K) 7: inquire.
querry, quyrry III, 307, (Child #162 A) 8; 311, 11: quarry, dead game. See quarry.
quest III, 25, (Child #116 A) 69; IV, 11, (Child #191 A) (Child #191 B) 12: inquest.
questry-men another, IV, 11, (Child #191 A) (Child #191 B) 13: men constituting a quest, inquest; but another raises a doubt whether we should not read quest of, as in 12 (ry being caught from jury, above).
queyt III, 112, (Child #121 A) 59: quit, requite. See quite.
quien See queen.
quiles II, 488, (Child #112 D) (Child #112 E) 1, 2: coils, colls, cocks.
quill IV, 213, (Child #219 B) 11: quill, the small round fold of a ruff, seems to be put for the quilled ruff; otherwise, kell, cap (or coul, night-cap, not likely).
quinë-stane, qunie-stane V, 248, 10, 11: (quoin, coin) corner-stone.
quir, queer V, 224, 27: choir.
quirn I, 17, (Child #2 D) 15: hand-mill.
quit II, 283, (Child #86 A) (Child #86 B) 3: ankle. See queet.
quite III, 333, (Child #166 A) 28: requite. See queyt, quyte.
quite III, 431, (Child #178 A) (Child #178 B) 28: free, clear, unpunished.
qunie-stane See quinë-stane.
quoif, coif II, 279, (Child #85 A) 1: cap.
qustens V, 217, a 15: questions.
quyrry III, 307, (Child #162 A) 8: quarry, the slaughtered game. See querry.
quyte þe III, 100, (Child #119 A) 77: acquit thyself, square the account. The other text has, quit me.
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