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Definition of Queest
1. n. The European ringdove (Columba palumbus); the cushat.
Definition of Queest
1. Noun. (archaic form of cushat) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Queest
1. cushat [n -S] - See also: cushat
Medical Definition of Queest
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Queest
Literary usage of Queest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... a wood-pigeon, is in prov. use in various parts of the British Isles (EDD.).
See NED. (sv queest). ..."
2. A History of Philosophy by Johann Eduard Erdmann (1893)
"4; queest. \. 7, i). Human freedom is also just as little in contradiction with
the grace of God as with the divine prescience and predestination, ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"WOOD-QUIST, or WOOD-queest. A wood-pigeon. See queest. Me thought I saw a
stock-dove, or wood-quilt, I know not how to ..."
4. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"WOOD-QUIST, or WOOD-queest. A wood-pigeon. See queest. Me thought 1 saw a
stock-dove, or wood-quilt, I know not how to ..."
5. The Canadian Record of Science by Natural History Society of Montreal (1897)
"Summit of Avalanche Mountain, Selkirk Mts., BC -T. Mt. queest, ... Mount queest,
Shuswap Lake, BC;. mountains at Griffin Lake, BC (Jas. M. Macoun. ..."
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