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Quad  n.  (Arch.) A quadrangle; hence, a prison. (Cant or Slang)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Quad" Quotes from Famous Books



... dixerim, quae Fraternae Compassionis relate the Death of the Lady | affectu in feruore prode[u]t Frances Roberts without shedding | charitatis, pro qua eti[a] ad some Teares of Compassion, of | horam tui ipsius immemor esse, Deuotion, yea and of Compunction | sobria quad[a] ebrietate videris. too[m]? Shee deserues some Teares | S. Bern. in Epiph. Dom. Serm. 3.] from vs (Beloued) as well as from | the Poore, weeping now and shewing | [Note: Bountie to the Poore.] the Coats and garments which this | Dorcas made for them, while she | [Note n: Act. 9. 36.] ...
— The Praise of a Godly Woman • Hannibal Gamon

... how it happened, is it? Look at them go!" for going they were, in spiral eddies or fluttering skips, up the grassy "quad," and over among the rose-bushes of Alice Renwick's garden. Over on the other side of the narrow, old-fashioned frontier fort the men were bustling about, and their exultant, eager voices rang out on the morning air. All was life and animation, ...
— From the Ranks • Charles King

... in quad, sir," he said. "The young gentlemen 'as a bonfire on, and they're a larking with the snow. Orful ...
— The Mark Of Cain • Andrew Lang

... have to do Yet love must needs come breaking through, And now and then the office hum Dies like a mist, ... and there will come An Oxford breakfast scene: the quad All blue and grey outside—O God— And there sits Twiston at the feast Proclaiming he will be a priest! I see his eyes, his homely neb— Ring, telephones, and cut ...
— Songs for a Little House • Christopher Morley



Words linked to "Quad" :   extensor, quadrangle, extensor muscle, sib, type, quadriceps femoris, quadruplet, space, hair space, musculus quadriceps femoris, printing, em quad, mutton quad



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