quail

quail englannista suomeksi

1. viiriäinen

2. pelästyä

1. tutista

2. viiriäinen Old World, amerikanviiriäinen New World

quail englanniksi

1. To waste away; to fade, to wither. (defdate)

2. To daunt or frighten (someone). (defdate)

3. (RQ:Garnier Kyd Cornelia)

4. (RQ:Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra)

5. 1978, (w), ''(novel)|Livia: or, Buried Alive: A Novel'', London; Boston, Mass.: (w), (ISBN); republished in ''(w)'', London: Faber, published 1992, (ISBN), page 358:

To tell the truth the prospect rather quailed him – wandering about in the gloomy corridors of a nunnery.

6. To heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful. (defdate)

7. (RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair)

8. (RQ:Stevenson Jekyll and Hyde)

9. (quote-book)

10. (RQ:Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four)

11. (quote-journal)

12. Of courage, faith, etc.: to slacken, to way. (defdate)

13. (RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)

14. (RQ:Trollope He Knew)

15. (quote-book)|passage=And he commanded his soldiers (..) to frighten them with fierce swords, but the hearts of the holy men did not quail, and they were unable to alter their words.|year=1928|page=220|translator=E. A. Wallis Budge|pageurl=https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/The_Book_of_the_Saints_of_the_Ethiopian/-0PZAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA220|volume=1|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=London

16. Any of various small birds of the genera (taxfmt), (taxfmt) or (taxfmt) in the World family (taxfmt) or of the World family (taxfmt).

17. The meat from this bird eaten as food.

18. A prostitute.

19. To curdle or coagulate, as milk does.