2. To examine thoroughly and with despatch.
First Thatcher, then Hadley, then Larned and Prex, Each put our class through in succession. Presentation Day Songs, June 14, 1854.
Q.
Q. See CUE.
QUAD. An abbreviation of QUADRANGLE, q.v.
How silently did all come down the staircases into the chapel quad, that evening!—Collegian's Guide, p. 88.
His mother had been in Oxford only the week before, and had been seen crossing the quad in tears.—Ibid., p. 144.
QUADRANGLE. At Oxford and Cambridge, Eng., the rectangular courts in which the colleges are constructed.
Soon as the clouds divide, and dawning day
Tints the quadrangle with its earliest ray.
The College, in Blackwood's Mag., May, 1849.
QUARTER-DAY. The day when quarterly payments are made. The day that completes three months.