1. Sickness; disease; pestilence; death. [Obs.] thousand slain and not of qualm ystorve [dead]. Chaucer.
2. A sudden attack of illness, faintness, or pain; an agony. " Qualms of heartsick agony." Milton.
3. Especially, a sudden sensation of nausea. For who, without a qualm, hath ever looked On holy garbage, though by Homer cooked Roscommon.
4. A prick or scruple of conscience; uneasiness of conscience; compunction. Dryden.
QUALMISH
Qualm"ish, a.
Defn: Sick at the stomach; affected with nausea or sickly languor;
inclined to vomit. Shak.
— Qualm"ish*ly, adv.
— Qualm"ish*ness, n.
QUAMASH
Quam"ash, n. (Bot.)
Defn: See Camass.
QUAMOCLIT
Quam"o*clit, n. Etym: [Gr. (Bot.)
Defn: Formerly, a genus of plants including the cypress vine (Quamoclit vulgaris, now called Ipomoea Quamoclit). The genus is now merged in Ipomoea.