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QUEEN, n.A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king,and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

QUILL, n.An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonlywielded by an ass.This use of the quill is now obsolete, but itsmodern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlastingPresence.

QUIVER, n.A portable sheath in which the ancient statesman and theaboriginal lawyer carried their lighter arguments.

He extracted from his quiver, Did the controversial Roman, An argument well fitted To the question as submitted, Then addressed it to the liver, Of the unpersuaded foeman.

Oglum P. Boomp

QUIXOTIC, adj.Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote.An insight intothe beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappilydenied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's nameis pronounced Ke-ho-tay.

When ignorance from out of our lives can banish Philology, 'tis folly to know Spanish.

Juan Smith

QUORUM, n.A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body tohave their own way and their own way of having it.In the UnitedStates Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee onFinance and a messenger from the White House; in the House ofRepresentatives, of the Speaker and the devil.

QUOTATION, n.The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

The words erroneously repeated.

Intent on making his quotation truer, He sought the page infallible of Brewer, Then made a solemn vow that we would be Condemned

eternally.Ah, me, ah, me!

Stumpo Gaker

QUOTIENT, n.A number showing how many times a sum of money belongingto one person is contained in the pocket of another -- usually aboutas many times as it can be got there.