quaich
shallow bowl-shaped drinking cup with two handles, sometimes with silver mountings, or made entirely of silver.
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quarter day
Candlemas, Lammas, Martinmas and Whitsunday, the days on which bills were settled. These arose out of the Church calendar of feast days. See also term days.
Quarter Seal
the quarter seal was used for more routine royal administrative documents and warrants for the use of the Great Seal, in fact for much the same purposes as the privy seal had been originally used; it was the top half of the Great Seal. One of four royal seals: see also Great Seal, Privy Seal, Signet.
quh…..
is how Scots represented the sound represented in English by the letter ‘w’; for example, quha is ‘who’, and quilk is ‘which’, though it doesn’t always work precisely thus – quhill (while) is ‘until’
quondam
former or deceased.
quot
the twentieth part of the moveable estate of a deceased person, which was originally the due of the bishop in whose diocese he had resided; after the Reformation, it was paid to the commissaries.