To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint; to lead on.
To waste time; to dally.
equant
equant
adj
Having comparable measurements in all directions; equidimensional.
noun
(obsolete, astronomy) The center of a planetary epicycle.
equate
equate
noun
(programming) A statement in assembly language that defines a symbol having a particular value.
verb
(transitive) To consider equal or equivalent.
(transitive, mathematics) To set as equal.
equipt
equipt
noun
Abbreviation of equipment.
verb
Archaic spelling of equipped.
equity
equity
noun
(accounting) Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from assets.
(business) Ownership, especially in terms of net monetary value of some business.
(law) A right which accrues to a party in a transaction because of the nature of the transaction itself, and which is exercisable upon a change of circumstances or conditions; in other words, an equitable claim.
(law) The power of a court of law having extra-statutory discretion, to decide legal matters and to provide legal relief apart from, though not in violation of, the prevailing legal code; in some cases, a court "sitting in equity" may provide relief to a complainant should the code be found either inapplicable or insufficient to do so.
(law, England) The body of law which was developed in the English Court of Chancery, which Court had extra-statutory discretion, and is now administered alongside the common law of Britain.
(law, finance) Value of property minus liens or other encumbrances.
(nonstandard) Equality
(poker) A player's expected share of the pot.
Fairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right".
liquet
paquet
pequot
pequot
Noun
A member of a tribe of Native Americans who historically inhabited eastern Connecticut and spoke a variety of Mohegan-Pequot.
Proper noun
This tribe.
The variety of Mohegan-Pequot spoken by this tribe.
piquet
piquet
noun
(card games) A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.
(military) Archaic form of picket.
quarte
quarte
noun
(fencing) The fourth defensive position, with the sword hand held at chest height, and the tip of the sword at neck height, the palm of the hand facing upwards.
quatre
quatre
noun
(archaic, dice games, card games, dominoes) A card, die, or domino with four spots or pips.
queest
queest
noun
Archaic form of cushat.
questa
quests
quests
noun
plural of quest
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quest
quetch
quetch
verb
Alternative form of quitch
quethe
quethe
verb
(obsolete except in past tense quoth) To say or declare.
quetta
quetta
Proper noun
A city in the Balochistan Province of Pakistan and capital of the district by that name.
quieta
quieti
quiets
quiets
noun
plural of quiet
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quiet
quinet
quinte
quinte
noun
(fencing) The fifth defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at knee height.
quoted
quoted
verb
simple past tense and past participle of quote
quotee
quotee
noun
Somebody whose words are being quoted.
quoter
quoter
noun
Someone who quotes.
quotes
quotes
noun
Quotation marks.
plural of quote
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of quote
qwerty
qwerty
adj
Alternative letter-case form of QWERTY.
raquet
raquet
noun
Misspelling of racquet.
requit
requit
verb
Obsolete form of requite.
roquet
roquet
noun
In croquet, the act of hitting another live ball with the striker's ball, from which croquet is then taken.
verb
In croquet, to hit another live ball with the striker's ball, from which croquet is then taken.
toques
toques
noun
plural of toque
toquet
toquet
noun
Alternative form of toque (“type of hat”)
torque
torque
noun
(physics, mechanics) A rotational or twisting effect of a force; a moment of force, defined for measurement purposes as an equivalent straight line force multiplied by the distance from the axis of rotation (SI unit newton metre or Nm; imperial unit pound-foot or lb·ft, not to be confused with the foot pound-force, commonly "foot-pound", a unit of work or energy)
A tightly braided necklace or collar, often made of metal, worn by various early European peoples.
verb
(physics, mechanics) To make something rotate about an axis by imparting torque to it.