- noun
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- small bird, similar to a partridge [Barron]
- lose courage, turn frightened [Nandigam]
More word meanings for quail
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- Wiktionary:
- quail @ wiktionary
- WordNet:
- quail @ wordnet.princeton.edu
- Merriam-Webster Online:
- quail @ M-W.com
- MSN Encarta:
- quail @ Encarta
- American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language:
- quail @ AHD provided by Yahoo! Education
- Answers.com:
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