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QUHA-SAY, _s._ A sham, a pretence.
_Leg. St Androis._
Corr. perh. from Lat. _quasi_, as if.
QUHATKYN, QUHATEN. What kind of; S. _whattin_.
V. ~Kin~.
_Barbour._
QUHATSUMEUIR, _adj._ Whatsoever.
_Crosraguel._
_To_ QUHAUK, _v. a._ To beat, S. E.
QUHAUP, _s._ A curlew.
V. ~Quhaip~.
QUHAUP, WHAAP. _There's a whaap in the raip_, S. Prov. There is something wrong.
_Kelly._
QUHAUP, _s._ A pod in the earliest state, S.
_To_ ~Whaup~, or to be ~Whauped~, _v. n._ To a.s.sume the form of pods, S.
B.
_To_ ~Quhaup~, _v. a._ To sh.e.l.l peas, S. B.
_To_ QUHAWCH, _v. n._
V. ~Quaik~.
QUHAWE, _s._ A marsh, a quagmire.
C. B. _chwi_, a whirl; _chwiawg_, full of whirls.
_Wyntown._
QUHEYNE, QUHENE, QUHOYNE, QUHONE, _adj._ Few, S.
_Barbour._
~Quhene~, S. _wheen_, _s._ A small quant.i.ty.
A. S. _hwaene_, _hwene_, aliquantum, paulo.
_To_ QUHEMLE, WHOMMEL, _v. a._ To turn upside down, S. _whummil_.
_b.e.l.l.e.n.den._
Su. G. _hwiml-a_, vertigine laborare.
QUHETHIR, THE QUHETHYR, _conj._ However.
_Barbour._
A. S. _hwaethere_, tamen, attamen.
_To_ QUHETHIR, _v. n._
V. ~Quiddir~.
_To_ QUHEW, _v. n._ To whiz, to whistle.
C. B. _chwaw-iaw_, to blow.
_Burel._
~Quhew~, _s._
1. The sound produced by the motion of any body through the air with velocity; S. B. _few._
_Douglas._
2. A disease which proved extremely fatal in Scotland, A. 1420; occasioned, as would appear from the description, by the unnatural temperature of the weather.
_Fordun._
C. B. _chwa_, _chwaw_, a blast, a gust.
