Usually means: Showing fear or apprehension visibly.
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  1. quailing: Merriam-Webster
  2. quailing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. quailing: Vocabulary.com
  4. quailing: Wordnik
  5. quailing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. quailing: Wiktionary
  7. quailing: Dictionary.com
  8. quailing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. quailing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quailing: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quailing: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. quailing: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Quailing, quailing: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  The act of one who quails, or draws back in fear.

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